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Allyson Versprille
Passengers wait in a Transportation Security Administration security checkpoint queue at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) in Baltimore, Maryland, on Sunday.
WORLD
Mar 31, 2026
Long airport waits ease after TSA workers receive back pay
The longest lines in history at many airports earlier this month forced flyers to miss their flights and consider other travel options.
An Air Canada Express jet that collided with a fire truck on a runway on Sunday remains at LaGuardia Airport in New York, on Tuesday.
WORLD
Mar 25, 2026
Safety system failed to alert LaGuardia tower before crash
An Air Canada Express jet collided with a fire truck late Sunday evening, killing the two pilots.
An American Airlines plane takes off from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) in Arlington, Virginia, on Tuesday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 14, 2025
U.S. airlines knocked sideways by shutdown are getting back on track
Cancelations have subsided from the shutdown peaks over the past few days and since President Donald Trump signed legislation to reopen the government late Wednesday.
A U.S. Capitol Police officer in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Wednesday
WORLD / Politics
Nov 13, 2025
U.S. government readies for massive reboot after ending record shutdown
Officials warn some operations may take a week or more to fully resume after the longest shutdown in U.S. history.
The crash site of Air India flight AI171 in Ahmedabad, India, on June 12
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Jul 17, 2025
Air India junior pilot asked why captain turned off fuel switches, sources say
While fuel supply to the engines was restored about 10 seconds later, it was too late to avert the June 12 crash that killed 260 people.
Members of the Indian Army's engineering arm prepare to remove the wreckage of an Air India aircraft in Ahmedabad on June 14.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 11, 2025
Air India crash report to offer peek into last seconds
Investigators have revealed very few details since the Air India accident, which killed all but one of the 242 individuals on board and more than 30 people on the ground.
The Transportation Security Administration¡¯s reversal on removing shoes ends a policy that has been for nearly two decades one of the most visible ¡ª and criticized ¡ª features of the post-9/11 heightened U.S. airport security system.
WORLD
Jul 9, 2025
U.S. travelers can keep shoes on at airport security, TSA says
The reversal ends a policy that has been for nearly two decades one of the most visible features of the post-9/11 heightened U.S. airport security system.
The crash site of Air India Flight 171 in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, on Thursday. More than 240 were killed when the London-bound plane crashed moments moments after taking off from the city of Ahmedabad on Thursday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 13, 2025
Aviation experts draw attention to flaps and landing gear in Air India crash
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner appeared to not achieve sufficient thrust as it lumbered down nearly the full length of the runway.
The air traffic control tower at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, on Jan. 30, 2025. The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration¡¯s top air traffic control official plans to leave the agency ahead of a major overhaul of the unit¡¯s antiquated technology systems.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 9, 2025
U.S. FAA¡¯s top air traffic control official to step down from agency
Tim Arel, chief operating officer of the FAA¡¯s Air Traffic Organization, plans to leave the agency ahead of a major overhaul of the unit¡¯s antiquated technology systems.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the White House in Washington on Thursday about the midair crash between an American Airlines plane and a military helicopter.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 31, 2025
Trump blames diversity programs over midair collision
The crash was nation¡¯s most deadly commercial airline accident in over a decade.
The flight data recorder retrieved from Jeju Air flight 2216, which crashed killing 179 people in December. Black boxes holding the flight data and cockpit voice recorders for the flight stopped recording four minutes before the disaster, South Korea's transport ministry said Saturday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 15, 2025
Crashed Jeju jet¡¯s black box failure shows decadeslong gap in power rules
The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board first recommended that cockpit voice recorders be fitted with an independent power source in the late 1990s.
A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft in Houston in 2019
WORLD
Jun 15, 2024
Southwest Airlines plane plunged within 120 meters of ocean near Hawaii
The Boeing 737 Max 8 jet briefly dropped at an abnormally high rate of more than 4,000 feet per minute before the flight crew pulled up to avoid disaster.
A passenger who was on board Singapore Airlines flight SQ321 arrives at Changi Airport in Singapore on Wednesday. The flight had experienced severe turbulence, resulting in the death of a British man and multiple injuries.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 24, 2024
Fliers concerned about safety after airline mishaps
But despite this year¡¯s spate of high-profile airline accidents, statistics show that flying is still safer than the drive to the airport.
Gut bacteria may be behind many of Â鶹´«Ã½ colorectal cancer cases
A Japanese research team found that a toxin produced by certain E. coli strains, colibactin, caused genetic mutations in nearly half of colorectal cancer cases studied
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
She is Russia¡¯s richest woman. Her business empire is going up in flames.
Tatyana Kim, the head and co-founder of Wildberries, speaks about Ukrainian drone attacks on the company's warehouses in the course of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, at an unidentified location, in this still image from a handout video released on July 31.
Severe tropical storm Chan-hom makes landfall near Tokyo
Severe Tropical Storm Chan-hom made landfall around Ibaraki Prefecture, near Tokyo, on Tuesday night.
What Â鶹´«Ã½ language rules for permanent residency should look like
Potential health care workers hoping to find work in Japan take Japanese language instruction in Jakarta. Not all applicants for permanent residency should be expected to reach this level of proficiency.
Where do foreign residents in Japan want to die?
The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery is one of the few cemeteries in Japan that allows burials, albeit with conditions for the deceased, including foreign nationality and permanent residency in Kanagawa Prefecture.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
As Â鶹´«Ã½ concrete jungles sizzle, urban forestry offers an all-natural fix
People and birds find relief from the sun in Tokyo's Nakano Ward earlier this month. While experts agree that urban greening is crucial to mitigating the impact of climate change, trees are becoming even more scarce in Japanese cities.
Â鶹´«Ã½ brewers experiment with a secret ingredient: music
At Smoke Craft, a craft beer brewery in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture, music isn't just a background to the brewing process ¡ª it's an ingredient.
As countries ban social media for children, Japan mulls a different approach
Data from NTT Docomo¡¯s Mobile Society Research Institute released in June found that 55% of respondents across all age groups said they fiddled with their phones when they had nothing to do, even when another person was in front of them.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo¡¯s ¡®stadium of desire¡¯

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Disaster relief workers Taichi Kato (left) and Seiji Yoshimura enter the collapsed living quarters at Kyuganji temple in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture.
What Kumamoto revealed about Â鶹´«Ã½ earthquake readiness
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