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(NEW YORK) -- More than 2,000 flights have been canceled across the U.S. on Monday as airlines catch up from a rough weekend, winter weather conditions slam parts of the country and the Federal Aviation Administration continues to limit capacity at 40 major U.S. airports, with President Donald Trump threatening air traffic controllers to "get back to work, NOW!!!""All Air Traffic Controllers must get back to work, NOW!!! Anyone who doesn't will be substantially […]

(NEW YORK) -- Rep. Jamie Raskin sent a sharply worded six-page letter to President Donald Trump on Sunday following new information his committee received from a whistleblower alleging that Ghislaine Maxwell is preparing a "commutation application" for the Trump administration and receiving preferential treatment while incarcerated.Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, accused the Trump administration of allowing "a corrupt misuse of law-enforcement resources" and demanded that Deputy […]

(WASHINGTON) -- Amid efforts to end the ongoing government shutdown, the Trump administration has informed the Supreme Court that it intends to continue seeking a stay of a lower court's order requiring full payment of November SNAP benefits.That order remains on hold following a late-Friday night administrative action by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. Solicitor General John Sauer told the court that if the government reopens, its request would become moot -- but in the meantime, the […]

(NEW YORK) -- More than 1,600 flights have been canceled across the U.S. on Monday as the Federal Aviation Administration limits capacity at 40 major U.S. airports, with President Donald Trump threatening air traffic controllers to "get back to work, NOW!!!""All Air Traffic Controllers must get back to work, NOW!!! Anyone who doesn't will be substantially 'docked,'" Trump said in a social media post on Monday.In addition to the 1,656 flights canceled […]

Snow Potential - Through Wednesday Map (ABC News) (NEW YORK) -- The first snow of the season struck the Midwest this weekend, and more snow is on the way for the North in the next few days while freeze warnings hit the South.The snow forecastVery heavy snow -- at rates of 2 inches per hour -- fell overnight in Valparaiso, Indiana, with more than 9 inches of snow reported as […]

Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG (NEW YORK) -- More than 1,500 flights were canceled across the country early on Monday amid the Federal Aviation Administration's limiting capacity at 40 major U.S. airports.Another 881 flights were expected to be delayed on Monday, according to FlightAware, an airline traffic tracker, which also logged some 1,509 cancellations for flights within, into or out of the United States.The travel chaos, which comes amid […]

Grant Baldwin/Getty Images (NEW YORK) -- Nationwide flight disruption stretched into Sunday following cancellations or delays to thousands of flights on Saturday, as the Federal Aviation Administration limited capacity at 40 major U.S. airports amid the longest government shutdown in American history.As of 5:30 a.m. ET on Sunday, more than 1,100 flights were cancelled across the country according to the FlightAware website, as the FAA grappled with sustained staffing issues […]

FDNY (NEW YORK) -- Patrick Brady, a New York City firefighter, had a "medical episode" while battling a five-alarm fire in Brooklyn on Saturday and later died at the hospital, officials said.Brady, 42, was an 11-year veteran of the department, FDNY Commissioner Robert S. Tucker said in a joint press release with Mayor Eric Adams."Firefighter Patrick Brady gave his life protecting the city we all love; there is no sacrifice […]

(NEW YORK) -- There is a paragraph on page 22 of the Trump administration's appeal of a federal judge's requirement that it make full November SNAP payments that has to be seen to be believed.The opening sentence asserts that "the district court's order threatens significant and irreparable harm to the government which outweighs any claimed injury to plaintiffs."In plain English, the Justice Department is telling the court that it would […]