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Reporting the midair collision will focus on facts and people's stories

NPR's reporting will continue to focus on what happened and learning what we can about the victims and telling their stories.

Fog surrounds a Coast Guard vessel with a crane as it works near the wreckage of a Black Hawk helicopter in the Potomac River on Friday near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Va.

41 bodies recovered from D.C. plane crash site as search continues. Here's what to know

Authorities are combing the Potomac River for a second day in search of victims and more clues behind the deadliest U.S. air crash in over 20 years.

MCASD senior curator Jill Dawsey is shown standing near art from "For Dear Life: Art, Medicine, and Disability" in an undated photo. The works shown are Judith Scott's 1997 mixed media and string sculpture, "Untitled," and Jay DeFeo's 1989 series of graphite on paper, "Untitled (Reflections of Africa series)." Jill is wearing black pants and boots, a pink shirt, and a black cardigan. She has her hands tucked in her pockets, and she is looking at the camera and smiling slightly. She has brown hair and light skin.

Art, disability and learning to hold on

"For Dear Life" opens at Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, featuring American art about disability, medicine and health from the 1960s until the onset of COVID-19. For co-curator Jill Dawsey, this one is personal.

The cast of the Asolo Repertory Theatre production of Agatha Christie’s "Murder on the Orient Express," currently running at the Old Globe Theatre.

5 theater events to see in San Diego this fall

Our top picks for theater in San Diego this season: Agatha Christie, 'Midnight at the Never Get' and opera.

Dick Button smiles next to a painting of him while honored at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in San Jose, Calif., Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018.

Dick Button, Olympic great and voice of skating, dies at 95

The winner of two Olympic gold medals and five consecutive world championships, Button died Thursday in North Salem, New York, at age 95.

U.S. President Donald Trump takes questions from reporters about the collision of an American Airlines flight with a military Black Hawk helicopter near Ronald Reagan National Airport, in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on Jan. 30, 2025 in Washington, DC.

People with intellectual disabilities do lots of jobs — but they don't direct air traffic

After the fatal crash over the Potomac River, President Trump blamed diversity hiring. But that's not how disability hiring works.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is President Trump's pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. He faced more tough questions in his second confirmation hearing, held Thursday before the Senate HELP Committee.

RFK Jr., Trump's pick for HHS, grilled about vaccines again in Day 2 hearing

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he wanted "gold standard science" on vaccines, but when presented with compelling research, he cited reasons to doubt it.

The U.S. Army has identified two of the three service members who were killed Wednesday when their helicopter crashed into an American Airlines flight over the Potomac River. They were identified as Chief Warrant Officer 2 Andrew Loyd Eaves, 39, of Great Mills, Md., pictured left, and Staff Sgt. Ryan Austin O'Hara, 28, of Lilburn, Ga.

Army withholds name of Black Hawk helicopter crew in D.C. crash, 2 others identified

At the request of the family, the Army is not going to release the name of the female member of the Black Hawk crew killed in Wednesday's crash. The withholding of the name is a highly unusual move.

U.S. Census Bureau Director Robert Santos testifies during a House Oversight Committee hearing on the bureau in December 2024 on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.

Census Bureau Director Robert Santos is resigning, making way for Trump's pick

Census Bureau Director Robert Santos is resigning, giving President Trump an early opportunity to nominate an appointee to lead the bureau during key preparations for the 2030 census.

Antidepressants harder to quit than heroin? Fact-checking RFK Jr.

Fact checking RFK Jr.: No, antidepressants are not harder to quit than heroin.

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