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A passenger jet crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, with many feared dead. The Azerbaijan Airlines flight went off course and officials did not immediately explain why, but the crash came shortly after drone strikes hit southern Russia. Top world leaders, including President Joe Biden, Pope Francis, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Ze...

For the second time since his first term, President-elect Donald Trump suggests that the United States should own Greenland. He says it's for national security. This comes as Trump named PayPal co-founder Ken Howery as the United States ambassador to Denmark. However, the island's prime minister says it's not for sale. Despite noting some reservations, President Joe Biden signed the National Defen...

American Airlines on Tuesday lifted an hour-long ground stop of all its flights in the United States due to an unspecified technical issue, a notice on the U.S. aviation regulator's website showed. A U.S. NGO said that they believe the American journalist missing in Syria, Austin Tice, "is alive and we know that as a fact." Meanwhile, protests broke out in the Christian community of the Syrian cap...

The United States arrested seven Chinese nationals. Authorities say they illegally entered Guam while the island was conducting a missile test. We have more on the $10 billion plan to bolster Guam's missile defense against threats from China. President-elect Donald Trump is threatening to take back the Panama Canal—a passageway critical to U.S. commerce. We look at the details of China's growing i...

The House Ethics Committee released a report on its investigation into former Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz . It concluded that Gaetz paid for sex and illicit drugs during his time in office, and violated state and federal laws on prostitution and statutory rape. Gaetz refuted the findings and denied any criminal wrongdoing. President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 federal prisoners on death...

What President-elect Donald Trump's cabinet picks—an unconventional coalition with diverse ideologies—are vowing to do, and what they're showing us about Trump's incoming agenda. We bring you a deep dive. States are taking action to counter the Chinese Communist Party's harassment of dissidents in the United States. What are local players doing to take on a huge foreign adversary and its tendrils...

Luigi Mangione, the man accused of fatally gunning down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a Manhattan street, pleaded not guilty on Monday to state murder charges that describe him as a terrorist. Former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) filed a lawsuit against the House Ethics Committee on Monday. The Committee subsequently released a report on its investigation into his alleged sexual misconduct and...

President Joe Biden has commuted the sentences of 37 of the 40 inmates currently on federal death row, converting their punishments to life imprisonment. The move spares the lives of inmates convicted of killing police and military officers, as well as several involved in deadly bank robberies or drug deals. The three people who were not on Biden's commutation list are the surviving Boston Maratho...

At least two people were killed and more than 60 others injured when a car plowed into a busy Christmas market in Magdeburg, eastern Germany, in what appears to have been a deliberate attack. Authorities arrested the suspected driver, who they say is a 50-year-old Saudi Arabian man who first arrived in Germany in 2006. With just hours left before a potential midnight government shutdown, the House...

Congress was scrambling to avert a partial government shutdown on Friday, hours after more than three dozen Republicans rejected a demand by President-elect Donald Trump to use the measure to lift the nation's debt ceiling. The White House is abandoning its plan to cancel student loans for more than 38 million Americans. This is the Biden administration's first step in scrapping pending regulation...

A government shutdown is looming after President-elect Donald Trump's opposition quashed a funding deal that included a debt limit increase. Republicans and Democrats are now trading blame for the last-minute fiasco of a possible government shutdown while scrambling to secure a new deal before the deadline at midnight on Friday. A state appeals court has disqualified Fulton County District Attorne...

DJI, a Chinese military company, now dominates the U.S. drone market. Some lawmakers have called it TikTok with wings, fearing the devices DJI makes could act as eyes in the sky for Beijing. A defense bill could change its massive market share. Mysterious drone sightings have left the U.S. public wanting answers. If the aircraft are operated by adversaries, why are they outfitted with lights? And...

President-elect Trump has sued The Des Moines Register newspaper and renowned pollster J. Ann Selzer, accusing them of election interference over a poll that showed ahead of the November election Vice President Kamala Harris leading in Iowa, which Trump eventually won. Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the killing of the UnitedHealthcare CEO, has been charged in New York with first-degree murder and...

Congress has less than four days to avoid a government shutdown. What's the hang-up as frustrations build? A key Russian general is dead after a bomb explodes outside his apartment. He was in charge of the military's nuclear, biological, and chemical defense forces. President-elect Donald Trump is suing a newspaper in Iowa for election interference. He argues the newspaper released an inaccurate p...

President-elect Donald Trump is suing The Des Moines Register for alleged election interference, according to a court filing. The lawsuit names the Register and top pollster J. Ann Selzer in a case over the newspaper's final presidential election poll. Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes told CNN that investigators are looking into online posts and a possible manifesto that the shooter may have left...

Police say a 15-year-old student opened fire at a Christian school in Wisconsin on Monday. A teacher and a teenage student were killed in the incident, along with the alleged shooter, who suffered a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Six others were injured, with two in critical condition. Police say a second-grader called 911 to report the shooting. NTD sat down with retired ATF Deputy Assistant Direc...

The FBI is investigating a mass-shooting threat in Atlanta. The sender threatened to attack theatergoers if the venue hosts a performing arts group that exposes communism. The Justice Department says that North Koreans are sneaking into U.S. tech companies and stealing technology—all while on the payroll. A $5 million reward has now been posted for anyone with information. A comment from President...

In a shooting at a Christian private school in Madison, Wisconsin, a student and a teacher were killed, and six others were injured. Police said the teenage shooter was also found dead at the scene. President-elect Trump answered reporters' questions about the mysterious drones sighted in the northeast. He stated that the government knows where the drones originated but wants to keep people in sus...

Mystery drones on the East Coast—what could be their purpose? And how many of these drone sightings could be misidentified? We speak with the director of public safety for DroneShield to find out more. The mysterious sightings are prompting speculation across the nation. We hear from the folks in Washington on the unidentified aircraft. What does President-elect Donald Trump think about vaccine ma...

Together with President-elect Donald Trump, SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son announced a $100 billion investment in the United States over the next four years during a visit to Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in Florida on Monday. Former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has issued his first statement since being toppled from power, saying he was evacuated to Russia from the Hmeimim air base on Dec. 8 as i...

President Joe Biden spoke alongside Vice President Kamala Harris at a DNC holiday party in Washington on Sunday. Biden said he will leave office with the United States in better shape than it was four years ago, highlighting his administration's achievements. Harris emphasized that her presidential campaign showed how united Democratic supporters are. NTD spoke with contributor Mike Leon to discus...

The drone sighting mysteries continue. Two men were arrested after a drone was detected flying close to Logan Airport in Boston. Officials say they will deploy a high-tech system in New York after drones shut down a local airport. Another advisor to New York City Mayor Eric Adams has resigned. Her departure comes after her home was searched and devices seized as part of a federal investigation. A...

ABC News will pay President-elect Donald Trump $15 million to settle a defamation lawsuit. Meanwhile, Trump attended Saturday's Army-Navy football game. He was joined by Vice President-elect JD Vance, Pentagon pick Pete Hegseth, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Trump also named Truth Social CEO Devin Nunes to serve as chairman of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board. New York Gov. Kathy Hochu...

The United States is sending over 100 Chinese illegal immigrants back to China on a charter flight. Beijing said it's willing to work with President-elect Donald Trump on mass deportations, as record numbers of illegal immigrants from China have crossed into the United States. A slew of reactions have come in regarding Trump's decision to invite Chinese leader Xi Jinping to his inauguration—from C...

Lawmakers have grown increasingly concerned about nightly sightings of mysterious drones in New Jersey. Some pressed for more information and resources to investigate, while the Pentagon denied claims that the drones were connected to Iran. UnitedHealthcare's parent company, UnitedHealth Group, published an op-ed in response to the murder of CEO Brian Thompson. The group acknowledged problems with...