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A small medical transport plane crashed in Chinle, Arizona, on Tuesday while traveling to pick up a patient, killing four people on the aircraft.The plane crashed and caught fire near the Chinle Airport around 12:40 p.m., according to the Navajo Police Department.All four people on board were confirmed dead, police said.DELTA FLIGHT DIVERTED TO MINNEAPOLIS AFTER SEVERE TURBULENCE, LEAVING 25 PEOPLE ON BOARD HOSPITALIZEDThe victims were not local to the […]

The Trump administration will eliminate Elon Musk's program that required federal employees to email a summary of five workplace achievements from the previous work week. The Office of Personnel Management [OPM] is announcing plans to end the required emails to HR representatives across the federal government on Tuesday, the administration confirmed to FOX Business. "We communicated with agency HR leads that OPM was no longer going to manage the five things process […]

A dream vacation took a dark turn after passengers on board a Celebrity Cruises vessel reportedly experienced a temporary loss of power over the weekend, leaving it adrift for several hours.The ship, Constellation, was sailing near the Italian coast on Saturday, Aug. 2, when it encountered a power outage that a spokesperson for Royal Caribbean Group, Celebrity Cruises’ parent company, described as a "technical issue."Reports indicate the vessel was without electricity […]

Almost half of the states in the country allow some illegal immigrants to benefit from in-state tuition in some form or another, with Texas being the first to do so but the most recent to undo its policy.Twenty-three states – plus the District of Columbia – offer undocumented students the ability to pay the same rate as residents, whether through waivers or established law.In 2001, Texas passed a law allowing […]

The Trump administration's effort to modernize federal payment systems is coming to Social Security, which will start phasing out paper Social Security checks.The Social Security Administration (SSA) announced in mid-July that it would no longer issue paper checks starting on Sept. 30. The agency noted in a blog post announcing the move that electronic funds transfers (EFTs) get payments to beneficiaries faster than paper checks, while also providing increased security against fraud and […]

Markets are increasingly pricing in the chances of the Federal Reserve cutting interest rates at its next meeting in September following last week's weaker-than-expected jobs report.The Fed's policymaking arm, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), has opted against cutting interest rates at all five of its meetings this year, including last week's, as stubborn inflation has remained higher than the central bank's 2% target and tariffs pose the threat of pushing inflation […]

President Donald Trump on Tuesday said Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent won't be in the running to become the next chair of the Federal Reserve. "He wants to stay where he is. I'll take him off the — because I asked him just last night, ‘Is this something you want?’ ‘Nope. I want to stay where I am.’ He actually said, ‘I want to work with you,’" Trump said during a CNBC […]

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, is placing a hold on three of President Donald Trump's nominees for the Treasury Department in protest against incoming rules that could limit tax credits for wind and solar energy.Grassley announced the move on Friday, saying he would temporarily block Trump's nominations for the department’s general counsel, assistant secretary and undersecretary.The senator noted that the Trump administration is planning to begin phasing out wind and solar […]

President Donald Trump's move to fire the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) after a weaker-than-expected July jobs report and large revisions has spurred questions about how the agency gauges changes in the U.S. workforce. Trump terminated BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer on Friday and claimed she "faked the Jobs Numbers before the Election."The BLS reported that last month the U.S. economy added 73,000 jobs, well below the gain of 110,000 […]