FAA Warns of 3.5 Hour Flight Delays This Summer
The FAA projects delays up to 3.5 hours at major U.S. airports due to furloughs affecting 10 percent of air traffic controllers as sequestration budget cuts bite. Separately regulators near approval of a Project Statement of Compliance to resume Boeing 787 Dreamliner service within weeks after a three month grounding.
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Mississippi River locks to close amid flood rise
Seven locks from Muscatine to Laverton begin closure today as rain swollen waterway tops flood stage. River expected to crest Sunday at Muscatine Lock 16 reaching 21.3 feet, 5 feet above flood level and well below the record crest. A former Texas official charged with capital murder in killings of prosecutors and one wife faces $23 million bond.
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U.N. declares Syria in humanitarian catastrophe
The United Nations warns Syria faces a humanitarian catastrophe with millions displaced and thousands killed. Valerie Amos and Antonio Guterres urge the Security Council to condemn violence while Russia and China veto condemnations. Bashar Ja'afari blames terrorism and Western sanctions for the crisis.
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Musharraf in hiding as Pakistan tests democracy after detention
Musharraf remains under house arrest at his Chak Shahzad farmhouse after a high court denied bail and ordered his arrest. security forces sealed the area as Pakistan weighs bringing him to trial while the caretaker government faces a Supreme Court order.
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Elvis impersonator tied to ricin letters and hospital organ claim
Paul Kevin Curtis of Corinth Mississippi, charged with mailing ricin letters to President Obama and Senator Wicker, was described as an Elvis performer with a conspiracy mindset. The FBI confirmed ricin in the letters though no illness reported, and Curtis faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted.
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