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Signing the memorandum in the Oval Office, Trump repeated – without evidence – his earlier assertions that federal diversity programs contributed to a helicopter and a regional jet colliding near Washington.

Signing the memorandum in the Oval Office, Trump repeated – without evidence – his earlier assertions that federal diversity programs contributed to a helicopter and a regional jet colliding near Washington.

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Trump jumps right to the blame game over DC midair collision that left dozens dead  CNN

Gabbard’s Hearing Turns Tense Over Snowden Questions  The New York Times ‘Her Opening Line Was a Home Run’: The Best and Worst Moments From the Tulsi Gabbard Hearing  The New York Times Tulsi Gabbard’s views on Russia, Syria, Trump and government surveillance

Gabbard’s Hearing Turns Tense Over Snowden Questions  The New York Times ‘Her Opening Line Was a Home Run’: The Best and Worst Moments From the Tulsi Gabbard Hearing  The New York Times Tulsi Gabbard grilled on Snowden, Assad and Putin in tense

Marianne Faithfull, the British pop star, muse, libertine and old soul who inspired and helped write some of the Rolling Stones’ greatest songs and endured as a torch singer and survivor of the lifestyle she once embodied, has died.

Considering the world has gone mad, this ought to be the ultimate era for chaos comedy: movies in which alligators are wrestled into bed, in which hoity-toity wedding guests get buzzed by passing motorboats, in which male strippers show up

Collision between helicopter and jetliner kills 67 in nation’s worst air disaster in a generation  The Associated Press Live updates: American Airlines plane, Black Hawk helicopter collide near Washington, DC; no survivors expected  CNN Air traffic controller radio offers look into lead-up

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, who was sworn in earlier this week, said on Thursday both an American Airlines passenger jet and a U.S. Army helicopter were in standard flight patterns before they collided above Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington,