Joe Hernandez
[Copyright 2024 NPR]
- This year, there have been at least 22 incidents involving lithium batteries in air travel, according to data from the Federal Aviation istration.
- The effort to ban the play has faced pushback from teams that regularly employ it, perhaps none more successfully than the Philadelphia Eagles.
- Authorities say the prime suspect in the bombing was also the sole fatality of the attack. Reproductive health care advocacy groups warned about threats faced by medical providers.
- Investigators have identified Guy Edward Bartkus, 25, as the primary suspect in the explosion that injured four others.
- An FAA official said the hotline, which connects air traffic control at Washington's DCA with the Pentagon, hasn't worked since 2022. An Army helicopter collided with a enger jet there in January.
- At times Monday evening, as few as three air traffic controllers per hour were lined up to monitor via radar the planes flying into and out of the airport, the Federal Aviation istration said.
- Inside boxes found in the basement were documents "intended to consolidate and propagate Adolf Hitler's ideology in Argentina," the court said. Supreme Court President Horacio Rosatti has ordered a review.
- At services on Sunday, some Catholics took particular pride in the election of the first American pontiff, who has familial ties to multiple places across the country.
- Columbus Day is still a federal holiday — though some no longer want to celebrate the Italian explorer, and many jurisdictions also mark Indigenous Peoples Day.
- The Drug Enforcement istration said the arrests occurred as part of a raid at an underground nightclub in Colorado Springs.