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BATON ROUGE, La. — A U.S. appeals court on Thursday ruled against a federal law requiring young adults to be 21 to buy handguns, finding it violated the Second Amendment. The ruling, handed down by a panel of three judges on the conservative U.S. 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals …

Nancy Kerrigan stepped to the microphone at the Boston Skating Club in Norwood, Massachusetts, visibly shaken.  Just hours earlier she had heard the news of Wednesday night’s tragedy, in which 64 people aboard a commercial airliner died after it collided with a military helicopter midair near Reagan Washington National Airport. …

The backdrop should be reassuring for many investors: A lively bull market, pro-business policies promised by the Trump administration and a Federal Reserve close to pulling off a soft landing. However, Wall Street’s biggest names aren’t sounding so bullish for the year ahead. Convening at an alternative investments conference in Miami …

Air traffic control towers at the airport captured audio of the immediate aftermath of the crash. In the recording, someone — presumably a pilot — asks the air traffic controllers, “Tower, did you see that?” A controller responds, “Yep, we saw it.” The same controller tells aircraft in the area …

Watch live coverage from NBC4 Washington after American Eagle Flight 5342 carrying 60 passengers and four crew members collided midair with an Army helicopter near Reagan Washington National Airport.

Eight hostages to be released as part of Gaza deal

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WASHINGTON — A commercial plane and a military helicopter collided midair near Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday night. Both of the aircraft — an American Eagle jet and Army Black Hawk — are in the Potomac River. There were 64 people on the plane and three in the helicopter. …

President Donald Trump signed a memo Wednesday that sets in motion preparations for a facility to house thousands of migrants at the U.S. military camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, which he said was an effort to “halt the border invasion.” “I hereby direct the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary …

DOJ Pride, an LGBTQ employee resource group at the Department of Justice, has shut down more than a week after President Donald Trump signed an executive order seeking to root out all diversity, equity and inclusion measures from the federal government. The group “ceased to operate effective immediately,” the group’s …