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PROVO, Utah — Lawyers for the man accused of killing Charlie Kirk urged a Utah judge on Tuesday to seal some evidence and bar reporters and the public from parts of a key upcoming hearing after the judge declined to ban news cameras from the courtroom. Tyler Robinson’s defense has argued that broadcasts of the proceedings create media frenzies that often misrepresent him and could bias potential jurors. They hope to restrict access to parts of his preliminary hearing, scheduled for July 6-10, during which prosecutors must show they have enough evidence to warrant a trial. That hearing will mark…

The head of the Federal Aviation Administration, Bryan Bedford, told Congress on Tuesday that he believes his agency had a “bad design” that resulted in the fatal aircraft collision near the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. The National Transportation Safety Board found multiple errors and shortcomings that led to the midair crash of a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines jetliner in January 2025, killing all 67 people aboard the two aircraft. “The NTSB final report confirms that our airspace system was providing warning signals prior to the accident,” Mr. Bedford told the Senate Subcommittee on Aviation,…

OMAHA, Neb. — U.S. health officials said Tuesday they have issued quarantine orders for two passengers from the cruise ship at the center of a hantavirus outbreak who are now at a hospital in Nebraska. The orders were signed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s acting director, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, the CDC said in a statement. Quarantine orders, which can be enforced with fines and prison time, are a rare legal step that can be taken if someone objects to a public health request. All 18 passengers at the Nebraska hospital had been asked to stay at the…

LOS ANGELES — The three people killed by two teen shooters at a San Diego mosque were beloved pillars of the community, and died while saving roughly 140 children who were in the building at the time of the attack, authorities said Tuesday. All three men were shot while trying to delay and distract the two gunmen who barged into the Islamic Center of San Diego on Monday, San Diego Police Chief Scott Wahl said. The Imam of the Islamic Center of San Diego, Taha Hassane, identified the three victims as Amin Abdullah, 51, Nader Awad, 57, and Mansour Kaziha,…

A 56-year-old woman died from her injuries after falling about 10 feet into an open manhole in Manhattan late Monday night. Donike Gocaj parked her car at around 11:20 p.m. and proceeded to fall down the open, roughly 10-foot manhole, New York City Police Department sources told the New York Daily News. Carlton Wood, who was walking to work and saw Ms. Gocaj’s fall, told the New York Post that “the minute she stepped out of that SUV, she closed the door behind her and only took a couple steps forward and just dropped into the hole. You know, it…

As artificial intelligence casts a shadow over career prospects, it is becoming an unwelcome subject at this season’s college commencements. At several campuses, graduates have interrupted speakers with stadium-wide boos when the topic turned to AI. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt faced repeated jeers over the weekend during his keynote address to about 10,000 University of Arizona graduates on the rise of AI. “It will touch every profession, every classroom, every hospital, every laboratory, every person and every relationship you have,” Schmidt said, as booing began to build in the audience. “I know what many of you are feeling about…

Federal safety investigators opened two days of hearings Tuesday to examine why the engine flew off a UPS cargo plane last year, causing a crash that killed 15 people, and why Boeing didn’t address an underlying flaw sooner. The engine separated from the MD-11’s wing as it accelerated down the runway Louisville’s Muhammad Ali International Airport in November. The crash killed three pilots on the plane and 12 people on the ground. More were injured. “Please know: Your loved ones are the reason we’re here. We want to find out what happened,” Jennifer Homendy, chair of the National Transportation Safety…

WASHINGTON — The NAACP is calling on Black athletes and fans to boycott the athletic programs of public universities in states that are taking steps that the nation’s oldest civil rights group says are restricting Black voting rights. Launched on Tuesday, the “Out of Bounds” campaign urges prospective Black athletes, their families, alumni and fans to “withhold athletic and financial support” from major public universities in states that “have moved to limit, weaken or erase Black voting representation.” If Black athletes participate in the boycott, it could deplete rosters for powerhouse football and basketball programs across the Southeastern Conference and…

A small airplane made an emergency landing Monday on a stretch of beach near Ocean City, Maryland, authorities said. The two-seat Cessna 150K plane landed near 94th Street around 5:30 p.m., the Ocean City Fire Department said. No injuries were reported. Fire Department spokesperson Ryan Whittington told The Baltimore Sun that the pilot avoided beachgoers and the plane did not leak any fuel during or after the incident. “There was no sound, I just suddenly saw a plane, like dive down. It was level, it just flew level with the sand, and then nose-dived into the sand and crashed,” witness…

DETROIT — A man who spent nearly 21 years in prison for the deaths of two Michigan hunters agreed to a $5.25 million settlement after accusing police of failing to turn over evidence that could have helped him at trial, a lawyer said Monday. Jeff Titus was released in 2023 and his murder convictions were erased at the request of prosecutors. The Innocence Clinic at University of Michigan law school and two investigators got authorities to acknowledge that an Ohio serial killer might have been the person who killed the hunters in 1990. Titus had long declared his innocence. “It’s…