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With the Los Angeles Unified School District Board ready to fire Superintendent John Deasy, he resigned as head of the nation’s second-largest public school system just six months after he spiked his annual salary to $384,184 with $54,184 in buy-outs. After

A woman on a Pentagon tour bus who began vomiting later informed officials she had recently been in Africa, prompting a hazmat team to be dispatched and a portion of the Pentagon parking lot to be sealed off.  According to

A White House petition to halt travel from Ebola-stricken countries into the U.S. has jumped by over 15,000 signatures in just three days, bringing its total number of signatures to 37,062.  The explosion in signatures comes as a second American,

University of Wisconsin-Madison police have joined federal aviation officials to find the pilot of a drone that flew over jumping college students at Camp Randall Stadium on Saturday afternoon as UW-Madison played Illinois.  The drone, photographed by Wisconsin State Journal

Friday on NewsMax TV’s “American Forum”  Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX) called on President Barack Obama to ban non-essential travel to and from West African nations effected by the Ebola epidemic.  Poe said, “It’s current law,” explaining the president could require

The Ohio penal system is to be the first in the country to use drones to monitor its facilities. On October 2, the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections began a pilot program to test the capabilities of two $170,000

On Thursday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said it is imperative that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) take every precaution to prevent the spread of Ebola before the holiday season. In a letter to FAA Administrator Michael Huerta, Cruz noted that

SpaceX suffered its first missile failure when one of their F9R rockets aborted its mission and auto-destructed over Texas shortly after takeoff on August 22. One observer video shows debris falling from the sky just after the explosion. No one was hurt

HOUSTON, Texas — A SpaceX rocket exploded over Texas on Friday when its self-destruct system was triggered for unknown reasons. The incident occurred just after takeoff at the company’s development facility located in McGregor. SpaceX’s reusable Falcon 9 rocket was

Amid the news that two patients– one in New Mexico and one in California– are currently being tested for Ebola in hospitals due to matching symptoms, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has revealed that there have been

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has “barred” all U.S. airlines from flying over Syria due to a “serious potential threat.”  The FAA said Syrian airspace is be avoided and carriers should contact the FAA in the event that the airspace

Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) said that the federal government still has not made important changes that he suggested over a month ago on Wednesday’s “Your World with Neil Cavuto” on the Fox News Channel.   He charged that the leadership of

Concerns over Ebola in the United States have escalated due to the prolonged nature of the disease; symptoms can take two weeks to appear. Given the ease with which the virus can travel via plane through a carrier who does

A single-engine, four-seat passenger airplane crashed into a San Diego Costco parking lot on Wednesday evening, resulting in the death of one of the two women on board the aircraft.  The pilot, 52, was reportedly attempting to land the the

AUSTIN, Texas–The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reversed its ban on American flights to Israel shortly before midnight Eastern time, almost as suddenly as the ban had been put into place. The reason given by the FAA was a rocket launched

Amidst the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict, newly elected Israeli President Reuven Rivlin was officially sworn in Thursday. President Shimon Peres gave his final speech as President, officially handing the mantle over to Rivlin, who then took the oath of office. Rivlin

On Tuesday, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg defied FAA regulations and flew to Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel. In the column below, first published at Bloomberg View, he explains his reasons why: Just hours after the

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sen. Ted Cruz on Wednesday questioned whether President Barack Obama used a federal agency to impose an economic boycott on Israel after the Federal Aviation Administration banned U.S. airline flights to Tel Aviv because of safety

When President Obama announced on Monday that he had dispatched Secretary of State John Kerry to the Middle East in order that he “do everything he can to help facilitate a cessation to hostilities” between the terror group Hamas and

The US Federal Aviation Agency’s 24-hour ban on travel into Israel’s Ben Gurion International Airport is set to expire. It remains unclear why the Obama Administration decided to suddenly pull the plug on travel into Ben Gurion, as it is

Speaking to reporters as he welcomed former NY Mayor Michael Bloomberg at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion International Airport, where he arrived aboard an El Al flight, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the Federal Aviation Administration’s decision to ban all

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced via his website on Tuesday that he is en route to Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel, in defiance of an FAA decree handed down earlier preventing American commercial flights from

Anticipating an imminent ban by the FAA of all U.S. flights to Israel, Delta, United, and US Airways each canceled all outbound flights to Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion International Airport until further notice. Delta Flight 468, one of its two

In the aftermath of the horrific fall of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine Thursday, the United States Federal Aviation Administration warned airlines not to fly over that airspace, and it received voluntary agreements from airlines that they would not. But

(Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc is seeking permission from U.S. regulators to test its delivery drones near Seattle, as part of a rapid expansion of a program that has sparked widespread debate over the safety and privacy implications of drone technology.

CNN said Monday it was launching a research project with the Georgia Institute of Technology on how drones could be used for newsgathering by media organizations. The research will evaluate the technology, personnel and safety needs to operate effectively and

Now that private and commercial drone use is becoming more popular, it seems as good as time as any to integrate the devices into the use of social media.  Enter “the dronie.” A play on the ubiquitous “selfie” phenomenon, a

In March, an American Airlines flight crew reported a near collision over Florida with an unmanned aircraft, raising new fears of the dangers of drones. The pilots reported that the unmanned vehicle looked like a miniature military jet airplane like

A U-2 spy plane, one of the key weapons of the Cold War, is apparently responsible for a computer failure in Los Angeles that disrupted air traffic control operations in California and across the nation, NBC news reports. Sources quoted by

Given comments made on April 25 by SpaceX founder Elon Musk, it seems very likely that the space-tech company will build their new launch site in Texas.  “We’re developing a launch pad on the south coast of Texas,” Musk reportedly said at a

HOUSTON, TEXAS (AP)–A Texas-based group involved in searches for missing persons around the nation filed a lawsuit on Monday asking a federal court to set aside an order that prohibits the nonprofit from employing drones in its work. Texas EquuSearch

(UPI) — The Dye family of New Jersey had their Easter egg hunt interrupted Sunday when a skydiver fell out of the sky in a fatal accident in Washington Township. The diver, 49-year-old Arkady Shenker, jumped out of a plane operated

The story of a California teen who stowed away in the wheel well of of a 767 jet liner and flew all the way to Hawaii has raised the eyebrows of experts who think the whole story is unlikely to