A near collision between two aircraft was avoided earlier Thursday at Washington, D.C.’s Reagan National Airport.  JetBlue and Southwest Airlines airplanes avoided each other by only 400 feet. Air traffic control recordings show controllers yelling at the JetBlue flight to stop its takeoff as the Southwest flight began taxiing on the runway.  “An air traffic

Israel has fired missiles at at least one site in Iran, according to multiple reports, less than a week after Iran attacked the Jewish state. A U.S. official confirmed to ABC News that Israeli missiles were sent toward Iran’s airspace, but they did not say what the site was nor whether anyone was injured or

Former New York Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin said his historically strong blue state of New York is up for grabs for presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump in the general election.  Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s handling of Trump’s criminal hush money case is helping Trump in New York City, according to Zeldin. By the former

The Prussian general and strategist Carl von Clausewitz famously said that “war is the continuation of policy with other means.”  But that was in the 1830s. Here in 2024, we’re much more civilized: We do our political warfare in the courts.  Beginning with the rise of the progressive prosecutors and continuing with the unprecedented weaponization

President Joe Biden has spent the last six months fervently trying to prevent the Middle East from devolving into a regional war. Yet Iran’s drone and missile attack on Israel threatens to do exactly that. His administration maintains that the United States does not seek a direct conflict with Iran and that it will continue

The most glowing admirers and fiercest detractors of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) agree on one thing — his ability to move the federal judiciary in a more conservative direction. McConnell is set to step down from his leadership post after the November elections, capping a record 18 years as party leader, six heading

For those of us who grew up in the 1980s and ’90s, Lynne Reid Banks’s Indian in the Cupboard novels held something of the same appeal as Steven Spielberg’s E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial or The Goonies. Each centers on smart, sensitive children who happen upon something secret and unshareable with the grown-up world: a space creature