​NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!. House lawmakers are set to vote Tuesday on an aviation safety bill aimed at preventing another deadly midair collision near Washington, D.C.. The legislation, known as the ALERT Act, would require aircraft operating in busy or controlled airspace to use systems that help pilots track nearby planes and helicopters more precisely — a capability federal safety officials have long said could prevent catastrophic collisions.. The measure would also require new collision-prevention technology across much of the U.S. aircraft fleet, overhaul helicopter routes near major airports and require the Federal Aviation Administration to update air traffic control procedures and training.. The push for reform follows the Jan. 29, 2025, crash involving an American Airlines jet and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan National Airport that killed all 67 people aboard both aircraft. The disaster marked the deadliest U.S. plane crash in more than two decades.. FORMER AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER: OUR AIR TRAFFIC SYSTEM IS BEING HELD TOGETHER WITH EBAY PARTS. Lawmakers revised the bill in recent weeks after federal safety officials criticized an earlier version. It is now headed to the House floor after unanimous approval in two key committees.. “The bipartisan ALERT Act is a comprehensive package that addresses the probable cause, contributing factors and responds to all 50 safety recommendations that were issued by the NTSB,” Rep. Sam Graves, R-Mo., said during a March 26 House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee markup, per Roll Call. Graves and Rep. Rick Larsen, D-Wash., co-sponsored the bill.. Graves said lawmakers “worked diligently with the NTSB to refine and improve the legislation” after earlier concerns that the bill did not go far enough.. AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER SHOULD HAVE WARNED PLANE OF ARMY HELICOPTER’S PATH AHEAD OF FATAL DC CRASH: FAA. Federal investigators said safety concernssafety concerns went unaddressed for years before the collision.. The National Transportation Safety Board has said longstanding safety concerns went unaddressed in the years leading up to the crash.. The agency has recommended expanded aircraft-tracking technology since at least 2008, warning that gaps in how planes and helicopters detect one another in crowded airspace posed a serious risk. Investigators said such systems could have prevented the collision if both aircraft had them installed and activated.. The collision exposed broader weaknesses in how military and civilian aircraft operate in shared airspace, especially near major airports with heavy traffic.. At the time of the crash, the Army helicopter was not broadcasting its location data, in line with military policies designed to limit visibility during some operations. But the flight was a routine training mission, not a sensitive operation, raising questions about whether those exemptions should apply more broadly.. The House bill seeks to address some of t  

​The New York defense attorney for former NYPD Sgt. Erik Duran says he’s been completely overwhelmed by the public support for his client after last week’s sentencing in the death of a fleeing suspect. Duran was convicted of manslaughter in February after a bench trial in the death of Eric Duprey.

“It’s rare when you’re in my position to get such support from the community, when you’re a criminal defense attorney,” Duran’s lawyer, Arthur Aidala, told Fox News Digital. “So it’s been pretty amazing and… unique how many people have reached out, complaining about the verdict, complaining about the sentence, and their desires to help Sgt. Duran any way they can.”

Duprey was driving a motorized scooter toward bystanders and police while fleeing a drug sting when Duran threw a bystander’s Igloo cooler at him to stop him, according to Duprey’s defense team. He was traveling close to 30 mph and put pedestrians at risk of severe injury or death, a defense expert testified at trial. Duran said he threw the cooler to prevent anyone else from being hurt, according to the defense. It knocked Duprey to the ground; he wasn’t wearing a helmet and suffered a fatal head injury. Duran’s supporters have alleged that Duprey was a known member of the Trinitarios gang, which has been blamed for machete attacks in the Bronx in the past. Prosecutors from New York Attorney General Letitia James’s office had requested a five- to 15-year sentence.

Judge Guy Mitchell sentenced him to three to nine years in prison last week, a decision that drew political attention and prompted Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, New York’s Republican candidate for governor, to vow to pardon Duran on his first day in office if he defeats Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul in November. “I back the blue — that’s why Nassau County is the safest county in the nation,” Blakeman told Fox News Digital. “Meanwhile, in Kathy Hochul’s New York, a police officer is headed to prison while criminals get second chances. That’s backwards, and it will change when I’m governor.”

Mitchell rejected Duran’s argument that the cooler throwing was justified in order to protect other people from harm and said the sentence would serve as a “general deterrent” for other officers. Aidala told Fox News Digital, “It is such a unique set of circumstances, I don’t know what example it could set except to deter cops from doing the best they can.” Duran didn’t intend to use lethal force, he said, arguing that he improvised to handle a dangerous situation.  

​NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!. FREEPORT, Bahamas — The husband of a missing American woman who was held in a Bahamian jail for five days before his Monday night release will remain in the Bahamas, according to his attorney.. Brian Hooker was behind bars at the Central Police Station in Freeport from Wednesday to Monday evening as the Rohal Bahamian Police Force (RBPF), in conjunction with the U.S. Coast Guard, investigated the disappearance of his wife off the coast of Elbow Cay in Great Abaco Island on Saturday, April 4.. MISSING AMERICAN WOMAN’S HUSBAND BRIAN HOOKER RELEASED AFTER ARREST IN BAHAMAS DISAPPEARANCE. “He wants to continue with the search for his wife, because that is his main focus,” Terrel Butler told Fox News Digital. “So as long as he can remain in the Bahamas, you remain in the Bahamas.”. She said that on Tuesday, Hooker will meet with Bahamian police in an attempt to recover electronics, including his phone and computer, that were confiscated during the investigation.. It is unclear whether Hooker is in possession of his passport.  

​NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!. New video shows the moment that the Artemis II astronauts were welcomed back to Earth as a Navy medical team opened the hatch to their Orion module after the crew splashed down safely in the Pacific following their historic journey around the moon.. Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover and mission specialists Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen returned from their 10-day lunar mission on Friday, flying farther from Earth than any human has before.. On Monday, Wiseman shared new video on X showing the perspective of a Navy medical team opening the module’s hatch in the waters off the coast of San Diego.. “Jesse, Steve, Laddy, and Vlad…. such an incredible feeling to welcome you aboard Integrity after a nearly 700,000-mile journey. Forever thankful for your service to our crew and the nation,” Wiseman wrote in the X post.. ARTEMIS II ASTRONAUT TELLS TRUMP WHAT COMMUNICATION BLACKOUT WAS LIKE: ‘I SAID A LITTLE PRAYER’. After opening the hatch, the Navy team is heard greeting the returning astronauts. Two members of the team are seen entering the module and exchanging fist bumps with the Artemis II crew.. After being helped out of the Orion crew module, the four astronauts were taken aboard the USS John P. Murtha for medical evaluation after the mission.. The Orion spacecraft traveled 252,000 miles from Earth in its journey.. ARTEMIS II ASTRONAUTS NEARLY HALFWAY TO THE MOON AS NASA SHARES STUNNING PHOTOS FROM ORION SPACECRAFT. The spacecraft reentered the Earth’s atmosphere Friday at around 25,000 mph, slowing to about 20 mph using an 11-parachute sequence before landing in the ocean about 60 miles off the coast at 5:07 p.m. local time.. During its reentry, the temperatures outside the spacecraft reached as high as 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit.. In the next high-stakes mission set to launch next year, Artemis III astronauts will remain in Earth’s orbit and practice docking their Orion capsule with a commercial lunar lander, a critical step before any return to the moon.. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP. The Artemis IV is planned to follow in 2028, a mission that could carry astronauts in the first planned moon landing of the program.. Fox News Digital’s Brie Stimson contributed to this report.  

​NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!. More than four decades after a newborn girl was found suffocated and abandoned on a North Dakota college campus, authorities say DNA technology has finally led to a murder charge against a 65-year-old Arizona woman.. Nancy Jean Trottier, of Sun Lakes, Arizona, appeared in court Monday in Barnes County after investigators linked her through DNA to the infant known for decades only as “Rebecca,” Valley News Live in North Dakota reported.. The newborn’s body was discovered on April 16, 1981, in a wooded area behind a dorm on the Valley City State College campus. The baby still had her umbilical cord attached, and a plastic covering had been placed over her face.. An autopsy determined the infant had been born alive about three days before her body was discovered, and that she died from acute asphyxia, consistent with suffocation, the outlet reported.. MAN SENTENCED FOR STRANGLING MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE STUDENT TO DEATH WITH TANK TOP IN COLD CASE KILLING. For years, investigators had no suspect and no identity for the child. Police gave the baby the name “Rebecca” before she was buried.. The case was reopened in 2019 after advances in DNA technology. Authorities exhumed the child’s remains and used genetic genealogy to track down possible relatives.. The investigation eventually led to Trottier, who attended the college from 1978 to 1982.. TED BUNDY UNMASKED IN DECADES-OLD TEEN MURDER AS COLD CASE FINALLY SOLVED BY DNA: REPORT. During a 2021 interview, Trottier reportedly became emotional and told investigators, “maybe it was me” and “It could be, maybe it was me,” according to court documents obtained by Valley News Live and KVLY-TV.. DNA results returned in 2023 provided a breakthrough.. Investigators said it is 3.481 quadrillion times more likely that Trottier and her husband are the biological parents of the infant than unrelated individuals, the outlets reported. DNA consistent with Trottier was also found on tissue paper recovered at the scene.. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP. Trottier now faces a Class AA felony murder charge. She was being held on $750,000 bond, according to online court records.. She is scheduled to return to court for a preliminary hearing and arraignment on May 21.