20 hours ago Investigators recover black boxes from doomed American Airlines Flight 5342 as they hunt for answers: Live updates

LIVE UPDATES: Sixty passengers, four crew, and three US Army personnel are believed to be dead after the collision 400ft over the Potomac River in Washington DC.

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5 hours ago Each of the young figure skaters killed in the D.C. plane crash had a story waiting to be told

The young figure skaters whose lives were cut tragically short when an American Airlines flight collided with an Army helicopter and crashed into the Potomac River on Wednesday night were just beginning their journeys to stardom

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24 hours ago From Godard to Coppola, Van Sant to Anger, Marianne Faithfull was a dazzling magnet for film

The music star was also an electrifying screen presence, from The Girl on a Motorcycle to Marie AntoinetteMarianne Faithfull, singular icon of British pop, dies aged 78Marianne Faithfull was a towering artist, not just the muse she was painted asOn the screen and also in life, Marianne Faithfull experienced something similar to her contemporary Anita Pallenberg – the condescension of being treated like an icon or a muse. Maybe her very real success in music ruled her out of a serious acting career in the eyes of some, but Faithfull for a while occupied the epicentre of the late-60s pop culture zeitgeist, for an intense flashbulb moment she found herself in the overlapping worlds of music, movies and the explodingly important world of celebrity itself.The famous photograph of her in 1967 on a couch between Alain Delon and Mick Jagger absolutely captures her magnetism: Delon is entranced by her, Jagger (her boyfriend) is jealous, looking grumpily down: she and Delon were starring toge...

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15 hours ago DC crash investigators recover cockpit voice recorder and flight data from doomed American Airlines plane: Live updates

LIVE UPDATES: Sixty passengers, four crew, and three US Army personnel are believed to be dead after the collision 400ft over the Potomac River in Washington DC.

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27 hours ago Marianne Faithfull was a towering artist, not just the muse she was painted as

The late singer made her share of bad decisions – but someone this artistically adventurous and unafraid was never going to have an ordinary life• News: Marianne Faithfull, singular icon of British pop, dies aged 78It is difficult to think of a moment in pop history less receptive to a 1960s icon relaunching their career than in 1979. At that point, British rock and pop resolutely inhabited a world shaped by punk: it was the year of 2-Tone and Tubeway Army’s Are ‘Friends’ Electric?, of Ian Dury at No 1 and Blondie releasing the bestselling album of the year. And it was a central tenet of punk that the 1960s and their attendant “culture freaks” were, as Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren put it: “fucking disgusting vampiric the most narcissistic generation there has ever been,” and that the decade’s famous names should no longer be afforded the kind of awed reverence they had enjoyed for most of the 70s. “No Elvis, Beatles or the Rolling Stones,” as the Clash had sung.And yet Marian...

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29 hours ago American Airlines plane crash LIVE: Trump says 'country in mourning' after jet collides with helicopter and crashes into Washington DC river

Top skaters feared dead as rescuers search Potomac River after American Airlines flight collides with Black Hawk helicopter

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30 hours ago Watch live: Trump speaks after American Airlines plane and military helicopter crash

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31 hours ago Watch live: Defense secretary addresses nation as 67 passengers feared dead after American Airlines jet collides with military helicopter

Watch live as defense secretary Pete Hegseth addresses the nation after 67 passengers are feared dead after an American Airlines jet collided with a military helicopter..

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32 hours ago American Airlines plane crash LIVE: 'No survivors' after jet collides with helicopter and crashes into Washington DC river

Top skaters feared dead as rescuers search Potomac River after American Airlines flight collides with Black Hawk helicopter

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34 hours ago American Airlines plane crash LIVE: 'More than 30' bodies pulled from freezing Washington DC river after mid

Top skaters feared dead as rescuers search Potomac River after American Airlines flight collides with Black Hawk helicopter

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36 hours ago American Airlines plane crash LIVE: Russian figure skaters among scores feared dead on flight that crashed into Washington DC river

American Airlines flight from Kansas crashes into Potomac River after colliding with Black Hawk helicopter as it approached Reagan Washington National Airport

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37 hours ago American Airlines plane crash LIVE: 19 bodies recovered from wreckage after flight hits military helicopter

American Airlines confirmed 60 passengers and four crew members were aboard the passenger jet.

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38 hours ago American Airlines plane crash LIVE: Mass fatalities as aircraft crashes into Washington DC river after colliding with Black Hawk helicopter

American Airlines flight from Kansas crashes into Potomac River after colliding with Black Hawk helicopter as it approached Reagan Washington National Airport

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39 hours ago Washington plane crash LIVE as 'multiple killed' in American Airlines flight crash with Army helicopter

Sixty passengers and four crew members were on board the crash at Ronald Reagan National Airport

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39 hours ago American Airlines crash LIVE: Plane carrying 60 passengers crashes into river after mid

American Airlines flight from Kansas crashes into Potomac River after colliding with Black Hawk helicopter as it approached Reagan Washington National Airport

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42 hours ago Ronald Reagan Airport crash LIVE: American Airlines plane and military helicopter in horror smash in Washington DC

Ronald Reagan National Airport is closed following a collision between an American Airlines plane and a military helicopter near the hub in Washington DC, which happened late on Wednesday

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