Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy promised to improve the nation's transportation infrastructure and systems after Vice President JD Vance swore in Duffy on Wednesday afternoon.

Vice President JD Vance, left, shakes hands with Sean Duffy after swearing him in as secretary of transportation as his wife, Rachel Campos-Duffy, holds the Bible in the Indian Treaty Room in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

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According to federal statistics, there are 60,000 Department of Defense personnel in Colorado including active duty, National Guard and civilians. Defense spending amounts to nearly $13 billion annually, which is 2.7% of the gross state product.

A memo obtained by independent journalist Ken Klippenstein made the rounds on social media Thursday after it instructed staff to prioritize funding for areas with higher marriage and birth rates. The memo appears to be from President Donald Trump's Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and came with the subject line: "Ensuring reliance upon sound

WASHINGTON — An American Airlines regional jet carrying 64 people collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter late Wednesday near Reagan National Airport in Virginia just across from the District of Columbia, plunging both aircraft into the Potomac River.

Instead of compassion, Trump exhibited his classic harshness with distasteful remarks that appeal to the worst of his base, but not the best of America.

All are feared dead in a crash involving a Black Hawk helicopter built by Connecticut's Sikorsky and an American Airlines plane in Washington, D.C.

Ratcliffe received a bachelor's degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1987, and a law degree from Southern Methodist University in 1989. Before being elected to Congress, Ratcliffe served as the mayor of Heath, Texas, from 2004 to 2012. He also ...

Here are live updates on the deadly collision between a passenger jet and an Army helicopter near Washington, D.C.

Trump suggested that people with "severe intellectual disabilities" had been hired as air traffic controllers under the Obama and Biden administrations.