Lawyers for the passenger dragged from a United Airlines plane in Chicago filed an emergency request with an Illinois state court on Wednesday to require the carrier to preserve video recordings and other evidence related to the incident.
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A road rage suspect who led authorities on a high-speed chase through Southern California has been arrested after sideswiping cars and spinning out on a freeway shoulder.
Shane Richardson, 27, of Bullhead City, faces a 15-year prison term under a plea deal for causing the alcohol-related accident in February 2016.
The widow of the gunman who killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to aiding her husband in the June 2016 killings.
Nigerian security officials have thwarted plans by Islamic State group-linked Boko Haram members to attack the embassies of the United States and Britain, authorities said Wednesday.
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Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada is one of 21 Democratic senators who demanded answers from the airline’s CEO on Tuesday about the treatment of a ticketed passenger dragged from a flight from Chicago to Louisville, Kentucky.
United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz on Wednesday underlined his remorse in an interview with ABC’s “Good Morning America,” saying he felt “ashamed” when he saw videos of a passenger getting dragged off a full United Express flight by airport police.
Relations between the United States and Russia are at a low point with a low level of trust, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Wednesday after meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
The arduous work of snow surveyors is largely unknown to most Californians, even as measurements they compiled of a near-record snowpack bolstered Gov. Jerry Brown’s decision last week to lift an emergency declaration after five years of drought.
For months, investigators have listened to 26 hours of conversations of the El Faro’s crew, captured by the ship’s voyage data recorder as they rode to their doom. The 790-foot ship sank on Oct. 1, 2015, after losing propulsion in Hurricane Joaquin. The bodies of the crew were never found
David Letterman’s mother Dorothy Mengering, a Midwestern homemaker who became an unlikely celebrity in her 70s as she baked mystery pies and covered the Olympics for her son’s late-night show, has died. She was 95.