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Minutes after takeoff Friday, a Southwest flight leaving Burbank, California, rapidly descended because another aircraft was in the area, injuring two flight attendants and frightening passengers, according to officials and those on board.“Southwest Airlines Flight 1496 responded to an onboard alert that another aircraft was in the vicinity while in Los Angeles Air Route Traffic Control Center airspace,” the Federal Aviation Administration said. The incident occurred around 11 a.m.Two onboard alerts required the flight “to climb and descend,” Southwest Airlines said in a statement.An aviation industry source told NBC News the Southwest crew was initially told to climb to 15,000…

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Anne Burrell, the Food Network chef beloved for her wit and talent in the kitchen, died by suicide last month after being found unresponsive in her Brooklyn home, New York officials said Thursday.The cause of death was confirmed by New York City’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, citing acute intoxication from multiple substances.Without identifying Burrell, the fire department said that it responded to her address at 7:50 a.m. on the morning of June 17 for a report of cardiac arrest. She was declared dead upon arrival.Burrell loved the culinary arts since childhood, watching her mother and Julia Child as…

The State Department said Wednesday that it launched an investigation into Harvard University’s compliance with the government-run visa program for international students, marking the latest effort by the Trump administration to prevent the university from enrolling international students.Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement that the State Department would be scrutinizing Harvard’s sponsorship eligibility under the Exchange Visitor Program certification — also known as the J-1 visa program — which allows foreign students to participate in exchange programs in the United States. The secretary of state noted that all sponsors of the program “must comply with all regulations,…

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Malcolm-Jamal Warner, best known for starring in “The Cosby Show,” has died. He was 54.Warner drowned after being swept out to sea in Costa Rica, according to authorities there.Costa Rica’s Judicial Investigation Department confirmed to NBC News on Monday that Warner drowned Sunday afternoon on a beach on Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast. He was swimming at Playa Cocles in Limon province when a current dragged him deeper into the ocean, the department said in a statement. He was pulled back to the beach by people at the scene, but first responders from Costa Rica’s Red Cross found him without vital…

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Three veteran Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies, who specialize in arson and explosives, were killed when military-style ordnance detonated at a training facility on Friday morning, authorities said.The department had picked up two explosives overnight in the L.A. County community of Lakewood and took them back to the department’s training facility in East L.A., law enforcement sources told NBC News.One of those two military-style devices exploded, killing the three deputies.It wasn’t immediately clear why the explosives had to be moved to the East L.A. locale. The explosives could’ve been rendered safe at the scene or handled more securely in a…

The Trump administration will start sharing the personal information of nearly 79 million Medicaid enrollees, including home addresses and ethnicities, with federal immigration authorities as President Donald Trump seeks to ramp up deportations.In a statement to NBC News on Thursday, Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin described the latest data-sharing agreement between her agency and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services as “an initiative” to ensure undocumented immigrants don’t access Medicaid benefits.The Associated Press first reported the new agreement, which hasn’t been made public yet.Immigrants who lack legal immigration status and some lawfully present immigrants are already barred…