An American Airlines regional passenger jet and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter collided midair and crashed into the Potomac River near Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday night. Officials have not provided a death toll but said all passengers and crew on both flights were feared dead.
The DC Court of Appeals will hear a case that has potential nationwide influence on the legal doctrine of “ecclesial abstention.”
A judge in Washington, D.C., sided with plaintiffs who claimed the White House’s freezing of billions of dollars in congressionally-approved funding violated the law.
Multiple 911 callers reported the crash near the river just before 8:55 p.m., according to the Metropolitan Police Department and the District of Columbia Fire and EMS.
The District of Columbia Public Schools community is mourning the loss of one of its high school students who was shot and killed in Southwest over the weekend. In a letter sent to the Roosevelt High School community,
The acting U.S. attorney said he wants to "get to the bottom" of why an obstruction charge was used against some of the Capitol riot defendants Trump pardoned.
Lawsuit alleges the Office of Personnel Management is using a server to send emails to employees without conducting the required privacy assessments.
Trump’s installed top prosecutor in the District of Columbia is investigating the use of an obstruction charge in Jan. 6 cases. The president had faced that charge, too.
Top Democrats on House and Senate appropriations committees wrote to OMB's acting head questioning the legality of the freeze.
"January 20 was an inauguration—not a coronation," said one attorney general suing the Trump administration for its federal spending freeze.
D.C. police confirmed a crash had taken place over the Potomac and that search and rescue operations were taking place in the river. Donald Trump later weighed in.
Multiple fatalities have been reported Thursday morning after an American Airlines plane and a U.S. Army helicopter collided midair near Reagan Airport in D.C.