13 h. ago Thousands of US health agency workers laid off in overhaul led by RFK Jr

Trump administration begins reducing Health and Human Services workforce as Kennedy plans up to 10,000 job cutsThousands of Health and Human Services (HHS) employees across the country are being dismissed on Tuesday as the Trump administration begins implementing its workforce-reduction plan, which could ultimately remove 10,000 staff members from the department through forced layoffs.The job cuts mark the first tangible impact of the health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr’s departmental overhaul announced last week, landing just days after Donald Trump moved to strip collective-bargaining rights from workers at HHS and other federal agencies. Continue reading...

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42 h. ago Police confiscate child’s kite after collision with United Airlines plane as it lands at Washington DC airport

Federal regulations prohibit kite-flying near an airport

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2 d. ago United flight collides with a kite in latest incident at Reagan National Airport

A United Airlines flight collided with a kite as it tried to land at Reagan National Airport in the latest of the airport's incidents.

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3 d. ago Brooke Hogan's husband Steven Oleksy takes savage shots at Hulk Hogan and Linda amid family feud

Former NHL player Steven Oleksy has taken to social media to defend his wife, Brooke Hogan, from the numerous attacks on her character by her mother Linda amid a furious war of words.

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4 d. ago Trump moves to officially close USAID and tells remaining employees their jobs will be eliminated

After months of attempting to remove responsibility, funding and staff from the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Trump administration moved to effectively close it down on Friday

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5 d. ago United Airlines flight forced into sudden diversion back to London after mid

A ‘mechanical issue’ made the Boeing 767 touch back down at Heathrow

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6 d. ago United Airlines Flight 147 Makes Emergency Landing at London Heathrow: New updates you need to know

United Airlines Flight 147 Makes Emergency Landing at London Heathrow: New updates you need to know  Travel And Tour World

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6 d. ago Passenger plane forced to divert to another airport after pilot forgot passport

A United Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Shanghai landed in San Francisco after two hours because of the blunder

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7 d. ago Flight forced to divert after pilot realises they forgot their passport

Passengers were taken off the plane and forced to take a later service

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8 d. ago United Airlines flight to China forced to turn around as pilot forgot passport

The approximately 300-capacity aeroplane was in the air for one hour and 45 minutes before the flight turned around over the Pacific Ocean due to a 'crew-related issue'

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8 d. ago United flight forced to divert after pilot realises they forgot their passport

Passengers were taken off the plane and forced to take a later service

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8 d. ago Mother furious as United Airlines staff try to remove son’s ventilator before flight take

The crew asked Melissa Sotomayor to put medical equipment ‘keeping her son alive’ underneath the seat before takeoff

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1 week ago United pilot attacks passenger for taking too long in the bathroom, lawsuit alleges

Yisroel Liebb of New Jersey claims pilot broke lock and pulled him out with his pants down, leaving him exposedAn Orthodox Jewish passenger says a United Airlines pilot forcibly removed him from an airplane bathroom while he was experiencing constipation, exposing his genitalia to other flyers during a flight from Tulum, Mexico, to Houston.Yisroel Liebb, of New Jersey, described his trip through allegedly unfriendly skies in a federal lawsuit this week against the airline and the US Department of Homeland Security, whose officers he said boarded the plane upon landing and took him away in handcuffs. Continue reading...

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1 week ago United pilot attacked passenger for taking too long in the bathroom, lawsuit alleges

Yisroel Liebb of New Jersey claims pilot broke lock and pulled him out with his pants down, leaving him exposedAn Orthodox Jewish passenger says a United Airlines pilot forcibly removed him from an airplane bathroom while he was experiencing constipation, exposing his genitalia to other flyers during a flight from Tulum, Mexico, to Houston.Yisroel Liebb, of New Jersey, described his trip through allegedly unfriendly skies in a federal lawsuit this week against the airline and the US Department of Homeland Security, whose officers he said boarded the plane upon landing and took him away in handcuffs. Continue reading...

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1 week ago The Latest: Hundreds of thousands of passengers face flight cancelations as Heathrow closes

Britain’s Heathrow Airport has closed for the full day Friday after an electrical substation fire knocked out its power, disrupting flights for hundreds of thousands of passengers at one of Europe’s biggest travel hubs

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1 week ago United pilot attacked ‘constipated’ passenger and had him arrested for hogging the bathroom, lawsuit says

Exclusive: An Orthodox Jewish traveler says he was yanked off the toilet with his trousers down and subjected to an antisemitic tirade while nearby passengers gawked

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1 week ago ‘Constipated’ flyer claims enraged United Airlines pilot had him arrested for hogging the bathroom

Exclusive: An Orthodox Jewish traveler says he was yanked off the toilet with his pants down and subjected to an antisemitic tirade while nearby passengers gawked

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1 week ago Moment furious Indiana mother boards school bus to brutally beat son's 14

A 36-year-old mom has been hit with several charges, including battery and criminal trespassing, after she allegedly boarded the bus with her son and teen daughter and attacked the boy.

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1 week ago Three dead as dessert supplied to NHS hospitals and care homes linked to a listeria outbreak

NHS staff advised to remove all products from Cool Delight Desserts as a precaution

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2 w. ago Trump administration may fire more than 1,000 EPA scientists and scrap research office, Democrats say

The potential layoffs listed in documents reviewed by Democrats are part of the White House'’s broader push to shrink the federal governmentThe Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans to eliminate its scientific research office and could fire more than 1,000 scientists and other employees who help provide the scientific foundation for rules safeguarding human health and ecosystems from environmental pollutants.As many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists – 75% of the research programme’s staff – could be laid off, according to documents reviewed by Democratic staff on the house committee on science, space and technology. Continue reading...

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