We break down the betting market for the first defensive player selected in the 2024 NFL Draft.

Gorgeous fields of wildflowers are taking over California with bright yellow daisies even popping up in Death Valley, the driest and hottest place in America.

Attorneys for a Warren Buffett-owned railway are expected to argue before a jury on Friday that the railroad should not be held liable for hauling asbestos into a Montana town that allegedly sickened — and even killed — hundreds. BNSF Railway has argued that the nation’s largest freight railroad’s predecessors — before Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway...

President Biden warned about risking a wider war in the Middle East, and while the White House is monitoring the situation, there has been no official response. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan met virtually Thursday with Israeli leaders, but it is unclear if Israel told U.S. leaders about the planned strike on Iran.

A JetBlue flight from Washington to Boston began to take off at the same time a Southwest jet was crossing the same runway. Both planes stopped moments before a potential collision.

Jury selection is scheduled to continue Friday in Donald Trump’s hush money trial in New York. Twelve jurors have been seated and six alternates need to be chosen.

Tesla is recalling more than 3,000 of its 2024 Cybertrucks because of the possibility that a pedal can get stuck and cause the vehicle to accelerate unintentionally, increasing the risk of a crash

Oil prices fluctuated on Friday, briefly spiking as much as 3% after Israel hit back at Iran in a retaliatory strike, further heightening tensions in the Middle East. Brent crude prices briefly reached above $90 per barrel after a US official told ABC News that Israel launched missile strikes against Iran late Thursday. The attack...

The International Olympic Committee on Friday announced plans to use AI in various Olympic aspects, including athlete identification, training and judging.

Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the American envoy to the United Nations, visited the atomic bomb museum in Nagasaki, Japan, becoming the first U.S. cabinet member to do so.

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The California Department of Transportation announced Thursday that a massive landslide covering a large section of Topanga Canyon Boulevard still poses a safety risk and may not be cleared until fall.

Plastic covers the exterior of the fuselage plug area of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 Boeing 737-9 MAX on January 7, 2024, in Portland, Oregon.  | Getty Images Noticing more problems with Boeing planes doesn’t mean there are actually more problems with aviation safety. Is it just me, or does it seem like a lot of bad things keep happening to Boeing airplanes lately? Ever since the shocking January 5 incident in which a door plug fell out of a Boeing 737 Max 9 in midair, leaving a gaping hole in the side of the plane, many fliers have been jumpy. Their fears have been fueled by news sites that have been serving up incident after incident: a Boeing 737 Max 8 sliding off the runway in Houston, another 737 in Houston making an emergency return after flames were spotted spewing out of an engine, yet another in Newark reporting stuck rudder pedals, a Boeing 777 losing a tire shortly after takeoff from San Francisco, a 777 making an emergency landing in Los Angeles with a suspected mechanical issue. And so on and so on. So what’s actually happening? Are more planes having incidents than ever before? Or are we just hearing about more incidents? It’s mostly the latter. Minor aviation incidents with few or no injuries — like those listed above — happen constantly. They just don’t make the news. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), which investigates aviation incidents and accidents, lists 12 incidents on commercial aircraft in the United States so far this year. Last year, during the same time period, there were 13 such incidents. From 2010 to 2023, there were on average 36 incidents a year. We’re about a third of the way through the year, so we’re having a more or less totally mundane year, as far as the rate of incidents serious enough to warrant an NTSB investigation goes. For journalists, is the customer always right? So things aren’t going wrong on planes at an unusual rate — you’re hearing about it at an unusual rate because, ever since the January incident, journalists are paying much more attention and writing stories about relatively minor plane incidents, and people are nervous about planes and are eager to read stories about such incidents. Various minor issues, from engine trouble to maintenance issues, were always happening under the radar but weren’t newsworthy; now, the same incidents are news, especially if they happen on a Boeing (and given that almost half of the US commercial fleet is made by Boeing, they often do). Here’s the question I struggle with as a journalist: Do we have some responsibility not to write such stories? Journalists take accuracy very seriously. Every journalist I know works very hard not to publish a story that’s wrong — and if they did, they’d feel obliged to issue a correction. But it’s much less clear what our obligations are with stories that are completely true, and about a subject readers want to read about, but that paint for those readers a misleading picture of the world. I think most people would agree it would be unethical to systematically report only on lurid crimes committed by one racial group and ignore those same crimes when the perpetrator is of a different background, or to report the evidence for a claim and not bother reporting the similarly credible evidence that it’s false. But journalism intrinsically involves judgments about what is newsworthy. Do minor incidents become newsworthy simply because we’re all on the lookout for major ones? Is it reasonable to expect everyone to wait months until the data is in on whether there’s a trend, when readers want information sooner than that — and will reward media sites that provide it? I tend to think that journalists (and, for that matter, all people) have a duty not just to tell the truth but to provide enough context with the truth that readers overall come away more informed, not less informed. And I think that a sudden surge in reporting on minor airplane incidents can paradoxically end up leaving readers less informed. Their misconceptions aren’t free of consequences, either — when people choose to drive instead of fly because they fear flying, they are probably more likely to die. So I think that, ideally, coverage would steer away from writing about routine, boring aviation events — or would at least give readers context on how routine and boring these events are. An accurate aviation story “Three million people flew in and out of US airports today, and none of them died except of natural causes” isn’t a conventional news story, but it’s factual — and worth keeping in mind. Planes sometimes lose a tire and still land safely with no injuries. They sometimes get a puzzling computer warning and have to land at the nearest airport — safely. An engine goes out sometimes, and the plane still lands — safely. Every once in a while, you have an incident like the one last December in which two American Airlines airplanes had emergencies over Phoenix at the exact same time, one suffering a failure of its flaps system and one a problem with its engine — and everyone involved arrives safely, with no injuries. And while the January door plug incident revealed some genuine and glaring failures in processes at Boeing, it’s really hard to overstate how safe aviation is. In all of the incidents involving regularly scheduled US commercial aircraft over the 15 years from 2010 to 2024, there have been two passenger fatalities — in about 8.75 trillion revenue passenger miles. That’s a safety record of about one or two passenger fatalities per light-year traveled. There are plenty of stories to be reported about the state of the US aviation industry: how it got that breathtaking safety record, whether Boeing is now endangering it (as my colleague Whizy Kim wrote this week), and whether we’ve learned the lessons of previous eras when shoddy maintenance practices and cost-cutting really did bring down planes regularly in the US. But writers should stop writing — and you should stop clicking — stories about minor things going wrong on individual 737s. A version of this story originally appeared in the Future Perfect newsletter. Sign up here!

We make a prediction for the first cornerback off the board in the NFL draft and the position the Eagles will take first.

One of our most celebrated living artists, Nicole Eisenman is the subject of a superb retrospective at the MCA Chicago.

Caitlin Clark blocked Antonio Brown on X after the former NFL wide receiver posted several items on X directed at the newest Indiana Fever member.

More Walmart stores are getting rid of their self-checkout machines. Here's what you need to know.

Congressman Jamaal Bowman claims that the Thursday arrest of fellow “Squad" member Rep. Ilhan Omar’s daughter at anti-Israel protests at Columbia University was political payback.

Paris police cordoned off an area around an Iranian consulate amid reports of a man threatening to detonate a bomb, but a suspect was quickly detained.

Ever wondered where popular phrases come from? Here are three favorite sayings with interesting origin stories and possible theories about their beginnings and meanings.

Legendary guitarist Dickey Betts died Thursday at his home in Florida after battling cancer. The Rock ‘N Roll Hall of Famer was 80 years old.

The Israeli Defense Force launched strikes into the the Iranian region of Isfahan, home to multiple nuclear reactors and enrichment centers, but did not damage the facilities.

All 12 jurors have been selected in former President Donald Trump’s “hush money” trial. Trump, who has pleaded not guilty to all charges, is accused of falsifying business records to hide an alleged affair with an adult film actor ahead of the 2016 election. The trial could begin as soon as Monday.

Zay Flowers will not face disciplinary action after the NFL said Thursday that it found "insufficient evidence" that the Ravens wideout violated league policy over an alleged assault.

Liu Ranyang/China News Service via GettyTesla is recalling thousands of its Cybertrucks over a problem with the accelerator pedal, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced Friday.The auto safety regulator said the pedals in certain Cybertruck vehicles have a pad that “may dislodge and become trapped by the interior trim,” in turn causing the truck to “accelerate unintentionally, increasing the risk of a crash.” A total of 3,878 Cybertrucks are being recalled to fix the issue.Part of a safety recall report said the fault on Cybertrucks manufactured between November 2023 and April 2024 said the accelerator pad can become dislodged when “high force” is applied to the pedal. If the pad then becomes trapped in the interior trim, “the performance and operation of the pedal will be affected, which may increase the risk of a collision.”Read more at The Daily Beast.

Edwin Diaz’s four-seam fastball this season is averaging 96.6 mph, a number that most pitchers would celebrate.

Rishi Sunak announced welfare reform plans to reduce the number of people being signed off on longterm sick leave by doctors.

Jim Breheny has been at the Bronx Zoo for 51 years, starting with a role at the children's zoo when he was 14 in the early 1970s. "No, I never thought I would be in this position," he joked of his current job title: director of the Bronx Zoo.

Former first lady Melania Trump stressed the importance of unifying the nation, telling Fox News Digital that "equality" needs to be the "everyday experience of every American."

Houston district Judge Ursula Hall shot down Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s attempt to block a guaranteed income program based on grounds that its unconstitutional.

The chief executive’s 2023 pay package rose 26 percent from the year before, while the company’s losses totaled $3 billion.

Direct conflict between Israel and Iran, which threaten global oil supplies and could drive up energy costs, has investors on edge.

Democrats are almost certainly expected to be needed for Speaker Johnson's foreign aid proposal to clear a House-wide test vote on Friday.

Trump lawyer John Eastman claims he was "de-banked" for helping the former president try to overturn the 2020 election results.

As Bob Baffert is suspended from Churchill Downs through 2024, a judge ordered that one of his horses is unable to run in next month's Kentucky Derby.

Tubi is hoping that Big Mood can be a breakout hit for the streamer, much like Jury Duty was for Amazon Freevee in 2023.

While she's previously drawn fashion inspiration from fairytales and '50 housewives, to name a few, Swift's looking somewhere more literary for style inspo these days.

Existing-home sales are bound to remain low in the coming months, Moody's expert tells Newsweek.

Roughly 80 percent of women could be impacting their performance by wearing a too-tight sports bra, scientists say.

Three House Democrats, all of whom dismissed concern about the southern border crisis and voted against measures to enhance border security in the past, are now giving attention to the issue.

Brittany Mahomes supported her close friend, Taylor Swift, after the release of the singer's new album, “The Tortured Poets Department," Friday.

"To think that 80 years later he's going to come home and he's going to get the honor he deserves it brings tears to my eyes,” LaPorta said.

There is plenty of time for Gleyber Torres to turn things around and become the impact bat the Yankees expect him to be.

The MyPillow CEO is facing a backlash from voting machine manufacturer Smartmatic.

"It's worth waiting for this kind of love," one viewer wrote, amid comments gushing over the "Barbie"-themed gesture.

The United States of America is an empire of might and of influence. There has never been anything like it for scale and global impact, even if history has yet to render its verdict on America's endurance.

South Korea's government is adjusting its plan to increase admissions to medical schools amid a weeks-long strike by thousands of doctors, officials said.