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Competitive figure skaters. Children. A flight attendant with a love of travel. A helicopter crew chief who had a smile for everyone, especially his son. As families grieve the lives lost Wednesday in D.C., they also shared some of their stories:
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A New York doctor was criminally indicted Friday for allegedly prescribing abortion pills to a girl in Louisiana.
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Air traffic controllers twice alerted the crew of a U.S. Army helicopter to the presence of an inbound American Airlines jet, with the first warning two minutes before the aircraft collided, radio transmissions show.
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President Donald Trump’s newly appointed chairman of the Federal Communications Commission has ordered an investigation into NPR and PBS over their alleged “airing of commercials.”
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Interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin has dismissed roughly 30 federal prosecutors who worked on Capitol riot cases in the Washington, D.C., office over the past four years, two people familiar with the matter said Friday.
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Tarryn Pitt is getting married in May, and she decided that everything at her wedding — from plates to picture frames — should come from a thrift store. “What we’re doing is super sustainable, and I love giving old things new life,” Pitt said.
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A pet owner lost control of his dog who ran away and disappeared in 2017. Nearly eight years later, the two have been reunited. “I was like, ‘Shut the front door!’” Paul Guilbeault remembered saying.
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Breaking news: Officials are working to identify potentially hundreds of agents for possible termination, said people familiar with the plans, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
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Anxiously anticipated federal data on student achievement show that children lost even more ground in the years immediately after the pandemic, particularly in reading.
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The Army released the names of two of three soldiers presumed to have been killed in a collision between a military helicopter and a passenger jet, taking the rare step of withholding the third soldier’s identify after her family requested so.
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Competitive figure skaters. Children. A flight attendant with a love of travel. A helicopter crew chief who had a smile for everyone, especially his son. As families grieve the lives lost Wednesday in D.C., they also shared some of their stories:
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Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, who were married, were former Russian figure skaters who went on to coach young skaters in Boston. Their son, Maxim Naumov, 23, competed in the men’s U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Wichita, finishing fourth, and left on an earlier
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As loved ones of the victims of the Black Hawk helicopter and American Eagle Flight 5342 crash grieve, they also shared with The Post memories of the lives they now mourn. We will continue to share some of those memories over the next few days as they come.
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Cutting back your phone use by just an hour a day can have significant health benefits, experts said. Here are tips on how to reduce your screen time this February.
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Breaking news: The Trump administration seeks to give immigration officers access to restricted information about migrant children and teens who crossed into the United States without parents, says White House border czar Tom Homan.
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An athletic director’s plea at Vanderbilt shows that in the NIL era of college athletics, even celebrations come with a cost-benefit analysis.
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