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Coast Guard finds medical plane debris amid search off Nantucket
The U.S. Coast Guard has found debris from the missing medical transport aircraft that was carrying six people from Bermuda to Boston when it lost contact with the Federal Aviation Administration early Saturday, prompting a massive search off the coast of Massachusetts, a source familiar with the situation tells NBC News.The search for survivors continues, the source added.This is a breaking news update. Original story below.The U.S. Coast Guard is searching off the coast of Massachusetts for a missing medical transport aircraft that was carrying six people from Bermuda to Boston when it lost contact with the Federal Aviation Administration early Saturday.A search and rescue alert notice was issued for the Gulfstream G-100 aircraft around 1:20 a.m. local time on Saturday, the FAA said. The flight departed from L.F. Wade International Airport in Bermuda and was headed to Boston Logan International Airport with four crew members and two passengers on board.The Coast Guard Northeast District said there were crews searching in the air and on the water for the missing aircraft Saturday, noting the current search area is “off the coast of Nantucket.” The FAA is coordinating with the Coast Guard, as well as the Rescue Coordination Center, to locate the air ambulance.Massport confirmed in a statement to NBC10 Boston that the aircraft did not arrive at Boston Logan Airport as scheduled.“Our thoughts are with those on board and their loved ones as the search continues,” a Massport spokesperson said.Air traffic control audio posted by LiveATC.net offered a fragmentary and troubling glimpse of the flight's final communications. "Roger, you said you're coming in blind. Is that what you said?" a controller can be heard asking the pilot. The pilot's transmission could not be heard in the recording. The controller later confirmed the pilot was declaring an emergency just before losing contact with the plane.The controller then asked other aircraft in the area if they showed the Gulfstream jet on their collision avoidance systems or whether they could reach them on the radio, but the medevac plane with the call sign "Heartbeat 104" was never heard from again.The aircraft, with Canadian aircraft registration C-GJRP, is owned by Latitude Air Ambulance of Hamilton, Ontario, FlightRadar24 shows.The director of flight operations at Latitude Air Ambulance told NBC News that the plane was carrying out a medical evacuation in Bermuda. "We always get rather concerned when our crew doesn't report to us in a timely manner," Clarence Togeretz told NBC News. "But I will say that again, optimistically and positively, that doesn't mean that the worst has happened."Togeretz added that Latitude Air Ambulance had an emergency response plan in place "absolutely for anything that might occur to any of our missions."Four of the six people on board the flight that went missing early Saturday were Canadian nationals, the country's Minister of Transport Steven MacKinnon said on X. Transport Canada is closely monitoring and working with authorities on search and rescue efforts, he said.The Government of Bermuda said that it has been in contact with the families of those on board and remains in contact with the overseas authorities coordinating the search."My thoughts are with everyone on board and their families during this deeply worrying time,” Premier David Burt said. “We are praying that all six people will be found safe, and we thank the search and rescue crews for their continuing efforts."The National Transportation Safety Board said it was gathering information about the situation Saturday morning but had no further update to share.The search remains ongoing. Additional information will be released as it becomes available.The Associated Press contributed to this reportThis story originally appeared on NBCBoston.com.This story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.
Tennessee's prisons chief is resigning after failed execution of Christa Pike
The head of Tennessee’s prison system is resigning, Gov. Bill Lee announced Saturday, the first major shake-up since the stunning failed execution of Christa Pike landed her on a ventilator at a hospital.Frank Strada, commissioner of the Department of Correction, will step down this month, Lee said.Strada said in a statement that resigning was "in the best interest of Tennesseans" while an independent review determines what happened Wednesday when the state failed to execute Pike despite administering two doses of a lethal drug. "I believe this review is entirely appropriate and necessary, and I look forward to doing everything I can to help determine exactly what occurred," Strada said.Pike was taken to a hospital, where she was on a ventilator and unconscious in the following hours, her attorneys said in a court filing Friday.Hospital staff were working to save Pike's life and, as of late Thursday, were trying to clear the two doses of pentobarbital, which the state uses to execute prisoners, lawyers said. Death Penalty Oct 2 Christa Pike on ventilator, unconscious after failed execution, attorneys say Crime and Courts Nov 26, 2025 8 executions in October: Why the death penalty is being used more in the U.S. this year The shocking failure has left both sides of the death penalty debate demanding answers. Lee has ordered an independent review and halted any new executions. Strada said he believes the state "carried out its responsibilities in accordance with the established protocol."Pike’s legal team welcomed Strada’s departure but said "it does nothing to help Christa now.""What happened to her Wednesday reflects a systemic failure that goes far beyond any one person," the four-lawyer team said. "We hope the governor's call for a full, independent review will expose the profound problems within Tennessee's entire death penalty system."Pike's attorneys said they believed problems with the IV lines caused the pentobarbital to flow into her body instead of her bloodstream.Strada took over the Correction Department in January 2023 after serving as deputy director of the Arizona Department of Corrections. In late 2024, he announced that Tennessee was changing its lethal injection protocol and would use only pentobarbital.Four people have been executed in Tennessee since 2025, according to the Correction Department.Pike was 18 when she and her boyfriend tortured and killed a classmate, Colleen Slemmer, in a jealous rage. She later became one of the youngest women to be sent to death row.
What to know about the investigation into Cornell University gang rape allegations
An intense, public outcry over a woman’s account of being gang-raped at a Cornell University fraternity house prompted New York’s governor this week to angrily yank control of the investigation away from the local prosecutor who didn’t initially see what happened as a crime.Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten has said Cornell police omitted key information that could have affected his decision whether or not to pursue criminal charges.Now, the task of unraveling the case will fall to the state’s attorney general, Letitia James, who was appointed as a special prosecutor. James, a Democrat best known for tangling with President Donald Trump, suggested at a news conference Friday that her investigation wouldn’t be rushed. She described it as a monthslong process, with no predetermined outcome.Here's what we know and don't know about the woman’s allegations and the investigations that followed: Cornell 18 hours ago DA did not review witness statements and other evidence Cornell police collected in alleged gang rape of student New York Oct 2 NY Gov. Kathy Hochul says Cornell rape accuser was 'failed' by the system A lawsuit shone a fresh light on the woman’s allegationsThe woman sued Cornell and seven former students last month, alleging she was given ketamine and became completely incapacitated while members of the Chi Phi fraternity sexually assaulted her at their campus residence in October 2024.She reported the alleged assault to campus police about three weeks later, giving investigators a detailed account over two days. She also spoke with Cornell's disciplinary investigators.But Van Houten quickly declined to pursue charges or further investigation after reviewing a police summary of her interview.After the victim filed her civil suit, Van Houten said it contained allegations he had never seen. He contended Cornell's police had withheld key information, including a transcript of the woman's interview where she explicitly said she was "100% confident" she was raped. Van Houten said the materials suggested she had consented to some sex with multiple men, hadn’t been forced into other acts, and was intoxicated, but not to the point of helplessness.Under New York law, being too drunk or high to consent to sex isn't necessarily enough to support a rape charge. The law distinguishes that from being physically helpless or incapacitated by drugs administered without consent.Van Houten later reopened the investigation. "Seeking justice sometimes requires us to reconsider or reopen cases when we are provided with additional evidence," he said. The school's investigation produced conflicting accountsOnly a fraction of the evidence collected by the school has become public, but the portions that have provided a fuller — though disputed — timeline of events, as well as a glimpse at how the men responded to being accused.According to the records, the woman had been invited to the fraternity by a member for whom she had long held strong romantic feelings. Cornell’s disciplinary panel found that she initially consented to sex with that man and one of his friends, though she later alleged in her lawsuit that she had been pressured into taking drugs and alcohol and was too intoxicated to consent.Later, other men started coming into the room, some drawn by a message one of the fraternity brothers sent to a Snapchat group at 1:42 a.m. using a vulgar term to advertise that a woman's body was freely available. The woman told investigators that her intoxication had rendered her partly defenseless. She said some of the men inhaled drugs off her unclothed body."I felt like bait. I felt like lions around me. It just was a totally debilitating place to be in," she told investigators.The records also show that she acknowledged that her memory of the night was spotty, due to her extreme inebriation, and had verbally acquiesced to some acts she later felt were sexual abuse.Some of the accused men disputed her account when speaking to investigators, or said that the drug use and sexual activity were consensual. Cornell hasn't detailed the results of its investigation, but said it resulted in some students being expelled. The records show it also cleared at least some of the men of sexual assault allegations.New York’s governor was outraged by the police investigationHochul said she appointed James because she had lost faith in Van Houten’s handling of the case. She said Van Houten should have asked Cornell for more information and interviewed the woman before closing it. "This woman, this young woman, had already endured something that is utterly unspeakable," she said. "And then at every turn, she was failed by people and institutions with an obligation to protect her."Van Houten said he supports James' appointment but maintains that New York law didn't allow him to prosecute based solely on the woman's allegations that she was too incapacitated to consent.The case sparks calls for changeAt a Cornell Student Assembly meeting Thursday, students and other members of the university community spent more than 2 1/2 hours discussing the handling of sexual assault allegations. Some expressed fear, anger, and grief — while others shared their own experiences of sexual violence on campus.Among them was Jane Wang, who said she had reported being sexually assaulted at Cornell a year earlier.When she filed her Title IX case in the midst of "mental, physical and emotional recovery from the assault," she said, "I was also met with an abundance of paperwork, very little instruction on how to navigate it and no follow-up from our Title IX office of an outcome." The presidents of every fraternity in Cornell's Interfraternity Council voted unanimously to cancel social events this weekend in response to the allegations, according to The Cornell Daily Sun. Twenty student organizations are also planning a protest Monday calling for an independent review of Cornell's handling of the case and changes to its sexual assault policies, the newspaper reported.The case has also renewed scrutiny of a New York sexual assault law that makes it more difficult to prosecute cases involving people too intoxicated to consent. New York is one of 19 states with such laws.Hochul said Friday that she supports changing the law.
Trump announces $90 payments for millions of seniors on Medicare ahead of midterm elections
President Donald Trump is promising more payments to voters just ahead of the Nov. 3 midterm elections — this time, to more than 20 million seniors, giving them $90 each to help pay for Medicare premiums.The announcement, made late Friday night by Trump on social media, comes after the president last month said about 1 million people would get rebate checks of $500 for Affordable Care Act premiums. He has also promised on the campaign trail to send every American adult $5,000 if Republicans retain control of the House and Senate in the midterm elections.That pledge — which would require approval from Congress — would likely cost more than $1 trillion, adding to the deficit and worsening inflation.Polls show Americans increasingly blame Trump for the high cost of gasoline and groceries with just 17% approving of his handling of inflation. Trump has sought to shrug off concerns about affordability, saying the economy is booming.The White House said the $90 payments for seniors will come from the Medicare Improvement Fund, established by Congress in 2008 as flexible funding to improve program operations and payments to health care providers. Donald Trump Sep 10 Trump wants to send Americans money. Congress, economists don't seem thrilled with idea Trump administration Sep 10 Trump promises $500 Obamacare rebate checks for 1M enrollees Medicare Part B enrollees can expect to receive a one-time payment in October, either through direct deposit or by check, the White House said. Total monthly costs for the program — which covers costs like doctor’s visits, ambulance services and lab tests — start around $200 and vary with income.To be eligible, seniors must be living in the U.S. and not be already receiving premium assistance from Medicaid or paying adjusted monthly premiums based on income, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Seniors enrolled in Medicare Advantage, a private plan alternative to traditional Medicare coverage, are not eligible for the payment. More than half of eligible Medicare beneficiaries have Medicare Advantage, according to healthcare research nonprofit KFF.Previous administrations have not used the Medicare Improvement Fund in this way, although Congress has periodically taken out money from the fund to pay for other priorities, said Larry Levitt, KFF’s executive vice president for health policy. For example, $20.74 billion was used for the creation of the Affordable Care Act in 2010."The Medicare Improvement Fund language is quite broad and gives substantial discretion to the administration," Levitt said.
Coast Guard searching for plane with 6 aboard that lost contact on trip from Bermuda to Boston
A plane with six people aboard lost contact during a flight from Bermuda to Boston, and the U.S. Coast Guard says it is searching for the missing aircraft off the coast of Nantucket. The Coast Guard says the Federal Aviation Administration reported that the Gulfstream G100 lost contact very early Sa...
Lamine Yamal stars again as Spain see off Czechia and maintain perfect start
Lamine Yamal says he feels like Superman or Spider-Man sometimes, and Spain's fans are starting to wonder if he just might be. There is something comic book hero about what the teenager is doing right now, some unexplained super power swelling inside him. For the third consecutive game he scored inside six minutes, curling in another outrageous goal as Spain completed their World Cup homecoming in Oviedo with a 3-1 win over Czechia that leaves them a single point from the Nations League quarter finals already. Spain's manager, Luis de la Fuente, put it simply: "Lamine Yamal is on course to become a legend."And yet in a game which seemed to have been done at half-time, when Spain led 2-0 after Rodrigo Hernandez had added the second and Lamine Yamal was withdrawn, his show seemingly over, the danger returned. Czechia, vastly improved after the break, pulled one back through Jiri Slama on 69 and then were denied a 79th-minute equaliser when Vassilis Fotias, the referee, who rescued Spain, harshly ruled out a Ryan Naderi goal – apparently for a foul on Robin Le Normand as the free-kick that led to it was swung in. Continue reading...
Search underway after Ontario air ambulance misses Boston landing with 6 inside - CTV News
Search underway after Ontario air ambulance misses Boston landing with 6 inside  CTV News
Woman, 22, charged after man stabbed at Mississauga bus terminal
A 22-year-old woman has been charged following a stabbing at Mississauga’s local bus terminal on Friday night. Police in Peel Region were on patrol in the terminal near Square One mall just after 9:30 p.m. when bystanders alerted them to an incident nearby. Officers pursued the suspect who was quickly taken into custody. Tyannah Witty, […]
Flydubai co-pilot used crash axe to attack captain, says UAE
Attorney general says 'terrorist attack' was attempted by suspect who is said to have been barred from flying by Oman because of extremist viewsThe co-pilot of flydubai flight FZ1073 used an axe to attempt to carry out a "terrorist attack" during the Israel-bound flight, the United ⁠Arab Emirates prosecutor general has said.Disaster was narrowly averted on Wednesday when passengers and crew intervened to stop the co-pilot's attempt to take control of the plane, which had 182 people onboard and plunged 16,625ft in just over 30 seconds. The descent was so extreme that part of the rudder was ripped off. Continue reading...
India beat arch-rivals Pakistan in Japan to claim Asian Games cricket gold
India 211-6; Pakistan 192-6 in Twenty20 cricket finalCaptains refuse traditional pre-match handshakesIndia's men beat their fierce rivals Pakistan by 19 runs to complete a golden double in the Asian Games cricket after a pulsating final in front of a small but raucous crowd in Nagoya, Japan. The T20 world champions posted 211 for six in their 20 overs with Abhishek Sharma scoring 61 and Tilak Varma 51 not out, before Hasan Nawaz's valiant 96 saw Pakistan come up short at 192 for six.The neighbouring countries only meet in international tournaments and on neutral ground because of political tensions and the captains refused the normal handshakes before the match on Saturday. Afterwards, the jubilant India players paraded their national flag around the ground. The clash on a converted baseball field in Japan was new ground for even these rivals and their hundreds of millions of fans who were watching back home on television. Continue reading...
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Tracker — 4x1: "Safe Harbor" (CBS)

Colter's search for a teenage boy's missing father leads him to a dangerous criminal operation at the Port of Los Angeles. 

The Simpsons — 38x2: "Diary of a Chimpy Kid" (FOX)

Bart and Lisa adopt an abandoned baby chimp and clash over their surprisingly different parenting styles. When the chimp is abducted by a private wild animal zoo, the family goes on a mission to rescue him. Homer is conflicted about saving the ape, because he's convinced the chimp will tear off his face and groin.

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