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Delays persisted Saturday at Newark Liberty International Airport.There were at least 377 delays and 82 cancellations throughout the day, according to FlightAware. This comes a day after United Airlines announced it’d be cutting 35 flights per day from Newark due to persistent equipment and staffing issues.”It’s now clear – and the FAA tells us – that Newark airport cannot handle the number of planes that are scheduled to operate there in the weeks and months ahead,” United CEO Scott Kirby said. “It’s disappointing to make further cuts to an already reduced schedule at Newark, but since there is no way…

I was a political prisoner in Egypt. I didn’t want to become one again in America. Ad Policy US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents knock on the door of a residence during a multi-agency targeted enforcement operation in Chicago, Illinois, on Sunday, January 26, 2025.(Christopher Dilts / Bloomberg via Getty Images) I was a political prisoner for over six years in Egypt. Last week, I fled the US to escape the possibility of the same fate. After Columbia graduate Mahmoud Khalil was abducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in front of his university apartment in New York City,…

A small plane crashed into two homes in Simi Valley, Calif., on Saturday, killing the pilot, according to the Federal Aviation Administration and the Ventura County Fire Department.Residents were inside the two-story, single-family homes, and were evacuated without any injuries, the fire department said. The homes suffered structural damage and fire damage.The identity of the pilot was not released.Video posted on social media by the fire department showed firefighters on a roof tending to a smoking area of one of the houses.The plane, a single engine fixed-wing Van’s Aircraft RV-10, had departed from General William J. Fox Airfield in Lancaster…

Normandy, France — The heroic D-Day landings in Normandy marked the beginning of the end of World War II, where thousands of the Americans who fell in the assault still rest in graves in northwestern France.It was the sacrifice of the American and European Allied soldiers during the Normandy Invasion, and of course their great victory over the Nazis, that formed the bedrock of an alliance that has stood firm for more than 80 years.Then, however, came President Trump’s rhetoric and the ensuing tariff war. “Europe has been very, very bad for us,” Mr. Trump told reporters last month. “Europe has…

The C.I.A. fired its top doctor after she was targeted by far-right activists who have worked to oust government officials they see as disloyal, according to a lawsuit filed Friday evening.Late last year, the C.I.A. recruited the doctor, Terry Adirim, to take a top medical job as the director of the agency’s Center for Global Health Services. Within days, Ivan Raiklin, a far-right provocateur, accused her of being the “architect” of the Pentagon’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate.Dr. Adirim, 61, had served in a top medical role in the Defense Department in 2021 when Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III mandated that…

Bob Filner, a progressive Democrat who served two decades in Congress and then successfully ran for mayor of San Diego, promising to shake up City Hall — but whose career imploded within months amid a storm of sexual harassment charges — died on April 20. He was 82.His family announced the death. The announcement did not give a cause or say where he died, but The San Diego Union-Tribune reported that he died in an assisted living home in Costa Mesa, Calif.Mr. Filner, who was known for his brash and combative style, resigned as mayor under pressure in August 2013,…

The Emmy Award-winning “CBS News Sunday Morning” is broadcast on CBS Sundays beginning at 9:00 a.m. ET.  “Sunday Morning” also streams on the CBS News app beginning at 11:00 a.m. ET. (Download it here.)  Hosted by Jane Pauley       COVER STORY: Lawrence Summers”Sunday Morning” national correspondent Robert Costa reports.For more info:        ALMANAC: May 4″Sunday Morning” looks back at historical events on this date. Tyler Mitchell, “Untitled (Christian in Wales Bonner)” (2025), from the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute exhibition, “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style.” Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art ARTS: At the Met – The culture…

A See’s Candies worker restocks the display next to a cutout of Warren Buffett at the Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting exhibit hall Friday, May 2, 2025 in Omaha, Neb. (AP Photo/Josh Funk) (AP Photo/Josh Funk) hide caption toggle caption (AP Photo/Josh Funk) OMAHA, Neb.–Warren Buffett wants the United States to knock off its trade war. “Trade should not be a weapon,” the billionaire investor and Berkshire Hathaway CEO said on Saturday morning, at his annual shareholder meeting in Omaha. The United States “should be looking to trade with the rest of the world. We should do what we do best,…

The Trump administration sued Colorado and Denver on Friday, accusing the state, city and their leaders of impeding federal immigration actions, the latest salvo in the White House’s fight to compel local governments to help carry out deportations.The lawsuit, which was filed in federal court in Colorado and includes Gov. Jared Polis and Mayor Mike Johnston of Denver as defendants, specifically challenges state and city laws that restrict or prohibit cooperation with federal agencies.One state law prohibits officers from holding someone solely on the basis of a civil immigration detainer, a request that a detainee not be released. Other state…

President Trump shared an AI-generated photo of himself dressed as the pope just days after telling reporters that he’d “like to be pope.”The image – which Mr. Trump first posted on his social media platform Truth Social – was also shared by the White House’s official social media account on Friday. It comes as cardinals from around the world are set to gather in Vatican City to choose Pope Francis’ successor as the leader of the Catholic Church.The image shows Mr. Trump seated in an ornate chair, dressed in white papal vestments and headdress, with a finger raised. pic.twitter.com/x2HrR939tn— The White…