Air Canada Pilots Killed in LaGuardia Crash Were Early in Flying Careers

The pilots were identified as Antoine Forest, 30, and Mackenzie Gunther. They were the only two fatalities in the plane’s collision with a fire truck at New York’s LaGuardia Airport.The wreckage of an Air Canada Express jet after it collided with a fire truck at LaGuardia Airport on Sunday.

P Pranav Baskar, Vjosa Isai, Hurubie Meko and Norimitsu Onishi

LaGuardia Crash Tests New Port Authority Leader

Kathryn Garcia, who began leading the agency in February, consoled two injured firefighters and dealt with delays at the three big airports serving New York City.Kathryn Garcia, the executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, met with two employees who were injured in the co

P Patrick McGeehan

N.C. Senator Phil Berger Officially Just Lost to Sam Page

Phil Berger had money, power and an endorsement from President Trump. But his critics had a long list of resentments and, on Tuesday, he lost by a mere 23 votes.Phil Berger is the country’s longest-serving active State Senate leader.

E Eduardo Medina

Newsom Says He Regrets Remarks Comparing Israel to ‘Apartheid State’

The California governor suggested that he had meant to refer to Israel’s potential future direction, not its current policies. “I revere the state of Israel,” he said.Gov. Gavin Newsom of California has long been a supporter of Israel, but he has stepped up his criticism of its government more recen

J Jennifer Medina

Republicans Step Up Efforts to Reach DHS Funding Deal and End Shutdown

A day after President Trump said he did not want a compromise, Senate Republicans sent Democrats a plan that would break off ICE enforcement funding and reopen the rest of the department.Senate Republicans said they would seek to fund ICE enforcement operations through a separate bill that would not

M Michael Gold

TSA Airport Delays: What It’s Like Waiting in Line for Hours

Scenes from extra long lines at two airports, and a surprising discovery at a third.Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport employees directing passengers in line at a Transportation Security Administration checkpoint on Monday.

A Alan Blinder, Shannon Sims and Mark Bonamo

Trump Picks ‘Alpha Male’ Influencer to Be Tourism Envoy

Nick Adams, known for his crass humor and internet trolling, was previously nominated to be the ambassador to Malaysia. But his nomination was pulled earlier this year.President Trump picked Nick Adams for a newly created position: the “special presidential envoy for American tourism, exceptionalism

C Chris Cameron

Key Adviser Quits Federal Vaccine Panel

Dr. Robert Malone, vice chair of the committee, was appointed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after a purge of the previous advisers.Dr. Robert Malone, the vice chair of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, during a meeting at the C.D.C. in Atlanta in December.

A Apoorva Mandavilli

Delta Air Lines Says It Will Suspend Special Services for Congress Members

Airport escorts and “red coat” assistance for lawmakers will be suspended, the airline said on Tuesday, citing the extended partial government shutdown.Delta Air Lines said that it would suspend special services for members of Congress, amid a stalemate over funding for the Department of Homeland Se

L Livia Albeck-Ripka

Supreme Court Seems Open to Trump Request to Block Asylum Seekers at Border

A policy of turning back many asylum seekers at the border was rescinded in 2021, but the Justice Department wants the flexibility to reinstate it as a tool for border control.Migrants approved for asylum appointments with Customs and Border Protection lined up for permission to travel to the U.S. i

A Ann E. Marimow

T.S.A. Tipped Off ICE Agents Before Arrests at San Francisco Airport

Transportation Security Administration officials told ICE that a mother and daughter under a detention order had planned to fly domestically, federal documents show.Angelina Lopez-Jimenez and her 9-year-old daughter were detained at the San Francisco International Airport and later deported to Guate

H Hamed Aleaziz and Heather Knight

Costa Rica Agrees to Take Migrants Deported by the Trump Administration

The agreement is part of President Trump’s efforts to find governments willing to accept people who have been detained in the United States.Then-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem with President Rodrigo Chaves Robles of Costa Rica during a news conference last year in San José, Costa Rica.

E Emiliano Rodríguez Mega

The U.S. Military Said It Helped Bomb a Drug Camp in Ecuador. It Was a Dairy Farm.

The Times visited a village where the United States and Ecuador said they destroyed an armed group’s training camp. Residents said it was actually a dairy farm.The remains of a dairy cattle farm in San Martín that was burned and bombed by the Ecuadorean military.

L Luis Ferré-Sadurní, José María León Cabrera, Annie Correal, Eric Schmitt and Federico Rios

San Francisco Killed 8th-Grade Algebra. Now It’s Set to Come Back.

The San Francisco school board will vote on a plan to restore algebra as an option at all middle schools, more than a decade after it was removed over equity concerns.The decision to stop offering algebra in middle school frustrated some families in the San Francisco Unified School District.

D Dana Goldstein

Russian Oil Shipment Puts Focus on Kremlin Spy Outpost in Cuba

Moscow may be challenging President Trump’s effort to choke Cuba’s economy. China also has suspected listening posts on the island.Mr. Trump has spoken of using his economic leverage to mount a “friendly takeover” of Cuba and is pressing for the ouster of its president, Miguel Díaz-Canel.

M Michael Crowley