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Greg Biffle’s Plane Turned Back Minutes After Takeoff

The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the crash at a North Carolina airport, which killed seven people, including the driver Greg Biffle and his wife and children.

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Emergency vehicles responding to the plane crash that killed the star NASCAR driver Greg Biffle, his family and three others at a regional airport in Statesville, N.C., on Thursday.

U.S. Strikes Islamic State Targets in Syria

American forces struck dozens of suspected ISIS sites, making good on President Trump’s vow to avenge two American soldiers and a civilian U.S. interpreter killed by the group last week.

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The strikes signal a sharp military escalation in Syria at a time when the United States has reduced its presence in the country since the beginning of the year.

Trump Picks New Leader for Southern Command as Venezuela Pressure Grows

Lt. Gen. Francis L. Donovan, a Marine general with expansive experience in special operations and the Middle East, would take over after the abrupt departure of the previous commander.

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If confirmed by the Senate, Lt. Gen. Francis L. Donovan would take over as boat strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific have come under sharp criticism from lawmakers from both parties.

Mamdani Names Deputy Mayors for Housing and Economic Justice

Zohran Mamdani, New York City’s mayor-elect, tapped Leila Bozorg, a longtime public official and development advocate, and Julie Su, who served as acting secretary of labor in the Biden administration.

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Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announced on Friday the appointments of Julie Su, left, and Leila Bozorg, center, at a garage on Staten Island that will be converted into affordable housing.

Emily Korzenik, 96, Dies; Rabbi Took a Bar Mitzvah to Poland

Part of the first generation of women ordained in America, she presided over the first bar mitzvah in Krakow, still scarred by the Holocaust, in decades. It did not go smoothly.

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Rabbi Emily Faust Korzenik in Stamford, Conn., in 2003. For 25 years she presided over the Fellowship for Jewish Learning, a congregation there.
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