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3+ min ago (286+ words) A female flight instructor and a father-to-be are presumed dead after a small plane crashed into Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana on Nov. 24. Search teams performed recovery efforts an hour after the crash, discovering a seat cushion and other debris believed to be from the aircraft, the Coast Guard said. Search efforts continued for almost two days before being suspended Nov. 26. The New Orleans Police Department said Nov. 28 it had identified additional items it believed to be debris from the plane, according to WWLTV. In addition, the United Cajun Navy said it had located more wreckage from the crash using specialized sonar, divers, and search dogs. Carastro addressed his firm's reaction to the crash. "It was an unbelievable tragedy " I've been instructing for 46 years. I've never " never "had this. This is my first. So it's hitting me pretty hard, too, as…...

4+ min ago (453+ words) A flight instructor and her student, a U.S. Navy officer who was also a father-to-be, are presumed dead after their small plane plunged into a New Orleans lake, according to authorities and local reports. Jahn, a Civil Engineer Corps officer with the Navy Seabees based in Gulfport, Mississippi, was married to his wife, Taylor, who is five months pregnant, the United Cajun Navy told Fox News Digital on Sunday. He was nearing his commercial pilot's license with just under 250 flight hours, according to the flight school. The United Cajun Navy added that the pilot instructor "was known for her strong faith, her love of flying, and her commitment to mentoring other women in aviation." FAMILY MATRIARCH DIES DAY AFTER RESCUE FROM REMOTE ISLAND THAT SAW FAMILY SWIM ASHORE TO ESCAPE BOAT FIRE David Michael Jahn has been presumed dead after the…...

7+ min ago (227+ words) Ahh " the passion of college football. When Lane Kiffin arrived in Oxford to take the reins as Ole Miss head coach, Rebel Nation rolled out the red carpet and gave him a rock-star welcome the moment his plane touched down. Kiffin, now headed to LSU as their new head coach, received a far chillier send-off Sunday as he prepared to leave Oxford. A furious crowd of Ole Miss fans gathered outside the University-Oxford Airport gates, unleashing a barrage of middle fingers and boos as Kiffin, his family and staff boarded two LSU-chartered planes bound for Baton Rouge. (RELATED: Leaked Audio: Ole Miss Meeting Reveals Program Not Worried At All About Lane Kiffin Leaving) John Talty of CBS Sports snapped a picture of angry Ole Miss fans flipping off the idling LSU jets, while video captured the crowd erupting in boos…...

8+ min ago (810+ words) From a policy point of view, it is too late for the Federal Reserve to prevent financial market bubbles from being formed. That train has long since left the station. However, the least that the Fed can do is to stop inflating the bubble with an unduly easy monetary policy stance. The post The Bitcoin Canary in the Coalmine? appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI. In his classic study of financial market crises, "Manias, Crashes, and Panics, Charles Kindleberger observed that "financial market bubbles always implode: by definition a bubble involves a non-sustainable pattern of price changes or cash flows. In his view, bubbles burst when the speculative mania runs out of greater fools to keep the bubble from inflating. If we are looking for a recent example of an imploding bubble, we need look no further than Bitcoin's…...

12+ min ago (618+ words) ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 787 Stav Levaton is a military reporter for The Times of Israel A former commander of the Israeli Air Force warned Monday that Israel will face threats in the coming years that are more severe than what it experienced during and since the Hamas attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023. Speaking at a defense summit at Tel Aviv University, Amir Eshel " who also served as the director general of the Defense Ministry from May 2020 to February 2023 " called for urgent national preparation and large-scale investment in defense innovation. Eshel outlined a future battlefield flooded with "magnitudes [more threats] than the Iranian attack on October 1, 2024," including stealth and AI-powered autonomous drones, along with electronic warfare, directed-energy weapons, cyber operations, and attacks on critical civilian and military infrastructure. During that attack, Iran fired 181 ballistic missiles at Israel, most of which…...

12+ min ago (316+ words) US President Donald Trump warned Israel via social media on Monday against destabilizing Syria and its new leadership, shortly before holding a phone conversation with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. "It is very important that Israel maintain a strong and true dialogue with Syria, and that nothing takes place that will interfere with Syria's evolution into a prosperous State," Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform, days after a deadly operation by Israeli forces in the south of the country. Trump said he was "very satisfied" with Syria's current performance under former Islamist rebel President Ahmed al-Sharaa, who made a historic visit to the White House in November. The US president said Sharaa "is working diligently to make sure good things happen, and that both Syria and Israel will have a long and prosperous relationship together." He added that the United…...

13+ min ago (609+ words) Santa Claus is coming to town " the Town of Oyster Bay, that is. Residents in the Long Island community are on a mission to host the municipality's largest-ever toy drive and donate more than 50,000 holiday gifts to kids in need this season, building on half a decade of good tidings. "The people here are so generous. We did 19,000 toys in 2020, then 25,000 the next year, then 34,000, then 38,000, and last year was 42,000," Town Supervisor Joseph Saladino told The Post. "This year, Santa will need a bigger sleigh. We want to hit that 50,000 number for the first time," he said. The Toys For Tots-partnered donation event will be held Dec. 6 at Massapequa's Burns Park from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and includes hours of fun for kids, plus a visit from Santa and Mrs. Claus. Massive turnout from the past five years was a silver lining of…...

14+ min ago (279+ words) More than a dozen people were arrested in Provo early Sunday when police busted an illegal cockfighting operation. Police say the investigation began as a "welfare check." "During the course of a welfare check, officers were alerted to possible organized fighting involving roosters located at 1215 W. 600 South. Further investigation into the address history showed that there was a previous report of animal fighting, back in 2019," a police booking affidavit states. As part of their investigation, detectives flew a drone over the property and observed several people entering and exiting a shed. "Drone footage also showed several vehicles in the parking area and showed people loading cages in and out of vehicles," according to the affidavit. An officer in an unmarked vehicle then got close enough to the shed where he "could see flashing lights coming from the shed and I could…...

14+ min ago (404+ words) A transgender patient secretly recorded a cancer surgery and later sued after hearing hospital employees seemingly discuss his identity during the operation, The New York Times (NYT) reported Monday. Several hospital employees allegedly discussed Capasso's transgender identity throughout the surgery, though the hospital denies that the employees were mocking Capasso's identity, according to court filings cited by the outlet. "Not that it's not right," one person said in the recording, according to the NYT. "It's not," another voice reportedly replied. "It doesn't make sense." "I don't get any of it, I'm sorry." Another employee reportedly suggested that it is "hard to understand" transgender identity "because you don't see it every day; you're not living it." Memorial Sloan Kettering suggested in response to the lawsuit that Capasso's actions raised concerns about the health care workers' privacy, the NYT reported. "The secret…...

15+ min ago (505+ words) A new study serves as a sobering warning to parents to avoid giving smartphones to their kids until absolutely necessary. A study released this week shows the real damage smartphones can cause to the developing brain of a preteen. It serves as a sobering warning to many phone-addicted adults to both lay off the electronics themselves and delay giving smartphones to kids. First, it found that most kids have smartphones. More than 95 percent of teens aged 13-17 have a smartphone; more than half (57 percent) of tweens aged 11-12 had a smartphone; and 29 percent of kids aged 8-10 had one. Any adult who has doomscrolled at 3 a.m. knows how addictive smartphones can be. What happens to a child's health when hours of screentime are added to his life? Researchers looked at 12-year-olds, comparing those with phones to those without a phone, and found that "smartphone…...