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SEOUL, South Korea — There were two survivors and 177 confirmed dead in a commercial airplane crash Sunday at a South Korean airport, officials said. There were 181 passengers and crew onboard, and two remain unaccounted for.The Jeju Air flight 2216 skidded off the runway while landing at Muan International Airport in South Korea, bursting into flames after crashing, a spokesperson for the country’s National Fire Agency said. The airport is about 180 miles south of Seoul.The Boeing 787-800 took off from Bangkok, Thailand, shortly after 2 a.m. local time (2 p.m. Saturday ET), according to the flight-tracking platform FlightAware. It…

Greg Gumbel, a longtime CBS Sports broadcaster, has died of cancer, his family said Friday. He was 78.Gumbel, a play-by-play announcer and studio host who previously worked for NBC Sports, “passed away peacefully surrounded by much love after a courageous battle with cancer,” his family said in a statement released by CBS Sports.The statement was signed by his wife, Marcy, and daughter, Michelle.”Greg approached his illness like one would expect he would, with stoicism, grace and positivity,” the statement says. “He leaves behind “a legacy of love, inspiration and dedication to over 50 extraordinary years in the sports broadcast industry.”Gumbel,…

Hudson Meek, a teen actor best known for his work in “Baby Driver,” died after he fell from a moving vehicle in Alabama, officials said. He was 16.Meek sustained blunt force injuries when he fell from the motor vehicle in his hometown, Vestavia Hills, the Jefferson County Medical Examiner’s Office told NBC News on Thursday. He was injured Dec. 19 and died at UAB Hospital on Saturday.The Vestavia Hills Police Department is investigating the circumstances surrounding his death, the office said. The incident happened in the 1900 block of Canyon Road in Vestavia Hills, a suburb south of Birmingham.A post…

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The special prosecutor in the involuntary manslaughter case against Alec Baldwin in the deadly shooting on the set of the movie “Rust” has withdrawn an attempt to reinstate charges, a New Mexico district attorney said Monday.In a statement, First Judicial District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies said the special prosecutor, Kari Morrissey, withdrew the state’s notice of appeal, which would have sought to reinstate charges against Baldwin that had been dismissed by a lower court.In the summer, a judge dismissed the involuntary manslaughter case against Baldwin, who was holding a prop gun on the set near Santa Fe in October 2021 when…

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MUNICH — German authorities said on Saturday that the death toll had risen five people, and over 200 injured from a car-ramming attack on a Christmas market in eastern Germany.The car plowed 1200 feet into a crowd in the narrow alley where shoppers had gathered Friday night. The suspected driver, identified as a doctor from Saudi Arabia who lived in Germany, was detained, said Reiner Haseloff, premier of the state of Saxony-Anhalt.The suspect acted alone, and there was no ongoing threat to the public, he said. Officials have not given more information about a possible motive.The victims include at least one…

The job was considered impossible: Clear 17 million pieces of backlogged mail. In a war zone. Maj. Charity Adams knew it was a mission that could not fail, not just for the sake of morale of World War II troops, but also for the reputation of Black people in the eyes of the country’s top military brass. The real-life efforts of the 855 women of the Women Army Corps’ 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion are captured in Tyler Perry’s latest film, “Six Triple Eight,” streaming now on Netflix. To Kerry Washington, who portrays Adams, the battalion’s ability to resolve an ongoing problem…