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Before Mass Shooting, Army Supervisors Ignored Advice
A commission that investigated the deadliest mass shooting in Maine’s history released its final findings Tuesday, saying police and the Army missed opportunities “that, if taken, might have changed the course of these tragic events.” Army reservist Robert Card killed 18 people at a bar and a bowling alley in Lewiston before taking his own life on Oct. 25 last year. In the months before the shooting, friends and other reservists had warned that he was showing paranoid and delusional behavior, the AP reports. Less than six weeks before the shooting, a longtime friend warned their Army supervisor: “I believe he’s going to snap and do a mass shooting.”
- Commission chair Daniel Wathen, former chief justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, said Tuesday that “Robert Card is totally responsible for his own conduct, solely responsible,” the Boston Herald reports. “We will never know if he might still have committed a mass shooting even if someone had managed to remove his firearms before Oct. 25,” Wathen said. “But the Commission unanimously found that there were several opportunities that, if taken, might have changed the course of these tragic events.
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“Under Biden and his corrupt partners in Congress and beyond, it reached a breaking point with the green new scam, open borders for everyone. They poured in by the millions and millions from prisons, from mental institutions. There were murderers, 11,088 murderers.”
“Under Biden and his corrupt partners in Congress and beyond, it reached a breaking point with the green new scam, open borders for everyone. They poured in by the millions and millions from prisons, from mental institutions. There were murderers, 11,088 murderers.”
Family members of the people who were killed in the midair collision near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport listen during a news conference ahead of a vote on an aviation safety bill on Capitol Hill on Tuesday in Washington.
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WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives narrowly rejected an aviation safety bill that was spurred by the deadly midair collision near Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, one day after the Pentagon abruptly withdrew its support for the bipartisan bill.
The ROTOR Act, as the bill is known, would require wider use of a safety system known as ADS-B in and ADS-B out which can transmit an aircraft’s location to other aircraft. It would also limit exemptions for military helicopters.
The Senate approved the bill unanimously in December. It also had wide support from families of the crash victims, many of whom had traveled to Capitol Hill for the vote.
But the Pentagon has reservations.
After supporting the ROTOR Act last year, Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in a statement on Monday that the bill could create “unresolved budgetary burdens and operational security risks,” though he did not specify what they are.
Under House rules, a two-thirds majority was required for passage. The final tally was 264 in favor and 133 opposed, with more than 130 Republicans voting against it.
The National Transportation Safety Board said ADS-B technology could have prevented the midair collision of a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines passenger jet that killed 67 people last year by giving pilots more time to react and avoid the crash.
“The ROTOR Act would’ve saved lives,” NTSB chair Jennifer Homendy said on social media before the vote. “How many more people need to die before we act?”
But the bill ran into headwinds in the House from several powerful Republican committee leaders.
An American Airlines jet takes off from the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on January 29, 2026, on the first anniversary of the day 67 people died after a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter collided with a commuter jet over the Potomac River.
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“This bill will undermine our national security,” said Mike Rogers, R-Ala., the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee in remarks Monday evening. “Requiring our fighters and bombers and highly classified assets to regularly broadcast their location puts our men and women in uniform at risk.”
Sam Graves, R-Mo., the chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, described the ROTOR Act as an “unworkable government mandate,” and raised concerns that it would be “burdensome” to some pilots.
Graves and Rogers put their support behind their own bipartisan bill, known as the ALERT Act, setting up a possible clash between powerful GOP lawmakers in the House and Senate.
But the House bill does not have the endorsement of the NTSB, aviation industry trade unions, or the families of the crash victims. After the vote, many of those victims’ families said they would continue to push for the ROTOR Act’s passage.
“We are devastated. Today, a majority of the House voted to pass the ROTOR Act. It was not enough,” a statement from the Families of Flight 5342 read. “We call on House leadership to bring the ROTOR Act back for a vote that lets the majority pass it.”
The bill’s co-author, Ted Cruz, R-Texas, the chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, also vowed to keep up the pressure.
“Only the ROTOR Act ensures that all airplanes and helicopters flying in U.S. airspace play by the same set of rules,” Cruz said in a statement after the vote. “Today’s result was just a temporary delay. We will succeed, and [the] ROTOR Act will become the law of the land. The families and the flying public deserve nothing less.”
A collection of snow sport enthusiasts brave blowing snow and 20-degree temperatures to ski Horsebarn Hill in Mansfield, Ct. on Monday afternoon as the snow squalls pass from a storm that dropped more than a foot of snow across the state on Feb. 23.
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A powerful winter storm hit the northeast U.S. on Monday, leaving millions stranded at home, prompting travel bans — which were lifted by midday— and flight cancellations throughout New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Connecticut.
According to Connecticut Public, some parts of the state got as much as two feet of snow, while some neighborhoods throughout New York recorded as much as 24 inches of snow. Thousands of residents in New York and New Jersey also reported power outages, with nearly 40,000 customers in New Jersey still without power as of early this evening.
Here are images of the areas affected by the winter storm:
A plow clears Silver Lane between East Hartford and Manchester, Ct. on Feb. 23.
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A person makes a recording while laying in the snow in lower Manhattan during a snow storm on Feb. 23 in New York.
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A trio of yard decorations in Willington, Conn. are coated with snow on Feb. 23, during a nor’easter that pounded the state with up to two feet of snow in some areas.
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Residents shovel snow in East Boston, Mass., on Feb. 23.
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A person skis through the streets of Brooklyn as blizzard conditions continue on Feb. 23 in New York City.
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Ducks swim in The Pond during snowfall in Central Park on Feb. 23 in New York City.
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Birds fly between a tree and a railing amid heavy snow on February 23, 2026 in Brooklyn, New York.
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Children sled on Cedar Hill in Central Park in New York on Feb. 23 during a snow storm.
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A person carrying flowers walks through the snow in the Lower East Side on February 23, 2026 in New York City.
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