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The National Transportation Safety Board on Sunday said it is gathering information about the evacuation of a Frontier Airlines plane after it hit and killed a person on the runway at Denver International Airport during takeoff. The plane, on route from Denver to Los Angeles International Airport, “reported striking a pedestrian during takeoff at DEN at approximately 11:19 p.m. on Friday,” according to a post on the airport’s official X account. Passengers were evacuated via slides, and the emergency crew bused them to the terminal. An airport spokesperson said 12 passengers suffered minor injuries and five were taken to hospitals.…

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — The death toll from a suicide attack on a security post in northwest Pakistan rose to 14 police officers, authorities said early Sunday, as a self-proclaimed breakaway group of the Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. A suicide bomber and several gunmen detonated an explosives-laden vehicle near the post in Bannu, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan, late Saturday, said senior police official Sajjad Khan. The attack triggered an intense shootout, and some officers were killed in the exchange, while others died later after the building collapsed. Rescuers conducted an hourslong search operation using…

Researchers found a brain-eating amoeba in the waters of three National Park sites — Yellowstone, Grand Teton, and Lake Mead National Recreation Area — with Olympic National Park and Newberry National Volcanic Monument testing negative. Affected locations include Firehole River, Boiling River, and Lewis Lake Hot Springs in Yellowstone; Polecat, Huckleberry and Granite Hot Springs in Grand Teton; and multiple hot springs in Lake Mead, Nevada. The amoeba was found in 63 of 185 water samples, or 34%, across these three sites. High concentrations of this brain-eating amoeba, Naegleria fowleri, are the cause of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis with a fatality…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — For 21 years, Steve Fowler and Sam Wilson have performed together in a band on Memphis’ renowned Beale Street. And for the past decade, the men have been neighbors on a quiet, leafy avenue. But as of Thursday, they will no longer cast the same ballot despite living across the street from each other. That’s because Tennessee’s Republican-controlled legislature redrew the congressional district of Memphis, which has long enjoyed its own Democratic-leaning U.S. House seat. Now, the city is split into three Republican-leaning districts, its majority-Black population sliced up and bound to mostly white, rural and conservative…

“Bomb on target. One by APRS. Four-meter HOB. Thirty-second SST.” “Roger sending.” It’s the tiny weapon seen in conflicts around the world. “Attaching warhead. Inserting cap.” “Flipping drone.” “Spinning props.” You may not see it coming, but you’ll hear it. And by then, it’s already too late. “Contact. I got southeast-facing window. Request permission to engage.” So this is a first-person-view attack drone, essentially a modified quadcopter. And these Marines have just had three weeks of training to get ready to get this thing into combat. F.P.V.s are designed to follow a moving target and bomb it with a push…

NEW YORK — No quick dispatching of disease investigators. No news conference to inform the public. No timely health alerts to doctors. In the midst of a strange outbreak of hantavirus on a cruise ship that involves Americans and is making headlines around the world, the U.S. government’s top public health agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has been missing in action, according to a number of experts. “We seem to have things under very good control,” President Donald Trump told reporters Friday evening. But experts say the situation has not spiraled because, unlike COVID-19 or measles or…

Schools and universities across the country are recovering from an outage that knocked down Canvas, an online platform that manages exams, course notes, lecture videos and grades. The disruption tied to a cyberattack hit in the middle of finals period for many colleges, a high-stress time when students and instructors rely heavily on the platform. By late Thursday, Instructure, the parent company of Canvas, said the platform was available again to most users. The hacking group ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for the breach, said Luke Connolly, a threat analyst at the cybersecurity firm Emsisoft. On Friday, Instructure and Canvas no longer…

A former NFL player was sentenced to prison for over 16 years for a $197 million Medicare fraud scheme. Joel Rufus French, who played for the Seattle Seahawks, was convicted in February of conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud and wire fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering and conspiracy to offer, pay, solicit and receive kickbacks. He sold patient information and counterfeit doctors’ orders for unneeded orthotic braces, according to the Justice Department.  French worked with overseas telemarketing call centers that pressured elderly Americans into providing personal and health insurance information and agreeing to accept medically unnecessary orthotic braces, according to…

On Friday, federal prosecutors levied firearms-related charges against three men arrested in New York and accused of gunrunning into Canada. Suspects Malik Bromfield, Faizan Ali and Kamal Salman were arrested Thursday and are alleged to have had 89 guns, at least 17 of them previously reported stolen, with them in their car, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York said. The New York State Police stopped the car, a white Ford Explorer with North Carolina tags rented via Enterprise, on New York State Route 90 in Liberty, New York, over 84 miles northwest of New York…

Faith leaders and politicians paid tribute at a funeral Saturday to eight children who were killed in a mass shooting last month in Louisiana. The victims of the April 19 shooting in Shreveport included seven siblings who were shot by their father in an attack that also killed their cousin. The service on Mother’s Day weekend at Summer Grove Baptist Church began with a long procession of mourners slowly filing past eight white caskets with large photos of the children next to them. Gold crowns and bouquets of white flowers were placed on top of the closed caskets. A choir…