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An aircraft taxis on the runway at Washington Reagan National Airport on January 29.

AI probe of aviation close calls leads FAA to limit how helicopters can fly around busy airports

By Aaron Cooper, Alexandra Skores, CNN (CNN) — Air traffic controllers will now use radar to actively track helicopters when flying through the flight paths of planes taking off and landing at busy airports, the Federal Aviation Administration said in an order published Wednesday. Chopper pilots had been allowed to take responsibility for visual separation

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The US struck what it claimed without evidence was a drug-trafficking vessel in the eastern Pacific on March 8

Word of the Week: Denying the enemy ‘quarter’ may sound like tough talk, but it would be a war crime

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN (CNN) — At a March 13 news briefing about the US-Israeli war with Iran, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth proclaimed: “We will keep pushing, keep advancing, no quarter, no mercy for our enemies.” Of the Oxford English Dictionary’s few dozen definitions for “quarter” — covering units of measurement, physical locations and

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A Venezuelan migrant and her daughter stand near the US-Mexico border in Ciudad Juarez

DHS has a nearly billion-dollar plan to get immigrants to ‘self deport.’ 72,000 people have signed up so far

By Audrey Ash, Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump has heralded a $915 million incentive program and app as key tools to get undocumented immigrants to voluntarily leave the country, part of a broader push his administration credits with getting 2.2 million people to “self-deport.” But a new document shared internally within DHS

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Travelers wait in long lines at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Monday.

TSA workers face reality of working without pay as passengers unaware of the shutdown see long lines

By Alexandra Skores, CNN Washington, DC (CNN) — More than a third of the security screeners at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport didn’t show up to work Tuesday, the airport’s general manager said, causing passengers to have to wait in line for up to two hours. Long lines have stretched through different airports this week as

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Cuban president promises ‘impregnable resistance’ to any US attempt to control island

By Patrick Oppmann, Hilary Whiteman, CNN Havana (CNN) — Any attempt by the United States to take control of Cuba would be met with “impregnable resistance,” Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said Tuesday, as power returned to some parts of the island following a nationwide grid collapse. Successive US administrations have sought to isolate Cuba for

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Cesar Chavez

Iconic labor leader Cesar Chavez accused of decades of sexual abuse as annual celebrations are canceled nationwide

By Andy Rose, Emma Tucker, Norma Galeana, CNN (CNN) — Latino leaders and elected officials say they are shocked by “deeply troubling” sexual misconduct allegations against Cesar Chavez, one of the Latino community’s most prominent civil rights icons, as planned annual celebrations of the late labor leader are canceled and his legacy as a labor

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Arab League Fast Facts

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the Arab League, an organization of Middle Eastern and African countries and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Facts Ahmed Aboul Gheit of Egypt is the current secretary-general of the Arab League. There are also four observer states: Eritrea, India, Brazil and Venezuela. The Arab League’s purpose,

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