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Air traffic controllers in Washington and the pilots of President Donald Trump’s  helicopter met to discuss communication issues one week before a jet was allowed to take off just as Marine One left the White House, federal investigators said Thursday.Controllers reported not receiving the standard three-minute warning call ahead of Marine One flights and both sides agreed to an alternative in those instances.But the plan to relay the radio call through someone else was also unsuccessful on the day of the August 4 incident near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, the National Transportation Safety Board’s preliminary report shows.Having both the jet…

THE newly elected Church of Ireland Bishop of Cork previously admitted forging bank statements and putting €1,000 from a fund to help the poor in his own account.A damning dossier of documents obtained by the Mail shows how bishop-elect Andrew Orr confessed to mishandling the monies between 2005 and 2007.It also shows a litany of book-keeping errors, with money being taken from the parish’s operational account to shore up the fund, which had built up a near-€35,000 overdraft.A similar dossier was circulated to clergy in 2022, when Rev Orr was appointed archdeacon in the diocese.An independent audit of the discretionary…

The number of Australians missing in the catastrophic Nepal-Tibet floods has risen to 39. Foreign Minister Penny Wong confirmed the figure in a statement on Friday morning, announcing a $5 million humanitarian assistance package and additional personnel to help respond to the disaster.“We understand at least 39 Australians are among those reported missing. Australian officials are working urgently to confirm their welfare and provide assistance to those affected,” Wong said.Know the news with the 7NEWS app: Download today Arrow“The extraordinary scale of this disaster and the remoteness of the affected region mean immense challenges lie ahead for the response and…

A top boss at Canada’s tax-payer funded broadcaster allegedly banned journalists from referring to 9/11 as ‘terror attacks.’In an apparently leaked memo to staff obtained by the Toronto Sun, Basem Boshra told reporters and editors at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation: ‘Do not refer to the Sept 11 attacks as terrorist attacks.’The note goes on to advise reporters to say that ‘the hijackings led to passenger jet crashes in Washington, DC, Pennsylvania and Manhattan.’The World Trade Center (WTC in second reference) was destroyed,’ the memo continued, citing the CBC’s internal language guide. Boshra, the senior director of journalistic standards and public trust at CBC News, appears to have…

Hundreds of police officers from across England have been drafted in to restore order in Middlesbrough amid fears the town is on the brink of descending into a gang war. Violence, believed to be linked to five young men who were killed in a wrong-way crash on the A66 on Saturday, has spiralled across Teesside. This afternoon, armed police swarmed a house on the Bankfield estate in Eston after a 39-year-old man was injured in a stabbing. A house was also rammed by a vehicle this morning in South Bank.The suspected knife attack took place just down the road from a suspicious house fire…

A 16-year-old Utah boy has been charged with murdering his mom and younger brother over a year after they were shot dead in their home. The suspect, who has not been named because he is a minor, was 15 at the time that his mother Jessica Lyman, 44, and half-brother Eli Painter, eight, were killed in their home in Saratoga Springs, Utah on March 27, 2025. The teenager alleged he was sleeping when the violence unfolded and claimed not to know what happened when his 17-year-old sister found the bodies the next morning, prosecutors said in newly released court documents first reported…

The lost city of Atlantis could be hidden beneath an undisclosed stretch of the Atlantic Ocean, a retired US Navy admiral has claimed.Tim Gallaudet said he is working with researchers who believe detailed maps of the seabed contain features matching the legendary civilization’s ancient description.Atlantis was described by the Greek philosopher Plato more than 2,000 years ago as a wealthy island empire with a capital built around rings of land and water.According to the legend, violent earthquakes and floods swallowed the island in a single day and night. Plato’s Timaeus‘We believe we found the region in the Atlantic. We have…

British families have been in agony trying to contact loved ones missing in Nepal’s deadly ‘tsunami from the sky’.As rescuers battled to reach villages wiped out by Wednesday’s 600ft surging wall of mud, rock and ice, dozens of Britons remain unaccounted for.Relatives spent Thursday in tortuous limbo, frantically checking phone trackers and trying to call devices that would not connect.They spent the day desperately trying to contact anyone in the region who could help while some took it upon themselves and flew from Britain to the disaster zone.The monster mudslide swept away roads, bridges and homes in seconds, while also…

Backroom costs for Scotland’s NHS soared by £58million in just one year and the annual bill is now £1.1billion – enough to pay for 33,000 new nurses.While the NHS struggles to cope with pressure on the frontline, the bill for corporate functions like human resources, finance and communications has sky-rocketed.The soaring costs despite repeated promises by SNP ministers over several years to reform Scotland’s public sector to bring down costs.It led to renewed calls for the number of health boards to be cut so that back office savings can be reinvested to help ‘exhausted’ staff deal with the crisis on…

On a 2-acre property in Mississippi, 52-year-old Krystal Polk’s family lived off the land for generations, raising chickens and pigs, growing onions and herbs and trading their peaches for pears.The land, on the border with Tennessee in the city of Southaven, was her family’s survival, Polk said. “We lived a very simplistic life,” she told CBS News.While life there may have been simple in Polk’s view, the circumstances surrounding her home rarely ever were. Her family acquired the property “before people of color were allowed to have land,” she said, and it’s been passed down for four generations. When Polk’s…