A helicopter landing on the West Side of Manhattan came up short of the landing pad and ended up in the Hudson River Wednesday afternoon.
It happened in the vicinity of West 30th Street and the West Side Highway.
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The nation’s top aviation regulator assured Congress on Wednesday that the Boeing 737 Max, grounded after two deadly accidents, will only return to flying when a government analysis shows that it is safe.
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The U.S. on Wednesday ordered all nonessential government staff to leave Iraq, and Germany and the Netherlands both suspended their military assistance programs in the country in the latest sign of tensions sweeping the Persian Gulf region over still-unspecified threats that the Trump administration says are linked to Iran.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Wednesday that it’s up to the courts to referee his dispute with House Democrats demanding access to President Donald Trump’s tax returns.
Mnuchin told a Senate panel that the fight between the administration and the House Ways and Means Committee chairman, Rep.

An earthquake was felt in many parts of Israel, Wednesday evening.
YWN readers felt the quake in Jerusalem, Bnei Brak, Be’er Sheva, Modiil, Kfar Saba and many other locations.
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by Mussi Sharfstein
Prison inmates are allotted a limited amount of visiting hours from family and friends. But for too many, visitors are rare. For some prisoners, years can pass before they receive a personal visit—whether it’s because they’re too far from family and friends for regular visitation or because their relationships have frayed.

Ben Shapiro explains why Palestinian Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s (D-MI) recent comments on a “calming feeling” about the Holocaust  are anti-Semitic: “She perfectly well understands the actual history here, but the revisionist history serves an anti-Semitic goal, which is that Israel is illegitimate and ought to be abolished”.

Intel has revealed another hardware security flaw that could affects millions of machines around the world.
The bug is embedded in the architecture of computer hardware, and it can’t be fully fixed.
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International worries that the Trump administration is sliding toward war with Iran flared into the open amid skepticism about its claims that the Islamic Republic poses a growing threat to the U.S.

The House Intelligence Committee has called four lawyers linked to President Donald Trump and his family for interviews as part of an investigation into whether they tried to obstruct the panel’s inquiry into Russian election interference.
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