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Game of Thrones and Aquaman star Jason Momoa says he and his family are safe in Hawaii after recent devastating floods.
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The family of Today show host Savannah Guthrie has pleaded with neighbors to brainstorm their memories to help find their mom.
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Adam Ciralsky, Vanity Fair

Annie Gaus, CP El Monte Union High School District “systemically” broke state laws surrounding child sex abuse claims and botched as many as 113 abuse cases over the course of decades,…

Two are dead and scores more are injured after a plane collided with a fire truck at New York’s LaGuardia Airport.When touching down on Runway 4 at approximately 11:40 p.m. on Sunday, an Air Canada Express CRJ-900 plane operated by regional partner Jazz Aviation struck a Port Authority Airport Rescue and Firefighting vehicle that was responding to a separate incident, said the airport.’That wasn’t good to watch.’Jazz Aviation confirmed that flight 8646 was en route to LaGuardia from Montreal and carrying 72 passengers and four crew members.Kathryn Garcia, executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, said during a press conference early Monday morning that “initial numbers indicate that 41 passengers and crew were transported to the hospital as well as the [Airport Rescue] officers. At this time, we understand that 32 have been released, but there are also serious injuries.”Garcia confirmed that the pilot and first officer of the Air Canada flight were killed in the collision. The sergeant and the officer who were inside the truck are in stable condition with no life-threatening injuries.Air Canada said in a statement, “We are deeply saddened by the loss of two Jazz employees, and our deepest condolences go out to the entire Jazz community and their families.”RELATED: One crash, one derailment — and Congress still can’t follow the data Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty ImagesJack Cabot, a passenger on the ill-fated flight, said, “We went down for a regular landing. We came in pretty hard. We immediately hit something, and it was just chaos in there. About five seconds later, we had come to a stop, but in that short period, I mean, everybody was hunkered down and everybody was screaming pretty quickly,” reported Canadian state media.”We didn’t have any directions because the pilot’s cabin had been kind of destroyed, so somebody said, ‘Let’s get the emergency exit and get the door and let’s all jump out,’ and that’s exactly what we did,” added Cabot.In audio capturing LaGuardia tower communication in the moments leading up to the collision, a ground controller can be heard instructing the truck, “Just stop there. … Stop, stop, stop, Truck One, stop, stop, stop! Stop, Truck One! Stop!”The two-man vehicle was headed to a United flight that had reported an issue with an odor, according to Garcia.”Jazz 646, I see you collide with a vehicle, just hold position,” continues the controller. “I know you can’t move. Vehicles are responding to you now.”By that point, the cockpit was shorn off, with its occupants almost certainly dead.An individual in the recording states, “That wasn’t good to watch.”The controller who told the truck to stop responds, “Yeah, I know, I was here. I tried to reach out to ’em and stop ’em. We were dealing with an emergency earlier, and I messed up.”Garcia noted that where port authority rescue vehicles operating on the tarmac are concerned, “the procedure always is in deference to the control tower any time anyone is moving on any of our runways or taxiways,” and “they have to get clearance from the tower to move on our runways and our taxiways.”The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the collision.LaGuardia, which warned travelers days earlier of “longer than usual wait times” at security checkpoints “due to staffing impacts from the federal funding lapse,” announced that the airport will remain closed until at least 2 p.m. on Monday — the first day of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents’ expected nationwide deployment to help with security lines at airports.The New York Police Department announced Monday morning that all streets and highway exits into the airport have been closed until further notice.According to Federal Aviation Administration data, LaGuardia was the 19th busiest American airport in 2024.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

On Monday’s Morning Joe on MS NOW, Mika Brzezinski refused to read Donald Trump’s reaction to the death of former FBI Director Robert Mueller.

Brzezinski had been delivering a recap of Mueller’s life and career when she turned to Trump’s social media post. After beginning to quote it, she abruptly stopped mid-segment:

“I can’t even read this. I’m not doing it.”

It was on screen for viewers to see. Trump had written: “Robert Mueller just died. Good, I’m glad he’s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people!”

Even by Trump standards, the remark was jarring. Fox’s Brit Hume tweeted: “This is the kind of stuff Trump does that makes people not just oppose him but hate him.”

Instead of informing viewers, Mika made her reaction the story, substituting a visible display of distress (see screencap) for the basic journalistic task of conveying what Trump had actually written. Performance for the base comes first, not reporting.

Co-host Joe Scarborough declined to engage the substance of Trump’s remark, saying he would “rather respond to a man who committed over eight decades of his life to this country.” It’s a little overstated to assert Mueller was serving the country as a child. Then came the Russia-probe boasting:

SCARBOROUGH: Robert Mueller’s life speaks for itself. And history will judge both Robert Mueller and Donald J. Trump for what happened during the Russian investigation. And people can run around waving their arms on, other networks saying Russia hoax, Russia hoax. I’m quite confident that history will judge both of those actors through that time period. And they will not find Robert Mueller lacking.

WATCH: Mika Refuses to Read Trump Statement — “I’m Not Doing It” pic.twitter.com/MnSnh1dEg8
— Mark Finkelstein (@markfinkelstein) March 23, 2026

Brzezinski then suggested the show could read more favorable reactions instead: “The other two presidential statements were nice. We could read one of those.” George W. Bush and Barack Obama issued more typical statements of appreciation.

In Trump’s first term, MSNBC belonged to the red-hot Collusion Caucus, led by Rachel Maddow, who channeled every shaky claim in the Steele dossier. . Lawrence O’Donnell falsely claimed “The President is a Russian operative.” After Mueller failed to indict, Scarborough was still insisting “There is more of that onion to unpeel.”

But it could be argued, as a political and media matter, the Mueller probe ate much of Trump’s first term in terms of public attention. Whatever Trump sought to achieve as president was submerged under an obsession over the notion that he was illegitimately elected by a foreign power. As Rich Noyes laid out here at NewsBusters from January 20, 2017 through March 21, 2019, the last night before Mueller sent his report in to the Attorney General: 

The ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts produced a combined 2,284 minutes of “collusion” coverage, most of it (1,909 minutes) following Mueller’s appointment on May 17, 2017.

That’s an average of roughly three minutes a night, every night, for an astonishing 791 days…In fact, TV reporters devoted more airtime to the Russia investigation than any of the Trump administration’s policy initiatives — immigration, tax reform, trade, North Korea, ISIS, the economy, veterans’ affairs, the opioid epidemic, to name but a few. 

McKay Coppins, Atlantic

Afeef Nessouli & Steven W. Thrasher, Intercept Israel’s military strikes in Lebanon sparked a humanitarian crisis, driving thousands to the streets of Beirut. These are their stories.

The signs of Western cultural suicide are alarming, yet there are some positive signals as well.