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The Reagan National Airport control tower Thursday following a crash involving a plane inbound from Wichita and a helicopter over the Potomac River. (Allison Robbert for The Washington Post)

Airport control tower was understaffed before collision

Two people were handling the jobs of four when the plane and helicopter collided in D.C., killing 67 people, report says

By Katie Shepherd, Aaron C. Davis, Victoria Craw, Olivia George and Ian Duncan

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US military ordering thousands more troops to southern border

Migrants near the Rio Grande along the US-Mexico border in Juarez, Chihuahua state, Mexico, on December 18, 2024. David Peinado/Bloomberg/Getty Images

Alejandra Jaramillo, Aaron Pellish and Donald Judd,

Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the website Silk Road, appears in an undated photograph made from his computer and presented as an exhibit during his 2015 criminal trial in New York federal court. U.S. Attorneys Office for the Southern District of New York

Trump to deploy military to border, end Biden parole policies in flurry of Day One executive orders

Border security was a central part of President-elect Trump's 2024 campaign

Former President Trump walks along the U.S.-Mexico border on Aug. 22, 2024, south of Sierra Vista, Arizona. (Rebecca Noble/Getty Images)

Trump’s inauguration to be moved indoors

Flags on the US Capitol during a rehearsal ahead of the 60th presidential inauguration in Washington, DC, US, on Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025. Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Joe Biden commutes 2,500 'disproportionately long' drug offenses in final presidency days

US President Joe Biden pardons Peach, the National Thanksgiving Turkey, alongside Chair of the National Turkey Federation John Zimmerman and his son Grant during an event on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, on Nov. 25, 2024. DREW ANGE

Biden warns of dangers of 'oligarchy' of ultra-rich, 'tech-industrial complex' running country

President Joe Biden speaks from the Oval Office of the White House as he gives his farewell address Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, in Washington. (Mandel Ngan/Pool via AP)

Joe Biden warns ‘oligarchy is taking shape in America’ in farewell address

President sounds alarm about growing power of ultra-wealthy before handing presidency back to Trump

den's farewell speech from the Oval Office – video highlights

Trump announces new US tax agency

The president-elect wants to set up an ‘External Revenue Service’ to collect tariffs

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Congress certifies Trump’s win, handing him an electoral triumph over Harris

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's election was certified by Congress on Monday (Rebecca Noble/Getty Images)

Biden holds final Medal of Freedom ceremony, honoring Hillary Clinton, Bono and more

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‘DIFFICULT TO SEE’: FBI’s massive u-turn on New Orleans terror attack

Investigators photograph a Tesla Cybertruck that exploded outside the lobby of President-elect Donald Trump's hotel. Picture: Wade Vandervort/AFP

New Orleans terrorist attack: What we know so far

The New Year’s car-ramming and shooting left 15 dead and dozens injured as the authorities search for possible accomplices

A robot is deployed to a location in Houston, Texas, where police are investigating a place suspected to be associated with the attacker in a deadly rampage in New Orleans, Jan. 1, 2025. © Brett Coomer / Houston Chronicle via AP

Biden says Trump could learn ‘decency’ from Jimmy Carter in tribute address

President-elect praised Carter as a ‘truly good man’ in U-turn from past rhetoric in their long thorny relationship

Joe Biden speaks on the death of Jimmy Carter in Christiansted, St Croix, US Virgin Islands, on Sunday. Photograph: Ken Cedeno/Reuters

International students warned to return before Trump inauguration

 

‘A travel ban is likely to go into effect soon after inauguration,’ Cornell University warns its foreign students

New York University had the most international students in the US during the last academic year. Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Trump is teasing US expansion into Panama, Greenland and Canada

President-elect Donald Trump looks on during Turning Point USA's AmericaFest at the Phoenix Convention Center on December 22, 2024 in Phoenix, Arizona. Rebecca Noble/Getty Images

Joe Biden commutes sentences of 37 out of 40 federal death row inmates

The clemency action applies to all federal death row inmates except three convicted of terrorism or hate-motivated mass murder

View image in fullscreen Joe Biden commuted the sentences of all federal death row inmates except for three convicted of terrorism or hate-motivated mass murder. Photograph: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters
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