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Since the start of the year, the Federal Aviation Administration has proposed nearly $2 million in penalties.

The investigation started in November after a report of an incident at a South Las Vegas Boulevard hotel.

Roger Ng was accused of participating in the $4.5 billion scheme, which involved Malaysia's state investment fund.

Academy Award-winning actor Will Smith has been banned from attending the Oscars for ten years after slapping Chris Rock on stage at the awards show. Smith resigned from the organization a week ago, avoiding suspension or expulsion by the Academy’s committee. Despite the new sanctions, Smith can still be nominated and win an Oscar during his break.  

Adam Fox, Barry Croft Jr, Brandon Caserta, and Daniel Harris were accused of targeting Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer because of her Covid restrictions. The four were charged with planning to kidnap the governor from her summer home and blow up a bridge leading to it to slow the police response. However, after four and a half days of deliberating, a federal court jury returned with no convictions.  

The highly contagious BA2 subvariant has driven the first two-week increase in Covid cases since January. Cases have jumped nearly 60 percent in Washington, D.C. and are climbing in 18 states. 53 people have tested positive after attending a political event last week which included a growing number within President Biden’s inner circle. Though experts say cases are still low, Dr. Fauci warns that it is likely we will see a large surge in the fall.

A company called Axiom is setting the stage for its own private space station. This journey from Earth to the International Space Station in orbit is designed to establish how the Houston company aims to use the ISS as a high-tech construction trailer. Axiom plans to build modules that will eventually become its own private office park. While three crew members have paid $55 million each, Axiom says this is not space tourism but rather a step toward a future with profits for private companies and unknown benefits for humanity. 

As Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was confirmed, shattering the law’s highest glass ceiling, less than ten miles away, three law students were watching with pride at American University’s Washington College of Law. Nia Langley focuses on human rights, Rolonda Donelson is studying reproductive law, and Imani Brooks, who hopes to follow in Judge Jackson’s footsteps. They recount what this historic moment means to them as female Black law students.

He fell on the sidewalk while visiting Providence with his son last August.

The shooter, seen on security video, was at-large following the attack outside South Bronx High School, police said.