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A United Airlines Boeing 777 heading to Tokyo had to turn around and land back at Dulles after one of its engines lost power right after takeoff. Part of the engine cover fell off and started burning, and debris from the thing sparked a small brush fire near the runway that got put out pretty...

This DoorDash driver in Indiana got busted for allegedly spraying something nasty on a customer's food order, and two people got sick from it. Kourtney Stevenson was caught on doorbell cam hitting the delivery with some aerosol, and the couple who ate it started puking hard with their mouths and...

Maryland's university system wrapped up its plagiarism investigation into President Darryll Pines and basically said he's off the hook. The yearlong probe by Ropes & Gray found a couple of his academic papers had some copied text from other authors, but they decided Pines wasn't the one who...

Jo Ann Allen Boyce passed away from pancreatic cancer at 84 in Los Angeles. She was part of the Clinton 12, a group of Black students who integrated Clinton High School in Tennessee back when she was just 14. This all went down before the famous Little Rock situation, and she dealt with angry...

Trump said he's gonna pardon Tina Peters, this 70-year-old former county clerk from Mesa County in Colorado, who got nine years for messing with voting machines after the 2020 election. Colorado Democrats are calling it total BS and saying the president has zero authority to overrule a state...

Biden's presidential library fundraising is basically dead in the water right now. His foundation pulled in zero new donations during his final year as president and is running on $4 million from leftover inauguration cash. The foundation expects to scrape together only $11.3 million by the end...

Twenty states led by California and New York filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over a new $100,000 charge for H-1B work visas. The administration claims the visa program gets abused by companies trying to keep worker pay down, but Attorney General Rob Bonta says the massive fee...

The Namibian Broadcasting Corporation lost one of its veteran employees when Lucia Engombe passed away at 53 after getting sick at Oshakati State Hospital. She spent 17 years working her way up from assistant producer in the religious department to running the entire German radio service, and...

Namibia's health ministry teamed up with Germany's Robert Koch Institute to run a workshop in Windhoek for medical staff who need to handle mpox and Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever cases better. Martha Josef, who helps coordinate mpox response, said the train-the-trainer setup gets regional...

Six Bangladeshi peacekeepers got killed when a drone slammed into their UN base in Kadugli, which sits in central Sudan's Kordofan region. Antonio Guterres came out swinging and said attacks on UN troops could count as war crimes, while the Sudanese military blamed the hit on the Rapid Support...

A judge in Windhoek told lawyers to chill out and narrow down their massive list of stuff they want the court to decide in a cannabis legalization case. Judge Claudia Claasen looked at the pretrial paperwork showing 78 factual questions and 31 legal ones, and she basically said that's way too...

Opposition politicians and policy wonks are calling out Namibia for letting whistle-blowers twist in the wind while hundreds of millions disappear from government funds. PDM leader McHenry Venaani pointed out that nearly a billion bucks vanished from the pension fund this year, and another 450...

Namibia's president dropped the news that anyone trying to get into the military, police, or prisons better have their National Youth Service certificate ready because that's the only way in from here on out. Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah told over 1,000 graduates at Rietfontein that the cabinet wants...

Pankratius Kondjamba took office as mayor of Oranjemund and told council members they need to get serious about helping residents find homes and build businesses. The Swapo politician laid out plans to grow infrastructure and attract investors while his deputy mayor, McCrailly Walters...

Thai and Cambodian troops kept blasting each other hours after Donald Trump announced both sides agreed to stop fighting, and Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said his country would only back down once Cambodia pulled out completely and cleared border landmines. The renewed clashes killed...

Eritrea just bounced from the Intergovernmental Authority on Development after accusing the East African bloc of working against member states like itself, and the foreign ministry said the organization stopped caring about its original mission. The country claims IGAD favors Ethiopia during...

Namibia landed the number five spot for the safest African country when it comes to money laundering and sketchy financial stuff, according to the Basel AML index that just dropped. The Financial Intelligence Centre boss, Bryan Eiseb, said their score kept getting better over three years, going...

Malawi Vice President Jane Ansah told people at Kaporo Primary School Ground in Karonga District that anyone caught flipping government relief maize to vendors will get prosecuted, along with whoever buys it from them. She dropped the warning while handing out food supplies under the Lean Season...

Julius Ng'oma from CISONECC dropped some reality checks about Malawian farming communities getting wrecked by climate shifts during a recent stakeholder meeting in Salima, and he pushed agroecology as the main path forward since most households depend on crops for survival. The coordinator...

Hot 97 just threw Funkmaster Flex into the morning slot after Ebro in the Morning got axed without warning, and the station confirmed he'll hold it down temporarily while they figure out what comes next. Ebro Darden ran mornings with Peter Rosenberg and Laura Stylez for over ten years before...