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Seven killed as private jet crashes during takeoff at Maine airport

Few details were available, but a government official briefed on the matter told Reuters there was a significant fire after the crash.

A private jet carrying eight people crashed as it was taking off from Bangor International Airport in Maine on Sunday night, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
A wheel loader operator fills a truck with ore at the MP Materials rare earth mine in Mountain Pass, California, January 30, 2020; illustrative.

Trump administration to take 10% stake in USA Rare Earth in $1.6b. deal, sources say

A de-icing crew works during winter storm Fern on a Southwest Airlines flight at Nashville International Airport in Nashville, Tennessee, US, January 24, 2026.

Winter Storm Fern grounds thousands of US flights, strains power grids nationwide

Claudette Colvin, who was attending Booker T. Washington Magnet High School in 1955 when she was arrested for not giving up her seat on a Montgomery city bus, visits the school in Montgomery, Alabama, US February 3, 2005.

Claudette Colvin, US civil rights pioneer who defied bus segregation, dies at 86


New brain-computer interface allows people to play games with their thoughts

A universal brain-computer interface that lets people play games with just their thoughts can be adopted to improve the lives of those with motor disabilities.

 Hussein Alawieh wears a cap packed with electrodes that is hooked up to a computer and gather data by measuring electrical signals from the brain; the decoder interprets that information and translates it into game action

Gaza war controversy hits Texas music showcase SXSW

The festival, which runs until March 16, attracts more than 300,000 people yearly and generates extensive media coverage.

BDS activists in Berlin

Boeing plane bursts in flames only minutes after takeoff

The United Airlines' Boeing plane, which had its course plotted for Fort Myers, Florida, had one of its engines explode into flames, which forced it to make an emergency landing.

 United Airlines planes, including a Boeing 737 MAX 9 model, are pictured at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas, U.S., March 18, 2019

Texas wildfires rage across state Panhandle

The wildfire, raging northeast of Amarillo since Monday, has blackened 850,000 acres (344,000 hectares) of grasslands and timber since Monday.

 Cars drive as smoke and fire rise from wildfires in a location given as Texas, U.S., in this handout picture released on February 27, 2024

Why did Texas A&M decide to shut down its Qatar campus?

Texas A&M University recently announced plans to close its campus in Doha in 2028.

 Doha, Qatar - October 6, 2022: Texas A and M University at Qatar is a branch of Texas A and M University located in Education City

‘F’ing cowards’: Tennessee neo-Nazis confronted in viral interaction

Alleged members of the white supremacist group "Blood Tribe" marched openly with swastikas and balaclavas through the streets of Tennessee on Sunday.

 Supporters of the National Socialist Movement, a white nationalist political group, give Nazi salutes while taking part in a swastika burning at an undisclosed location in Georgia, U.S. on April 21, 2018.

Gun of Houston megachurch shooter read 'Free Palestine'

The shooter also claimed to have had a bomb, but police found no evidence of explosives.

 First responders and members of law enforcement surround the area after a shooting incident at television evangelist Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, U.S. February 11, 2024

‘Baby killer’ graffitied on home of Jewish Dallas councilwoman

Mendelsohn shared photos of the defacement, which showed faux bloody dead babies in rubble.

 View of the Dallas, Texas, skyline, taken from Reunion Tower

Pro-Palestinian protesters surround Biden landing in Dallas - report

The group who planned the protest claimed that dozens had been arrested.

 US President Joe Biden waves from the stairs of Air Force One as he arrives at Vilnius airport on the eve of a NATO leaders summit, Lithuania, July 10, 2023.

How does the inability to burp affect daily life?

The inability to burp is called “retrograde cricopharyngeus dysfunction (R-CPD).”

 A man drinking Coca Cola, illustrative