Officials with the National Transportation Safety Board investigate the site, Monday, March 23, 2026, where an Air Canada jet came to rest after colliding with a Port Authority firetruck at LaGuardia Airport, shortly after landing Sunday night in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Jet-truck collision kills pilots at LaGuardia Airport

NEW YORK (AP) — An Air Canada jet carrying more than 70 passengers collided with a fire truck while landing at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, killing two pilots and injuring several others. Officials say the fire truck was crossing the tarmac late Sunday after being given permission to respond to another plane reporting an odor onboard. Before the collision, an air traffic controller can be heard on airport communications frantically telling the fire truck to stop. The crash shut down LaGuardia — the New York region’s third busiest hub — during what was already a messy time at U.S. airports. Travelers have been facing long security lines due to a government shutdown and the busy spring break travel season.

ICE ordered to supplement TSA

ATLANTA (AP) — More federal immigration officers are making their way to U.S. airports after President Donald Trump said he’d deploy them to supplement the Transportation Security Administration during a government shutdown that has caused long lines at security checkpoints across the country. Federal officers are a routine presence at international airports, where Customs and Border Protection officers screen arriving travelers and Homeland Security Investigations agents handle criminal cases tied to smuggling, trafficking and fraud. But what’s unusual in the current moment is their visibility at TSA security checkpoints.

Record-smashing heat continues

Brian Hermosillo wipes sweat from his brow while installing a new air conditioning unit during record-breaking heat Thursday, March 19, 2026, in Tempe, Ariz. (AP Photo/Caitlin O'Hara)

A huge heat dome is spreading across the United States and it is shattering March temperature records. On Monday, National Weather Service meteorologist Gregg Gallina said the heat covers an unusually large area. Weather historians say the dome has already smashed statewide March records in 14 states. By Wednesday parts of the Plains will reach the 90s. Experts say the heat wave’s footprint may rival major events in 2012 and 2021. World Weather Attribution says climate change makes this kind of heat about 800 times more likely. Forecasters say the pattern will last into next week.

Supreme Court rejects appeal from Texas death row inmate

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from longtime Texas death row inmate Rodney Reed who has sought to test crime-scene evidence that he says will help clear him. The justices on Monday left in place a ruling against Reed from the federal appeals court in New Orleans for the second time in less than three years. The three liberal justices dissented. Reed was sentenced to death for the 1996 killing of 19-year-old Stacey Stites. Prosecutors have refused to allow for DNA testing of the webbed belt that was used to strangle Stites as she made her way to work at a supermarket in Bastrop, southeast of Austin.