FAA investigating close call between SkyWest jet, B-52 bomber
SkyWest Flight 3788, an Embraer ERJ-175 operating as Delta Connection (DAL.N), opens new tab from Minneapolis to Minot, North Dakota, landed safely in Minot Friday after being cleared for approach but performed a go-around when another aircraft became visible in their flight path, SkyWest said.
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The Independent
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- The Independent
‘Pretty substantial distraction': Trump annoyed Epstein is dominating agenda but won't create ‘spectacle' with firings
President Donald Trump is frustrated that the Jeffrey Epstein uproar has overshadowed his agenda, but he doesn't want to 'create a bigger spectacle by firing anyone,' according to a report. Trump is said to be 'exasperated' by the scandal and is growing 'increasingly frustrated' with how his administration has handled the Epstein files saga and media attention on the president's ties to the sex offender, who died in prison in 2019 while awaiting a federal sex trafficking trial. 'This is a pretty substantial distraction,' one person close to the situation told The Washington Post. 'While many are trying to keep the unity, in many ways, the DOJ and the FBI are breaking at the seams. Many are wondering how sustainable this is going to be for all the parties involved — be it the FBI director or attorney general.' Trump is reportedly hesitant to fire anyone over the scandal. 'He does not want to create a bigger spectacle by firing anyone,' a person close to the president told the Post. The president's exasperation was evident this weekend in Scotland after Trump was asked about Epstein at a press conference touting his latest trade deal with the European Union. A reporter asked the president whether 'part of the rush to get this deal done was to knock Jeffrey Epstein's story out.' 'Oh, you've got to be kidding with that,' said Trump. 'No, it had nothing to do with it.' Attorney General Pam Bondi for months pledged to release the Epstein files and claimed they were sitting on her desk. On July 6, the Justice Department and FBI issued a memo that poured cold water on the theory that Epstein kept a 'client list' and the departments would not be sharing any further documents in the case. The memo ignited outrage among Trump's MAGA base and shows few signs of abating. Bondi was not directly involved in writing the memo, according to the Post, but officials told the outlet that she did participate in conversations that led to its publication. Trump, who has regularly indulged in conspiracy theories, also complained over the weekend that Democrats are too focused on conspiracy theories. 'All they know how to do is talk and think about conspiracy theories and nonsense,' Trump said during the meeting with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. 'If they'd waste their time talking about America being great again, it would be so much nicer.' Critics said the fallout is one of the administration's own making. 'They completely miscalculated the fever pitch to which they built this up,' said Stephen A. Salzburg, a former Justice Department official who teaches at George Washington University's law school. 'Now, they seem to be in full-bore panic mode, trying to change the subject and flailing in an effort to make sense of what makes no sense.' The Trump administration has tried to distract with other conspiracy theories. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has been pushing claims that top Obama administration officials should be prosecuted for leading a 'coup' against the president in 2016 by investigating Russian efforts to help his campaign. 'She has turned herself into a weapon of mass distraction, is what I've been calling it,' Democratic Rep. Jason Crow told Fox News on Sunday. The controversy has refused to die down after a Wall Street Journal report revealed the alleged existence of a 'bawdy' 50th birthday card from Trump to Epstein. The president has denied the validity of the letter and has filed a $10 billion defamation lawsuit against right-wing media mogul Rupert Murdoch, the Journal's parent company Dow Jones and the two journalists whose bylines appear on the story. Trump encouraged the media Friday to 'talk about Clinton, not Trump,' after the former president was also mentioned in the birthday book. A Clinton spokesman declined to comment to the Journal and instead referred to a previous statement saying the former president's association with Epstein ended more than a decade before he was arrested in 2019 on federal sex trafficking charges. The statement also said Clinton didn't know about Epstein's crimes, the Journal reports.
Daily Mail
10 minutes ago
- Daily Mail
Kaylee Goncalves' dog had creepy encounters with mystery figure in woods weeks before Idaho murders
Kaylee Goncalves' dog appeared to be lured to the woods twice in the weeks before she and three other University of Idaho students were brutally murdered at home. Goncalves and some of her friends were in the patio of the Moscow home sometime in 2022 when her dog Murphy ran into the bushes and had to be called back several times before he returned, an unidentified woman told police. A different woman told investigators that it was unlike the dog to not return when called, and that Goncalves and the others were concerned someone was in the woods behind the house. Then two weeks before the murders, during a Halloween party, the victims were in their patio when Murphy again ran to the trees behind the house and did not come back for a while. The woman told police they also heard what they believed was someone walking through the wooded area. They did not see anyone, but the dog's behavior was enough to make them go inside and lock the door. The same unnamed woman told police that during this time, she and Goncalves returned to the home and found Murphy gone, and the sliding door opened, The Spokane Spokesman-Review reported after new files about the murders were released. However she added that it was not uncommon for friends of the victims who did not live in the home to come and go freely when no one was home. The incidents prompt the question of whether killer Bryan Kohberger, 30, could have had previous contact with Murphy. That may explain why the pet allowed Kohberger to slip into the student home undetected before the November 2022 murders. The new information was included in files released by the Moscow Police Department after Kohberger was sentenced to life in prison last week without the possibility of parole for the murders of Goncalves, Maddie Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin. The new files also revealed that a woman who lived near the home told called police four months after the murders to say she was '92 percent sure' she had seen Kohberger walking by her house in August or September, 2022. The woman said the man 'looked nervous' and he had curly hair and a large nose. She added that in June or July of 2022 she had seen a white sedan parked near her mailbox for over an hour. The man reportedly drove away after a neighbor asked if he needed help. Moreover, Goncalves told her roommates she saw a man she didn't recognize staring at her when she took her dog outside in the weeks before the murders. Another time, the residents came home to find the door open, loose on its hinges. They grabbed golf clubs to arm themselves against a possible intruder. Then, on November 4, nine days before the attack, the roommates came home at 11 a.m. to find the door open, loose on its hinges, as the wind blew. It remains unclear whether the strange happenings had anything to do with the killings. But the documents do illustrate the frenzied efforts by law enforcement to follow every possible lead to find and convict Kohberger. Officers eventually identified Kohberger — a doctoral student in criminology at nearby Washington State University — using a DNA sample found on a knife sheath at the crime scene. They tracked his movements that night with cellphone data, obtained online shopping records showing he had purchased a military-style knife, and linked him to a car that repeatedly drove by the students' house. Kohberger was arrested at his parents' home in Albrightsville, Pennsylvania, about six weeks after the killings. He was taken to a state police barracks to be interviewed by officers from the Moscow police department, Idaho State Police and the FBI. They chatted about the Washington State football team, Kohberger's doctorate studies in criminal justice, his required duties to be a teaching assistant while in college, and why he wanted to become a professor. Kohberger eventually said he understood they were engaging in small talk, but he would appreciate if the officers explained what they wanted. One detective told him it was because of what had happened in Moscow. Asked if he knew what had transpired, he replied, 'Of course.' Did he want to talk about it? 'Well, I think I would need a lawyer,' Kohberger replied. He continued speaking, though — asking what specific questions they had and asking if his parents and dog were OK following his arrest. Kohberger finally said he would like to speak to an attorney, and police ended the interview because he had invoked his Fifth Amendment right.
The Guardian
10 minutes ago
- The Guardian
Republican Nancy Mace says she likes to watch videos of Ice detaining people
Republican congresswoman Nancy Mace has claimed she cruises the web for videos of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agents dragging people into custody, saying she 'can think of nothing more American'. 'I have to tell you – one of my favorite things to watch on YouTube these days are … court hearings where illegals are in court and Ice shows up to drag them out of court and deport them,' the South Carolina representative said during an appearance on Sunday on Fox Report Weekend. Being in the US without legal status is generally a civil infraction rather than a criminal violation, and recent Ice data showed most people that the agency was taking into custody in the first several months of Donald Trump's second presidency had no violent convictions. Nonetheless, on Sunday, Mace remarked: 'I can think of nothing more American today than keeping our streets safer by getting those violent criminals out of the United States of America, and we all have Donald J Trump to thank for it.' Some on both sides of the US's political aisle, including from Trump's own Republican party, met Mace's comments with criticism. Former Republican congressman turned frequent Trump critic Joe Walsh published a post on X which said that 'getting off on watching YouTube clips of immigrants at their court hearings grabbed by Ice is twisted & cruel'. But, alluding to how Mace told Fox Report Weekend on Sunday that she would soon decide whether to mount a 2026 run for governor in Republican-voting South Carolina, Walsh added that 'the cruelty is the point'. 'The … Republican party base gets off on this cruelty,' Walsh continued. 'She knows who she's talking to.' Meanwhile, X user Richard Angwin, a self-styled progressive with more than 200,000 followers, wrote: 'Nancy Mace's gleeful endorsement of Ice's courthouse ambushes on undocumented immigrants exposes her as a hypocritical opportunist who prioritizes performative cruelty over constitutional due process and American values of fairness.' Mace appeared on Fox Report Weekend days after the Guardian reported on a video which showed immigration agents telling a teenage US citizen, 'You've got no rights,' after he was pulled over while driving to his landscaping job in Florida alongside two undocumented men. The video put fresh scrutiny on the tactics of US law enforcement officials who are working under Trump administration orders to detain thousands of immigrants daily. On Sunday, Mace told Fox Report Weekend host Jon Scott that she was championing proposed legislation that would 'defund and take tax breaks away' from US cities that restrict how much local authorities cooperate with federal immigration officials. Fox Weekend Report displayed a graphic during Mace's interview which demonstrated how Ice had issued fewer than 9,500 immigration-related detainers in New York City – which limits its cooperation with federal immigration officials – during Joe Biden's presidency. By contrast, during the first seven months of Trump's second presidency, Ice had issued more than 6,000 such detainers there. Mace has been in Congress since early 2021. The former South Carolina state house member has seized national headlines through her vocal opposition to transgender women being allowed to use women's restrooms. And she has repeatedly directly attacked the first openly trans member of Congress, US House member Sarah McBride of Delaware, who first took office in January. In February, Mace also gained significant media attention after accusing four men – including her former fiance – of rape, physical abuse and sexual misconduct during a nearly hourlong speech on the US House floor. She named and displayed photos of the alleged abusers during a 50-minute presentation that day, saying to them rhetorically: 'You've booked yourself a one-way ticket to hell. It is nonstop. There are no connections.'
