A routine flight turned terrifying when a violent altercation broke out inside the cockpit and the aircraft dropped 17,000 feet in two minutes. Passengers subdued a knife-wielding attacker.Passengers from FlyDubai Flight 1073 at the Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz Airport in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia, on Wedn
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said one pilot stabbed another and may have attempted to crash the flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv. The plane landed in Saudi Arabia and all passengers were safe.A FlyDubai jet at Dubai International Airport on Tuesday.
Some Iraqis are celebrating the end of an American military presence that unleashed waves of bloodshed. Others fear what happens next for their country, trapped between Washington and Tehran.A giant Iraqi flag hung from the Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosul’s old city on Tuesday. With the end of Oper
The Americans did not understand the country when they invaded in 2003. From the earliest days, there were signs of the trouble ahead, our correspondent recalls.In March 2003, a statue of Saddam Hussein was still standing near a communications center in Baghdad that had been bombed two days earlier.
100 Zeros, a collaboration between Google and Range Media Partners, aims to give the tech giant a foothold in movies, TV and emerging forms of entertainment.Jonathan Zepp, left, Google’s head of entertainment content and platforms, and Peter Micelli, chief executive of Range Media Partners, at Googl
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
In a small Idaho town, a young mother is accused of killing her young twins. She blames the childhood vaccines they received.Andrea Shaw appeared in court via video feed in July.
A new report by the Federal Reserve’s independent inspector general concluded that a nearly $2.5 billion construction project was poorly managed but made no referrals to the U.S. attorney general.Renovations to the Federal Reserve became a flashpoint between President Trump and Jerome H. Powell befo
The gathering comes as the defense secretary is facing precarious times as the public face of the Trump administration’s unpopular war against Iran.Mr. Hegseth is the public face of the Trump administration’s deeply unpopular war against Iran.
An enormous pulse of wave energy will soon reach Southern California and continue north, raising sea levels by half a foot and increasing threats from swells and tides.A wave crashes into a sea wall protecting beachfront homes in Long Beach, Ca., where a boardwalk was damaged by Hurricane Marie.
Texas had a dry summer, and rain on Wednesday could run off the arid ground like water on concrete.Vehicles navigating a road after torrential rains moved through the Phoenix area on Tuesday.
Christa Pike tortured and murdered a classmate in 1995. She had been set to die on Wednesday, the first woman executed in the state in 200 years.Christa Pike attended a hearing in Knox County Criminal Court in August via a video hookup.
Many immigrants without green cards will no longer be eligible for the health insurance program for low-income people.Farahzad Sediqi is set to lose Medicaid, which helps cover her treatment for multiple sclerosis, a disorder of the central nervous system that can cause paralysis and seizures.
Yehonatan Ovadia, who opposed the mounting of the flag in a small New York town, belongs to a Hasidic branch that is anti-Zionist. He is now in ICE custody.Yehonatan Ovadia, center, at a demonstration against Israel in New York this year. He is in federal immigration detention because of a protest h
District Attorney Matthew Van Houten said a woman’s report to the police in 2024 saying she had been raped at a fraternity did not support a criminal case. But he said he was now reaching out to her.Matthew Van Houten, district attorney for Tompkins County, N.Y., said some new evidence is emerging i
The national organization of the Chi Phi fraternity at the center of a Cornell University sexual assault lawsuit explained publicly for the first time how it handled the episode.The Chi Phi fraternity house at Cornell University.
How could so little have changed?
The world order is changing. So is the United States’ place in it.
The British prime minister, Andy Burnham, said there were “strong indications” Iran played a part in the events at R.A.F. Fairford on Sunday, without providing details why.Outside the R.A.F. Fairford base in southwest England on Monday. Mr. Burnham said there was an “ongoing, complex and serious pol
