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Extra Extra: A Newark air-traffic controller on averting a midair collision with seconds to spare
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Published May 16, 2025
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Good Friday afternoon in New York City, where Amtrak's East River tunnels are in such bad shape that parts crumble at the slightest touch!
Here's what else is happening:
- The ghost plate crackdown continues.
- Hadi Matar, the man convicted of trying to stab Salman Rushdie to death in 2022, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison.
- "It’s like a videogame, but it’s like playing 3D chess at 250 miles an hour." So says a veteran air-traffic controller who recently saved two planes seconds before a head-on collision near Newark Airport, in a long interview to the Wall Street Journal about the stress of the job.
- Apparently this pizzeria on Mott Street is very good.
- "I don’t want to be a wise guy, but when Hitler made his speech at the Eiffel Tower, I would say that wasn’t exactly ideal," said President Donald Trump, referring to a historical event that didn't happen.
- Styles P has been working out.
- Caitlin Clark has been working out.
- We're getting a hello82.
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