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George Frey/Getty Images (FAIRBANKS, ALASKA) -- An Air Force F-35 fighter jet crashed at Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska on Tuesday as the pilot ejected safely, officials said.The aircraft incident occurred on Tuesday afternoon at approximately 12:49 p.m. and resulted in “significant aircraft damage,” according to a statement released by 354th Fighter Wing Public Affairs.The impact site is known to be on base within the fence line of Eielson […]

(NEW YORK) -- America’s fourth and eighth grade students’ sliding reading scores worsened in 2024, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, which has been dubbed the nation’s report card.“The nation's report card is out and the news is not good,” National Center for Education Statistics Commissioner Peggy G. Carr said on a call with reporters on Tuesday.“Students are not where they need to be or where we want […]

(WASHINGTON) -- A person arrested outside of the Capitol with a knife and two potential incendiary devices told officers they wanted to kill Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and also leveled threats against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and House Speaker Mike Johnson, according to newly unsealed charging documents.Ryan English allegedly approached officers outside the Capitol on Monday and said, "I'd like to turn myself in," and then told the officers they […]

KGO (VALLEJO, Calif.) -- A California school was forced to cancel classes until further notice after its copper wiring was stolen, knocking out power to the property.Repairs at the Solano Widenmann Leadership Academy are expected to take about a week, but if the school needs to be closed for longer, the district will arrange alternate student placements, according to the school."Students have been set up with alternative learning hubs or […]

(NEW YORK) -- South Carolina schools are facing a lawsuit over restrictions on what can be taught about racial inequality in K-12 public schools.The state's Budget Proviso 1.79 states that no state funding should go toward certain "concepts" touching on race or sex -- including unconscious racism, sexism or other form of oppression.Among the restrictions, the budget prohibits anything that causes "an individual should feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any […]

(NEW YORK) -- Presidential immunity does not protect Donald Trump from having to pay tens of millions of dollars in damages after being held liable for defaming magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll, a lawyer for Carroll told a federal appeals court in a filing Monday.After being awarded an $83.3 million defamation judgment from a jury last year, Carroll on Monday urged the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to uphold the judgment […]

(NEW YORK) -- A man who was pushed onto New York City subway tracks in the path of an oncoming train is recounting the harrowing, near-death experience that left him with a fractured skull, four broken ribs and a ruptured spleen."I just thought, 'I've been pushed and I'm going to die,'" Joe Lynskey, 45, told ABC News' "Good Morning America" in a broadcast exclusive interview.Lynskey had just finished a New Year's Eve […]

(KILAUEA, HI) -- One of the world’s most active volcanoes, located in Kilauea, Hawaii, erupted for the seventh time since December, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.At approximately 1:30 p.m. local time Monday, the volcano released a "small, sporadic splatter foundation," which then continued to increase in intensity until 6:41 p.m., when the eruptions began."Episode 7 of the ongoing Halema’uma’u eruption began at 6:42 p.m. HST on Jan. 27 and […]

Mateusz Slodkowski/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (NEW YORK) -- Google announced Tuesday that it plans to update the names of two major geographical landmarks in accordance with an executive order from President Donald Trump.The tech giant said in an X post it plans to update the name of Alaska's Denali mountain to Mt. McKinley and the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America."We have a longstanding practice of applying […]