Federal Aviation Administration chief Mike Whitaker made the comment in an online post Friday. Whitaker will step down as FAA administrator in two weeks.

In many parts of Europe, Epiphany, or Three King’s Day, is cause for excitement, particularly among children, who will be hoping for presents arriving by special means of delivery.

Azerbaijan claims that the Embraer 190 jet, made in Brazil, was unintentionally shot down by Russia. Brazil’s air force said in a statement that nine foreign investigators from three other countries, including Russia, have gathered with its own experts in the capital, Brasilia.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy also says it won’t be possible to end the almost three years of war in one day as U.S. President-elect Donald Trump claimed during his election campaign that he could do. 

His decision comes after the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States failed to reach consensus on the possible national security risks of the deal last month, and sent a long-awaited report on the merger to Biden.

All DODEA schools will be closed on Thursday in honor of former President Jimmy Carter.

“There must be a better way to better myself,” I thought on Jan. 1, shoving a two-week-old Christmas cookie in my mouth reflectively.

 Israeli strikes killed at least 42 people in Gaza, including children, overnight and into Friday, hospital and emergency response workers said, as health workers and Israel’s military traded claims over reported evacuation orders for two hospitals in the territory’s largely isolated north.

Capt. Hugh Nelson Jr. and Kenneth David, who fought in the Vietnam War, are the latest recipients of the Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest military award for valor in combat.

Five Korean War soldiers whose extraordinary heroism was not fully recognized at the time will be posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor as part of a campaign to shine a light on the role of minority service members in defense of the nation.

USS Kitty Hawk, off the coast of Japan, Pacific Ocean, April 15, 2002: Petty Officer 2nd Class Jack Lazenby, an air traffic controller, updates flight information on a board in the USS Kitty Hawk’s air traffic control center.

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff denied allegations that the military scattered anti-communist propaganda leaflets in North Korea to prompt a reaction from Pyongyang, according to a spokesman Thursday.

South Korean investigators have left the president’s official residence after a nearly six-hour standoff during which he defied their attempt to detain him. It’s the latest confrontation in a political crisis that has paralyzed South Korean politics and seen two heads of state impeached in under a month.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has fined the Navy and Defense Logistics Agency $5,000 for failing to attend a community meeting last month regarding the Red Hill fuel spill crisis as required by a consent order.

A federal appeals court on Thursday dealt a blow to President Joe Biden’s Federal Communications Commission, striking down the agency’s hard-fought and long-debated open internet rules.

China plans to tighten export restrictions on certain technology used to make battery components and the processing of two crucial metals amid rising trade tensions globally. 

President Biden is set within days to issue the executive order barring the sale of new drilling rights in portions of the country’s outer continental shelf, according to people familiar with the effort who asked not to be named because the decision isn’t public. 

Hoping to generate new tips from the public, the FBI is disclosing new information, including previously unreleased video, about a suspect who planted pipe bombs four years ago outside the offices of the Democratic and Republican national committees near the Capitol.