Stolen plane closes Seattle-Tacoma airport before crashing
An airline employee who stole an empty passenger plane from Seattle airport has crashed on a nearby island.
Authorities said the man had made "an unauthorised take-off" late on Friday local time, forcing Seattle-Tacoma International Airport to close.
Two F15 fighter jets pursued the plane. It is unclear if the man survived the crash in Puget Sound.
The Pierce County Sheriff's Office said it was "not a terrorist incident", adding the man was local and aged 29.
Pierce County Sheriff Paul Pastor later told reporters it appeared to be "a joyride gone terribly wrong", according to ABC7 News, adding "most terrorists don't do loops over the water".
Air traffic controllers tried to encourage the man to land before the plane crashed, a recording being shared online reveals.
Twitter suspends Proud Boys on eve of deadly Unite the Right rally anniversary
Platform bars rightwing ‘western chauvinist’ group for violating its policy against violent extremists
Twitter suspended numerous accounts associated with the rightwing “western chauvinist” group the Proud Boys on Friday, the eve of the anniversary of the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville.
Verified accounts belonging to the group and its founder, Gavin McInnes, were suspended for violating the platform’s policy against “violent extremist groups”, a company spokeswoman confirmed. A number of non-verified accounts for various Proud Boys chapters were also suspended.
The action by Twitter is notable for its timing, coming at the end of a week in which the company bucked a trend set by Apple, Facebook and YouTube to ban the accounts of the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. Jones built a wide audience on social media while disseminating a toxic mix of conspiracy theories, misinformation and hyper-partisanship, but he was ultimately banned over his hateful speech toward minority groups.
Erdogan warns of 'economic war' as Turkish lira carnage spooks global markets
The Turkish lira crash is threatening to turn into a debt and liquidity crisis with no end in sight. Instead of acting, the Turkish leadership has warned of an "economic war."
Turkey is in the throes of a full-blown currency crisis, with little sign that the government has a plan to deal with one of the worst emerging market currency meltdowns in recent history.
The crisis threatens to throw the world's 18th-largest economy into a downward spiral of bankruptcy and trigger contagion in emerging markets and Europe.
The Turkish lira fell as much as 22 percent Friday, before paring losses back to 17 percent, extending a rout in the currency from earlier this week. It stood at 6.47 to the US dollar at 1900 UTC. The lira has lost nearly 40 percent of its value since the start of the year and nearly 30 percent since President Recep Tayyip Erdogan took over the office with new sweeping powers in June.
NASA postpones launch of probe to study sun at close range
US space agency NASA postponed the launch of the Parker Solar Probe on Saturday - the start of a years-long mission to study the sun up close for the first time ever.
Technical issues caused the launch to be interrupted twice, which eventually led to the launch window being missed.
NASA will attempt a new launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida using a Delta IV Heavy, the world's second-most powerful rocket currently in use, on Sunday, NASA said.
Aubtin Heydari was nearly killed at the Charlottesville rally last year. This is his story.
“The TV’s on to CNN, and it’s just replaying video of us being hit.”
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A ubtin Heydari, a counterprotester at last year’s white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, doesn’t remember when the car hit him. He doesn’t remember the blow to his legs that would keep him in a wheelchair for months. He doesn’t remember sitting on the street bleeding while a paramedic worked to save his life, just feet away from Heather Heyer — the woman who was killed in the same car attack, carried out by neo-Nazi James Alex Fields Jr.
What he does remember is waking up in a hospital bed, disoriented and concussed — and seeing footage of himself being hit by Fields’s car on a television.
“The TV’s on to CNN, and it’s just replaying video of us being hit,” Heydari tells me. “And I’m like yes, wait, that’s what happened.”
A CONFIDENTIAL REPORT by Israeli military police investigators seen by The Intercept explains how a tragic series of mistakes by air force, naval, and intelligence officers led to an airstrike in which four Palestinian boys playing on a beach in Gaza in 2014 were killed by missiles launched from an armed drone.
Testimony from the officers involved in the attack, which has been concealed from the public until now, confirms for the first time that the children — four cousins ages 10 and 11 — were pursued and killed by drone operators who somehow mistook them, in broad daylight, for Hamas militants.
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