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Worries deepen in US South after days of grappling with snow, ice and widespread outages 01/28/2026 07:41pm • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Conditions were growing more dire in parts of the South still reeling from subfreezing temperatures and widespread power outages as vehicles got stranded for hours on major highways and officials warned Wednesday that people stuck at home were running out of food, medicine an Maine plane crash victims include event planner and corporate pilot 01/28/2026 11:16am • PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — As snow from a massive storm began to fall in Bangor, Maine, on Sunday night, six people who had stopped to refuel a Paris-bound luxury jet prepared for takeoff. None would survive the crash that followed, the cause of which remains unknown. A departing plane ahead of them Six people died when a business jet trying to take off in Maine crashed in a snowstorm 01/28/2026 11:15am • PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Six people died when a business jet crashed during takeoff as a snowstorm moved in and visibility diminished in Maine Sunday night. The Bombardier Challenger 600 flipped over and burned on takeoff at Bangor International Airport around 7:45 p.m. Sunday night as the nation’ Swedish amusement park fined over fatal roller coaster derailment 01/28/2026 10:26am • STOCKHOLM (AP) — A Swedish amusement park was fined nearly $590,000 on Wednesday in connection with a roller coaster derailment that left one passenger dead and nine others injured, including several children. Witnesses at the Gröna Lund park described how the front of the Jetliner ride appeared Here are 5 great, small and used SUVs you can get for under $20,000 01/28/2026 07:35am • With the average cost of a new vehicle hovering around $50,000, buying a new SUV might seem well out of reach if you’re on a tight budget. But automakers have increasingly been selling entry-level SUVs that are smaller and less expensive than all-star SUVs like the Honda CR-V and Toyota RAV4. And India says it has contained Nipah virus outbreak as some Asian countries ramp up health screenings 01/28/2026 03:52am • NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian authorities said they had contained a Nipah virus outbreak after confirming two cases in the eastern state of West Bengal, as several Asian countries tightened health screenings and airport surveillance for travelers arriving from India. India’s Health Ministry said Tuesd What travelers can expect as Southwest Airlines introduces assigned seats 01/27/2026 07:13pm • Southwest Airlines passengers made their final boarding-time scrambles for seats on Monday as the carrier prepared to end the open-seating system that distinguished it from other airlines for more than a half‑century. Starting Tuesday, customers on Southwest flights will have assigned seats and t Tourism in Cuba plummets as tensions with US increase and Venezuela oil shipments drop 01/27/2026 05:29pm • HAVANA (AP) — It’s almost noon in Havana when a handful of tourists tumble out of a small yellow bus and rush toward a row of shiny classic cars, cameras in hand. Nearby, under the shade of a beach almond tree, a group of drivers jump to their feet, some hoping for their first customer of the da Russian drones kill 3 and wound children in Ukraine as Zelenskyy urges speedier diplomacy 01/27/2026 03:40pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A heavy Russian drone bombardment of Ukraine’s southern city of Odesa killed at least three people and wounded 23, including two children and a pregnant woman, officials said Tuesday, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called for speedier U.S. efforts to end Russia's Timeline of the year since an Army helicopter and plane collided over Washington, DC 01/27/2026 03:39pm • Investigators have uncovered several factors that contributed to the collision of a U.S. Army helicopter and a passenger airplane near Washington, D.C., last January, killing 67 people in the deadliest U.S. air disaster since 2001. The National Transportation Safety Board discussed the investigation Disaster on the Potomac, 1 year later: Collision could be defining moment in aviation history 01/27/2026 04:49am • Exactly one year ago, the nation's deadliest plane crash in decades occurred over the Potomac River, when an American Airlines regional jet on approach to Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, crashed with an Army helicopter on a training flight. Everyone on board both aircraft — 64 Philippines grounds company's fleet of passenger ships after at least 18 die in ferry sinking 01/27/2026 03:49am • MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine officials on Tuesday grounded the entire fleet of passenger ships belonging to a company that owned a ferry that sank in the south and left at least 18 people dead, with more than 300 others rescued. Ten people, mostly crew members and the captain of the M/V T Passengers at DC-area airports hopeful flights will take off after snowy travel nightmares 01/26/2026 03:05pm • Passengers at the D.C. region's three major airports are optimistic their flights will take off Monday, after the weekend's snow, sleet and ongoing brutal cold temperatures. "It's 70 degrees in Phoenix, we're looking forward to going home," said one teacher at Dulles International Airport, wh A Minnesota nurse is the 6th person to die during the US immigration crackdown 01/26/2026 01:37pm • At least six people have died during the Trump administration's intense immigration enforcement campaign in the U.S., the latest being a 37-year-old man who was shot by a Border Patrol officer in Minneapolis. Federal authorities immediately described Alex Pretti, a U.S. citizen, as an armed agitator Balkan truck drivers block cargo border crossing in protest of EU entry rules 01/26/2026 11:40am • ODZAK, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Truck drivers from Balkan countries outside the European Union blocked cargo border crossings in the region Monday to protest the recent enforcement of EU entry regulations that they say seriously undermine their work. Long columns of trucks formed at freight borde