It’s a dim and drizzly Monday in New York City, where things are going from bad to worse at LaGuardia Airport.
Near midnight last night, tragedy struck when an Air Canada Express regional jet collided with a Port Authority fire truck on Runway 4 during a routine landing. Officials say the truck was responding to a separate incident involving a United Airlines aircraft that reported an onboard odor.
The two pilots of the Air Canada Express were killed and 41 others, including dozens of passengers and the two operators in the fire truck, were hospitalized with injuries. As of this morning, 32 people have been discharged, while several others remain seriously injured.
The collision forced a full ground stop at Laguardia Airport, which was expected to remain closed until at least 2 p.m. Hundreds of flights have been cancelled or diverted while federal investigators look into the incident.
Early evidence from air traffic control recordings suggests a miscommunication in the flight tower. “The Air Canada jet was obviously cleared to land and from the radio transmissions, it appears that the airport rescue and firefighting vehicle was cleared,” U.S. safety expert Anthony Brickhouse told Reuters. “There are a lot of questions now regarding the communications.”
Air travelers are already facing major delays as a partial government shutdown stretches into its second month and thousands of Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents across the country call in sick rather than work without pay. Security lines snake through terminals and even outside airport buildings as more agents call out.
To help keep the lines moving, Border Czar Tom Homan is deploying Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to fill in for absent TSA workers at large airports, including JFK.
“ He’s tired of waiting and American people being held hostage, you know, at long lines, at the airports,” Homan said of Donald Trump on Fox News. “There’s a lot of things that TSA does that doesn’t require specialized training, right?”
Passengers waiting on their hours-long security lines can only hope this large-scale ICE deployment goes a little more smoothly than the last one.
A new bombshell analysis found that “bales” of documents were shredded at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in lower Manhattan in the days after Jeffrey Epstein’s notorious death there.
Flights in and out of Newark Liberty International Airport were temporarily paused this morning after air traffic controllers evacuated the tower due to a burning smell coming from an elevator.
The promised economic boom from the upcoming World Cup is starting to look like a bust as hotels have fewer advance bookings than they did this time last year, when there were no special events.
Officials broke ground on Friday in a major project to restore and upgrade the Prospect Park perimeter along Ocean and Parkside avenues from Empire Boulevard to Parade Place
“Project Restore,” a pilot project focused on reducing gang-related violence in Brooklyn neighborhoods, was a massive success in Bed-Stuy, according to District Attorney Eric Gonzalez. The program heads to Brownsville next.
Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Board of Trustees announced the appointment of Tamara McCaw as the institution’s new president following an international search.
The Landmarks Preservation Commission approved a 24-story rental tower to go above the historic Hanson Place Central United Methodist Church.
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WEST BANK — Wait, they can’t play with this toy until they’re fully grown: Children play beside a fragment of an Iranian ballistic missile that landed in a schoolyard in the Israeli settlement of Peduel in the West Bank Monday, March 23, 2026.
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Immigrant kids can attend school regardless of citizenship. Some states are challenging this standard
Maribel Hidalgo, 23, of Caracas, Venezuela, stands for a portrait with her son, Daniel, 2, outside a shelter for immigrants in New York, on Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024. Photo: Cedar Attanasio/AP
All immigrants, regardless of their citizenship status, have the right to attend a public K-12 school in the United States. Schools cannot collect students’ immigration status when they enroll. This has been the case since 1982, when the Supreme Court ruled against Texas in the case of Plyler v. Doe.
Republican legislators in several states, including Tennessee, Oklahoma and Ohio, are trying to pass legislation that challenges the Plyler decision. These bills would make it harder, if not impossible, for immigrant children to attend public school.
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New trains: Governor Kathy Hochul announced plans to purchase new open-gangway subway cars for the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 lines in the largest subway car contract in history. “We are in the midst of a public transit renaissance in New York, with growing ridership, the best service in a generation and historic investments to modernize the lifeblood of our city,” Hochul said. Learn more.
Happy Birthday to Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Chaka Khan!
On This Day in 1839, the Boston Morning Post printed the first known “ok.” It derived from a jovial misspelling of “all correct” — “oll korrect.” Etymologist Allen Reed doggedly tracked down the word’s origin in the 1960s. “OK” is now used in most languages.
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