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Years ago, Mr. Cox said, he was descending in a Boeing 737 over Orlando International Airport when the system alerted him and his co-pilot to traffic nearby. The pilots looked around for another aircraft, but saw nothing. Then, TCAS provided an urgent instruction: “Climb.” Mr. Cox said they did so and later saw a smaller aircraft beneath them. A collision would have been catastrophic, he said.After a series of collisions, culminating in the 1986 crash of a passenger jet and smaller aircraft near Cerritos, Calif., that killed 82 people, Congress instructed the Federal Aviation Administration to require TCAS on all…

“When you were confronted about this accusation, you said you were, quote, not a church boy, and that you, quote, have so many skeletons in my closet. You then texted Miss Cooney an apology and indicated you had no memory of what you described,” Ms. Murray said, asking pointedly whether he had made sexual advances.“No, I did not,” Mr. Kennedy said. He added that the account had been debunked, without offering information to substantiate his claim. Ms. Murray asked why he had apologized. “I apologized for something else,” he replied.(In the text, whose contents were reported by news organizations including…

Billie Eilish and Green Day kicked off the show with a duet. Joni Mitchell made a rare public appearance. Katy Perry pranced around the stage waving a state flag as she belted the 2010 banger, “California Gurls.”Over almost six hours, on two arena stages in South Los Angeles, more than two dozen of the biggest names in pop music gathered for FireAid, a star-studded benefit to raise money for relief efforts after the devastating wildfires across the region.“As far as I’m concerned,” Anderson .Paak told the crowd, “This is one of the greatest nights in Los Angeles history.”It was a…

With the signing of the Window in January, a 78 -year -old American track and field coach is unconventional. For Manchester United and Ruben Amorim, even if it is not the coach’s phone, it is actually very meaningful. On the basis of consulting, Harry Marra (Harry Marra) took a few weeks to effectively cover the ground to effectively improve the unity and unified unity.Marra (Marra) graduated from Syracuse University in 1974. He obtained a master’s degree in sports and sports science. He coaches the coach Decathlete Ashton Eaton at the Olympic Games (London, 2012, 2016, 2016, 2016. Rio (RIO), 2016)…

He blocked Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.He signed a censorship law that led TikTok to disable its functions.President Vladimir V. Putin has clamped down on free expression in Russia to a degree unseen since the Soviet era. Now he is taking aim at the last Western tech platform barely standing in wartime Russia: YouTube.Mr. Putin has not formally banned the U.S. video platform that has more than 2.5 billion users worldwide. But the site has angered Russian authorities, who view the platform as an uncontrollable gateway to antiwar content. They have also decried YouTube for removing Russian propaganda channels as well…

Clues emerging from the moments before the deadly collision Wednesday night between an Army helicopter and an American Airlines passenger jet suggest that multiple layers of the country’s aviation safety apparatus failed, according to flight recordings, a preliminary internal report from the Federal Aviation Administration, interviews with current and former air traffic controllers and others briefed on the matter.The helicopter flew outside its approved flight path. The American Airlines pilots most likely did not see the helicopter close by as they made a turn toward the runway. And the air traffic controller, who was juggling two jobs at the same…

The older he gets, the more Bill Gates is surprised by what the world dishes up.Take billionaires. There are many now from the tech industry, quite a few with politics that skew forcefully right.“I always thought of Silicon Valley as being left of center,” Mr. Gates said. “The fact that now there is a significant right-of-center group is a surprise to me.”Or take the evolution of technology in the decades since he began Microsoft and made it one of the world’s most valuable companies.“Incredible things happened because of sharing information on the internet,” Mr. Gates said. That much he anticipated.…

Loretta Ford, who co-founded the first academic program for nurse practitioners in 1965, then spent decades transforming the field of nursing into an area of serious clinical practice, education and research, died on Jan. 22 at her home in Wildwood, Fla. She was 104.Her daughter, Valerie Monrad, confirmed the death.Today there are more than 350,000 nurse practitioners in America; it is one of the fastest growing fields, and last year U.S. News and World Report ranked it the top job in the country, a reflection of salary potential, job satisfaction and career opportunities.That success is in large part the result…

Vilas Thanna, the father of Pongsak Thanna, a Thai fruit farmhand who was held hostage in Gaza, could barely get the words out as he digested the news of his son’s release after 15 months of captivity.“When we are happy, we cry,” he said. “When we are sad, we also cry. But these are happy tears.”Mr. Pongsak was among five Thai hostages who were released on Thursday. Working on farms in often dangerous parts of Israel, Thai farmhands suffered a heavy toll in the Hamas-led attacks of Oct. 7, 2023. At least 39 were killed, and at least 31 were…

California Chevrolet-Palisades Charter High School joint venture baseball team is crowded in its full outdoor field of its temporary houses, which is a temporary venue for the displaced team. The playful surface and outer grass are spots and unhealthy. Without the pier, its main purpose is for the battleball.But this is what they must cooperate with them. The tragic environment-a fire swept their school and the city-there is almost no relationship between them reaching this place. What is important? The university captain Ryan Hirschberg was dissatisfied with the efforts and concentration of junior college students in common practice.Herbeir told the…