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(PHILADELPHIA) -- The black box from the medical transport jet that crashed in Philadelphia Friday evening is on its way to Washington, D.C., where the National Transportation Safety Board will try to extricate any information, Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker said during a press conference Monday.The jet, which was carrying a child and her mother along with four other people, was in the air for less than a minute after taking […]

(WASHINGTON) -- President Donald Trump's executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship will face its next legal hurdle this week when three separate federal judges hold hearings to consider whether to block the order.Ahead of the hearings, lawyers with the Department of Justice argued in legal filings that birthright citizenship creates a "perverse incentive for illegal immigration" while claiming that Trump's executive order attempts to resolve "prior misimpressions" of the […]

George Rose/Getty Images (ZION NATIONAL PARK, Utah) -- A 37-year-old man fell to his death while hiking at Zion National Park in Utah, authorities confirmed.The hiker was found dead Sunday morning on the Canyon Overlook Trail, a mile-long trail that runs along the east side of the park, according to the National Park Service.Authorities received a call at 7:06 a.m. reporting a “possible fall of a hiker in Zion National Park,” according […]

(WASHINGTON) -- Sixty-seven people are dead after a regional jet collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter Wednesday night over Washington, D.C., officials said, the nation's first major commercial airline crash since 2009.The aircraft went down in the frigid Potomac River, breaking into multiple pieces. There were no survivors.There were 64 passengers aboard the plane and three Army soldiers in the helicopter.Among the victims were 14 people who were returning home from a national […]