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A Southwest Airlines flight dropped several hundred feet in a matter of seconds to avoid a midair collision, after the Federal Aviation Administration said pilots were alerted to another aircraft's presence in the area.

Southwest Flight 1496 was en route Friday to Las Vegas from Hollywood Burbank Airport when just six minutes after takeoff, the aircraft took a nearly 500 foot plunge to comply with traffic alerts issued to the pilots.

The bills would carry a $5,000 fine for a first-time violation and comes as momentum for such restrictions has increased in the state and nationally.

President Trump visited the Federal Reserve on Thursday to inspect an ongoing renovation of the central bank's Washington, D.C., buildings — and in an unusual moment, then disagreed with Fed Chair Jerome Powell about the final cost of the project.

Disaster Management Group is one contractor behind the nation’s largest detention camp, to be built at Fort Bliss. It’s run by Nathan Albers, who previously co-owned a company that pleaded guilty to a scheme to hire and conceal undocumented workers.

A Florida federal judge on Wednesday denied a request to unseal grand jury transcripts of a federal investigation into disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

President Trump had called for the release of grand jury testimony related to Epstein, who was accused of sexually trafficking children, in response to pressure from lawmakers and some supporters to show more transparency with the case.

U.S. District Judge Robin Rosenberg of Florida said in her ruling that 11th Circuit law does not permit her to grant the government's request and that her "hands are tied."

• Under Surveillance: Law enforcement agencies have collaborated with private security to surveil largely peaceful protesters opposed to a Nevada mining project called Thacker Pass.
• Terrorism Task Force: An FBI-led joint terrorism task force has at times focused on the protests, according to internal law enforcement communications.
• Tribal Land: Indigenous people protesting the mine say they have been unfairly singled out by authorities for trying to protect their lands.

The July 21, 2025 release includes the FBI records related to the investigation into the assassination of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (codename: MURKIN); records that the CIA deemed responsive to E.O. 14176 (including documents already included in the JFK Assassination Records Collection at the National Archives); as well as Department of State file “PS 10-4 US-UK/Ray, James Earl,” which includes information related to Ray’s extradition from the United Kingdom.

For records released on July 21, 2025, researchers may encounter a combination of black and white and colored scans. Here’s why: black and white scans were used in order to more efficiently facilitate the prioritized interagency review process. However, some pages were not legible in black and white. When the National Archives encountered unreadable pages, they were replaced with legible color scans.

Full 92-page report: You Feel Like Your Life is Over’: Abusive Practices at Three Florida Immigration Detention Centers Since January 2025.

• Detainees in Florida immigration detention centers are being subjected to inhuman conditions, including denial of medical care, overcrowding, and degrading treatment. At least two recent deaths may have been linked to medical neglect.
• These are not isolated incidents, but rather the result of a fundamentally broken detention system that is rife with serious abuses.
• The US government should prioritize community-based alternatives to detention, immediately address the abusive detention conditions, and provide independent oversight of detention facilities.

Carmel Swann moved to Texas in June 2021 looking for a fresh start and a chance to leave bad decisions behind. But, within weeks, she was in the Harris County Jail after an altercation with the man she’d moved in with. Then, she discovered she was pregnant from a prior relationship.

She began working on a deferred adjudication agreement with prosecutors that would allow her to avoid conviction and be released in May 2022. But her due date fell in March, so she asked a family member to come from California to care for the baby during the two-month gap.

Shortly after delivering her son at the county-owned Lyndon B. Johnson General Hospital—on March 10, 2022—a Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) caseworker told her that no one, including the Californian relative, was coming to help. The father was uninvolved, and Swann didn’t know anyone in Houston.

Overwhelmed, she felt alone and out of options. “It was just too much in that short frame of time,” she told the Texas Observer.

Her son remained hospitalized after she was returned to jail because he’d been exposed to COVID-19 and suffered a fall from Swann’s hospital bed. At the behest of the state caseworker, a representative from a nonprofit faith-based child placement agency, then called Loving Houston Adoption Agency, soon visited Swann in jail, according to a document filed in a subsequent lawsuit. (Loving Houston Adoption Agency was later renamed Loving Houston Foster and Adoption Ministries.)

As Swann recalls it, the agency representative promised to find safe, temporary care for her child. Having grown up in California’s state-run public foster care system, Swann believed he would be safer in private placement than with the state of Texas. She thought the contract ensured that she would get him back in six to 12 months, and she signed it without consulting an attorney.

Several weeks later, her baby went to live with a former professional football player and his wife in a Houston suburb who signed their own contract to temporarily care for children brought into the agency’s fold.

Swann convinced herself things would work out. “This is going to be okay,” she remembers thinking. “I’m going to get out … and I’m going to work on getting him back.”

But, by signing the Loving Houston Adoption Agency placement contract, Swann had unknowingly entered a murky legal world.

A draft executive order viewed by ProPublica directs the secretary of transportation to “use all available authorities to eliminate or expedite” environmental reviews for launch licenses — a change Elon Musk’s SpaceX and others have long sought.

A man died last week after being pulled into an MRI machine by a “large metallic chain” police said he was wearing around his neck – highlighting the importance of checking for any metallic objects before going near the powerful magnets used in the medical imaging machines.

The 61-year-old died Thursday, a day after Nassau County police said he was pulled into the MRI machine at Nassau Open MRI in Westbury, New York, on Long Island. The victim was wearing “a large metallic chain around his neck causing him to be drawn into the machine,” prompting an unspecified “medical episode,” police said in a news release.

The man’s entry to the room “while the scan was in progress” was not authorized, police said.

He was taken to a hospital in critical condition before he was declared dead the following day. The investigation is ongoing, police said.

A pilot flying a Delta Air Lines regional jet on Friday apologized to his passengers after making a hard turn to avoid colliding with a US Air Force B-52 bomber, audio from the incident shows.

The incident occurred on SkyWest Flight 3788, which was operating as a Delta Connection flight, from Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Minot, North Dakota, SkyWest said in a statement.

The flight landed safely in Minot “after being cleared for approach by the tower but performed a go-around when another aircraft became visible in their flight path,” the statement read.

Andy Byron, the chief executive of New York-based tech company Astronomer, has resigned from his role after he was spotted embracing an employee at a Coldplay concert, according to a statement shared with CNN on Saturday.

Astronomer’s board of directors accepted Byron’s resignation and will begin searching for its next CEO, according to the statement.

A man was convicted and deported to Mexico, and at least 26 other people have been arrested under a Florida immigration law that officials were ordered not to enforce.

Like most of the more than 230 Venezuelan men deported to a Salvadoran prison, José Manuel Ramos Bastidas had followed U.S. immigration rules. Then Trump rewrote them.

• Foreclosures Focused in Maine: Since March, the USDA has filed 56 foreclosures in the federal court system against properties purchased with a rural development mortgage. All but one were in Maine.
• USDA Delayed Action: The Maine borrowers have been in default for an average of nearly nine years, racking up more debt because of the interest and fees that piled up in intervening years.
• National Problem: About 20% of USDA Section 502 direct loans across the nation were delinquent as of March, according to internal agency data.