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U.S. Military Plane and JetBlue Flight Nearly Collided Over Caribbean, Radio Traffic Shows

The Air Force refueling tanker was flying without its location transponder activated and could not be detected by air traffic control.

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A U.S. Air Force air-to-air refueling tanker took off from an airport in St. Croix in late November. A similar type of aircraft nearly collided with a JetBlue flight on Friday over the Caribbean, according to air traffic control radio communications.
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José Antonio Kast Elected President of Chile

José Antonio Kast won the race on Sunday after a contest marked by concerns over security and immigration.

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José Antonio Kast with supporters after voting in Paine, Chile, on Sunday.
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His Job Is to Make the Subway Accessible. His Own Life Fuels His Work.

Quemuel Arroyo, the New York transit system’s chief accessibility officer, has used a wheelchair for half his life. He understands how difficult it is to navigate the subway.

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Quemuel Arroyo lobbies for billions of dollars to build new subway elevators, knowing that two-thirds of stations do not have them.
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Happy holidays: Married women reap more from the festive season than singles

The urban illuminati imagine friends can simply replace family during Yuletide, but there’s no place like home for the holidays. Modern feminists have waged war against motherhood and family life for more than 60 years. They’ve stigmatized wives and mothers as oppressed, bored women leading meaningless lives of self-annihilation, celebrating choice as the ultimate virtue....

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US immigration crackdown forces teens to caretake after parents are detained

As federal agents target families, teens are left to care for siblings – from accessing bank accounts to medical records

Vilma Cruz, a mother of two, had just arrived at her newly leased Louisiana home when federal agents surrounded her vehicle in the driveway. She had just enough time to call her oldest son before they smashed the passenger window and detained her.

The 38-year-old Honduran house painter was swept up in an immigration crackdown that has largely targeted Kenner, a New Orleans suburb with a large Hispanic population, where some parents at risk of deportation had rushed to arrange emergency custody plans for their children in case they were arrested.

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© Photograph: Adam Gray/AFP/Getty Images

© Photograph: Adam Gray/AFP/Getty Images

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Grieving Iowa police chief reveals son was one of 3 US soldiers killed in Syria: ‘Cruel world’

An Iowa police chief has posted a heartbreaking post identifying his son as one of the three Iowa Army National Guard soldiers killed in an ISIS attack in Syria. “My wife Misty and I had that visit from Army Commanders you never want to have,” wrote Meskwaki Nation Police Department Chief Jeffrey Bunn in a...

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