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The AI firm said that unlike previous model bugs, this issue "crept in subtly". [TheTopNews] Read More.27 mins ago - LISTEN: United Pilot Reports Hitting Drone Mid-Flight in Audio Recording
(AP Photo/David Zalubowski) A United Airlines pilot reported a possible drone strike at 3,000 feet on Wednesday, according to an eye-opening air traffic control audio. United flight 1980 departed San Francisco International Airport on Wednesday morning, and the pilot told the tower he had possibly “hit a drone.” “I believe I just saw like a red, small object, about 1,000 feet below us to our right,” the pilot said. United Airlines flight 1980 (Boeing 737) hit a drone over San Diego this morning around 3000 feet. Audio via @theATCapp pic.twitter.com/EFclpROOlL — Thenewarea51 (@thenewarea51) April 29, 2026 “United flight 1980 reported a possible drone just prior to arriving in San Diego. The flight landed safely, and customers deplaned normally at the gate. Our maintenance team found no damage after thoroughly inspecting the aircraft,” United Airlines said in a statement to KTLA. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) also released a statement, acknowledging the incident and saying there were no other reports of drone sightings by pilots the rest of the day. “While approaching San Diego International Airport at about 4,000 feet altitude, the crew of United Airlines Flight 1980 told air traffic control they believed they saw a drone 1,000 feet below them. Air traffic control alerted other pilots but did not receive any additional drone-sighting reports,” they said. The FBI in San Diego said they are “evaluating” the situation. “While our policy is to neither confirm nor deny investigations, we are working closely with our law enforcement partners to evaluate the situation,” they said. “If there is a violation of federal law within the FBI’s authorities, we will follow the facts wherever they may lead. As this is an ongoing matter, we do not have anything further.”The post LISTEN: United Pilot Reports Hitting Drone Mid-Flight in Audio Recording first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.42 mins ago - Maggie Haberman Draws Laughs by Comparing Trump to ‘Steak au Poivre’ in 86 4...
CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins laughed at New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman’s parable comparing President Donald Trump to “Steak au Poivre” to illustrate a point about the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey for posting a photograph of seashells forming the numerical phrase “86 47.” After the failures of revenge cases against Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James last year, news broke on Tuesday that a grand jury in North Carolina returned an indictment against Comey over an Instagram post that the Trump DOJ is claiming constituted a threat on President Donald Trump’s life. Legal experts from across the gamut deride the case as “weak” or even “fatally flawed.” On Wednesday night’s edition of CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins, Collins asked Haberman for her take on the case, and was understandably amused by the steak analogy — as well as the revelation that Haberman used to wait tables: COLLINS: When the President was talking about — the other thing he got asked about in the Oval Office today. We hadn’t heard him weigh in on, on James Comey being indicted for a second time today. What is your — what are you hearing from sources? What’s your reporting on that second indictment, and whether or not they actually think it will make it to trial or be successful? HABERMAN: It’s a great question, Kaitlan, and I don’t think we’re going to know for a while. I think that, you know, predictions tend to be somewhat useless. Although obviously saying that this was an immediate threat or an urgent threat, or whatever words have been described. I don’t know what they presented to the grand jury. But this took place a 11 months ago. So it’s not — it doesn’t seem as if this was something that was at the front burner. It is the second indictment that they have brought against him, and one was, as statute of limitations were about to expire, so I suspect that that will get raised by Comey’s lawyers. And then there’s the point of intent. And Comey took the post down. He apologized. Whether people think it was wise for him to post that or not, is an entirely different point. 86 is — yes, President Trump is right, that it sometimes can be used by mobsters. It originally was a restaurant term, as I understand it, and certainly when I was working at a restaurant, and we were saying we were 86-ing Steak au Poivre, it was… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - ‘You Don’t Go Full Bondi’: Joe Scarborough Warns Pete Hegseth How ‘Petul...Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough scolded Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over his combative appearance at Wednesday’s congressional hearing, mocking the performance as going “full Bondi” while also warning such “petulant” grandstanding has a track record of backfiring with President Donald Trump. Hegseth clashed with Democrats on the House Armed Services Committee as he used his first major appearance before Congress since the start of the Iran war to accuse lawmakers in both parties of undermining U.S. efforts with “feckless and defeatist words.” The hearing, formally convened to examine the Pentagon’s budget request, instead devolved into a heated exchange over the conflict, with Hegseth forcefully defending the operation. During Thursday’s opening hour on Morning Joe, Scarborough cast doubt on any assurances that Hegseth might have that his behavior would have impressed the president, zeroing in on the defense secretary’s insult to lawmakers as an “adversary” in his opening statement: When you see this petulant display, I can say people would say, ‘Oh, Donald Trump likes it’ – I don’t know. He didn’t like it when Pam Bondi did it! And yesterday reminded me of Pam Bondi’s performance, the worst performance on Capitol Hill I think, certainly, I’ve ever seen before the Armed Services Committee, when you actually tell Republicans and Democrats that they are a greater adversary than the Revolutionary Guard, that they are a greater adversary than the mullahs, the ayatollahs in Iran, that there are greater adversary than the government that has actually run a state that’s the epicenter of terrorism since 1979. The host went on to argue that the American public were “proud” of the military’s success and capability, adding that the right kind of messenger from the Trump administration might be able to help voters “understand” that on the “other side” of the conflict is a “safe world” and “safe Iran.” Hegseth, Scarborough followed, did not deliver that and instead “decided to go full Bondi.” “That was full Bondi,” co-host Mika Brzezinski echoed. “I think we all know this,” Scarborough continued. “You never go full Bondi right? You never go full Bondi. It never works. And he went full Bondi, man. You don’t go full Bondi. Don’t do it. He went full Bondi.” Hegseth is set to deliver his first Senate testimony since the start of the Iran war on Thursday morning, in a hearing officially focused on the Pentagon’s $1.5 trillion budget request.… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago
- New Poll: Paltry 28% of Americans Support Trump’s Ballroom
Andrew Leyden/NurPhoto via AP A new poll has found that just 28% of Americans support President Donald Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom, which is being built on the site of the demolished East Wing. The poll, which was conducted by the Washington Post, ABC News, and Ipsos this month, found that just 28% of Americans supported the project. A whopping 56% of Americans expressed opposition to the ballroom, while 16% said they were unsure. “The poll was conducted Friday through Tuesday, overlapping Saturday’s shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner,” the Washington Post reported. President Trump and his allies have cited the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner as further evidence for the need to have a secure White House ballroom. Skeptics, however, have pointed out that private events such as the Correspondents’ Dinner would be unlikely to be held in the White House ballroom, even if it were built. “The [White House] ballroom obviously needs to be built, but in the meantime, we’ve still got to secure the events outside of the ballroom,” said Fox News host Lawrence Jones on Monday. “Every single event that the president or cabinet members are gonna be [at] are not gonna be government events. Like for example, I’m not sure this Correspondents’ Association Dinner could have been held at the ballroom if it was built. It’s a private organization.” The National Trust for Historic Preservation has filed a lawsuit to stop construction on the White House ballroom. Trump’s Department of Justice fired back at the Trust in a motion this week, claiming that the organization was “very bad for our Country.”The post New Poll: Paltry 28% of Americans Support Trump’s Ballroom first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - CNN Anchor Torpedoes Scott Jennings on Racism: ‘As a Member of the Black Commu...CNN anchor Sara Sidner torpedoed GOP analyst Scott Jennings in a debate over racism and the Voting Rights Act by telling him, “As a member of the Black community,” his assertion was “not true.” The Supreme Court delivered a blow on Wednesday by voting to strike down a majority-Black congressional district in a 6-3 decision that has taken heavy criticism from proponents of a robust Voting Rights Act. On Wednesday’s edition of CNN NewsNight, guest anchor Sidner hosted a panel that included Jennings, Neera Tanden, T.W. Arrighi, John Avlon, Ana Navarro, and Donte Mills. As the panel hotly debated the VRA decision, Sidner cut in to rebut Jennings for saying “the people have” decided there’s no racism: NEERA TANDEN: Just to be clear, this is a congressionally passed law. It’s 60 years old. It’s implementing a constitutional amendment, the Voting Rights Act. The problem that with this — with this — with your description here is that you were presuming that we do not still have instances where states will choose to basically eliminate the voice of Black communities or Latino communities? UNKNOWN: How is it eliminating it? UNKNOWN: By lumping them together — TANDEN: Yes, by basically saying — (CROSSTALK) TANDEN: Yes, because what they do — yes, hold on, hold on. Let me just say, let me just say, if you take a district and you basically say it was going to be 80 percent Black district, and then you take that entire district and give 10 percent to everyone else, there’s the voice of the Black community is in a sense — (CROSSTALK) UNKNOWN: We’re missing a point here. SCOTT JENNINGS: But you’re assuming they would all vote — (CROSSTALK) TANDEN: But the real issue here is — ANA NAVARRO: No, no. Scott, listen. As somebody who’s lived this in Florida, Florida, you know, at one point was governed by a lot of good old boys who didn’t want Cubans elected, who tried to dilute that vote despite the fact that it was Republican. And if it hadn’t been for efforts like this, you know, I remember times in Florida, I remember the signs in Florida, no Blacks, no dogs, no Cubans. (CROSSTALK) TANDEN: That was a decision. NAVARRO: Right. Hold on. It was in my lifetime. It was in my lifetime. JENNINGS: Was that yesterday or was that like 50 years ago? NAVARRO: It was about 40… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
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