Federal officials, dispatch call reveal what happened during Vance Boelter’s alleged rampage
MINNEAPOLIS – Minnesota lawmaker shooting suspect Vance Luther Boelter, 57, has been hit with new federal charges after officials captured him in Sibley County on Sunday night in what police described as the “largest manhunt” in the state’s history.
He is charged with two counts of stalking, two counts of murder and two counts of firearm-related crimes in federal court.
In addition to the federal charges, Boelter is facing second-degree murder charges filed in Hennepin County, where he is accused of killing former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, early Saturday morning at their Brooklyn Park home in Minneapolis, and shooting State Sen. John Hoffman, also a Democrat, and his wife, Yvette, in their nearby Champlin home in a related attack.
The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office on Monday announced that it intends to file first-degree murder charges against the suspect.
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Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph H. Thompson described Boelter’s alleged actions as “chilling” during a Monday news conference, saying the suspect first arrived at the Hoffmans’ home wearing a police-like uniform in a black SUV with emergency lights turned on and a license plate that read “police.”
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“Boelter wore a black tactical vest and body armor. He carried a flashlight and a Beretta 9 mm handgun,” Thompson said. “He also wore a hyper-realistic silicon mask. Senator Hoffman had a security camera. I’ve seen the footage from that camera, and it is chilling. Boelter knocked on Senator Hoffman’s front door, and repeatedly shouted, ‘This is police. Open the door.'”
“It’s no exaggeration to say this is the stuff of nightmares.”
When they opened the door, Boelter shined a light in their faces, and the Hoffmans soon realized the suspect was not a police officer. The suspect then shot the Hoffmans and fled the scene, and their daughter called 911, Thompson said.
Following the shooting at the Hoffmans’ residence, Boelter traveled to the home of another Minnesota State Representative in the Maple Grove neighborhood.
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Around 2:24 a.m. Saturday, he knocked on the unnamed state lawmaker’s door wearing the same silicon mask and police uniform. He knocked on the representative’s door, but no one answered, as the lawmaker and his wife were on vacation. Thompson described security footage as “haunting.”
“Boelter planned his attack carefully.”
Around 2:36 a.m. Saturday, Boelter traveled to another state senator’s home in New Hope, Minnesota. Boelter parked on the street in his black SUV. New Hope police dispatched an officer to the state senator’s home to conduct a wellness check. Upon arrival, an officer located Boelter’s SUV parked on the block with its lights on, according to the U.S. Attorney.
“The New Hope police officer pulled up next to Boelter…rolled down her window and attempted to speak with him. Boelter did not respond,” Thompson said. “The New Hope police officer proceeded to the state senator’s home, and she waited for law enforcement to arrive. … By the time they did, Boelter had left the scene.
Boelter then traveled to the Hortmans’ home in Brooklyn Park, where he allegedly shot Melissa and Mark, wearing the same police uniform and mask.
Boelter is currently charged with two counts of second-degree murder for the deaths of Victims 1 and 2 — identified as Melissa and Mark Hortman — and two counts of attempted second-degree murder for the shootings of Victims 3 and 4 — identified as John Hoffman and Yvette Hoffman — in Hennepin County.
Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said Monday that those were the charges they could file via complaint on Sunday so they could take Boelter into custody at an early point in their investigation into the suspect’s alleged actions.
All charges are felonies, and each carries a maximum sentence of 40 years in prison, with a mandatory minimum of three years due to the use of a firearm.
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The Sibley County Sheriff’s Office told Fox News that Boelter “verbally” identified himself to authorities searching for him in the area on Sunday evening.
Sibley County resident Kevin Effertz, who owns the property where Boelter was arrested, told Fox News Digital on Monday that a friend who stopped by his home Sunday saw something suspicious.
“She saw this guy out in the field that was by himself, dressed in black, just with his back towards her,” Effertz said. “When she started coming down the driveway, he ducked down, which made her kind of suspicious.”
The friend then “waved down” a police officer nearby, who told her to go to a safe area.
“Within 20 minutes, she called me back and said they already had him,” Effertz said.
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Authorities uncovered a disturbing arsenal in Boelter’s possession, documents said. Inside his vehicle, registered to him, police found three AK-47 assault rifles, a 9mm handgun, and a list of names and addresses of other public officials.
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His bail was set at $5 million.
Authorities have said the suspect targeted lawmakers in a planned attack, showing up at their homes wearing a police-like uniform and a mask.
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Democratic Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar shared a message from Hoffman’s wife on Sunday, saying the state senator was shot nine times and she eight.
“John is enduring many surgeries right now and is closer every hour to being out of the woods,” Yvette wrote. “He took [nine] bullet hits. I took [eight] and we are both incredibly lucky to be alive. We are gutted and devastated by the loss of Melissa and Mark. There is never a place for this kind of political hate.”
Randolph Rice, former prosecutor, partner at Rice Law in Baltimore, told Fox News Digital that the federal charges filed against Boelter “significantly changes” with “the legal landscape for the accused, Vance Boelter.”
“Minnesota abolished the death penalty more than a century ago, so if this case were prosecuted solely at the state level, capital punishment would not be on the table,” Randolph said. “However, these federal charges open the door to the possibility of the death penalty if the Department of Justice decides to pursue it. Moreover, the resources and experience of the U.S. Attorney’s Office will ensure a thorough and vigorous prosecution.”
Canadian PM Carney cuts off Trump’s press questions ahead of G7 summit
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney cut off questioning to President Donald Trump, taking back a few minutes of time from reporters ahead of the start of the G7 summit.
Trump answered several questions about Russia’s dismissal from what was previously known as the G8 under former President Barack Obama and former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s leadership, as well as the ongoing conflict between Israel and Iran. The last question Trump responded to focused on a social media post of his in which he called for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to expand efforts to detain and deport illegal immigrants in America’s largest cities, such as Los Angeles, New York and Chicago.
“Biden allowed 21 million people to come into our country,” Trump said. “The vast numbers of those people and murderers, killers, people from gangs, people from jails, they emptied their jails out into the U.S. Most of those people are in the cities, all blue cities, all Democrat-run cities, and they think they’re going to use them to vote. It’s not going to happen.”
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Receiving a nod of approval from Trump, Carney then cut the session off early.
“If you don’t mind,” Carney said, “I’m going to exercise my role if you will as G7 chair, since we have a few more minutes with the president and his team, and then we actually have to start the meeting to address some of the big issues. So thank you.”
Trump had reminded reporters that the G7 summit used to be the G8 until Obama and Trudeau pushed out Russia. Russia’s membership was suspended following the 2014 annexation of Crimea.
“That was a mistake because I think you wouldn’t have a war right now if you had Russia, and you wouldn’t have a war right now if Trump were president four years ago,” Trump told reporters. “But it didn’t work out that way.”
“It was a mistake in that you spend so much time talking about Russia. He’s no longer at the table, so it makes life more complicated,” Trump said of Russian President Vladimir Putin. “But you wouldn’t have had the war. And, other than that, I think we’re going to accomplish a lot, and I expect to, and I think our primary focus would be trade and trade with Canada, and I’m sure we can work something out.”
When asked what was holding up a trade deal with Canada, Trump told reporters, “I’m a tariff person, I’ve always been a tariff person.” He said Carney “has a more complex idea, but also very good,” looking forward to negotiations during the summit.
Trump also said he has received messages signaling Iran wants to de-escalate the conflict with Israel.
“They’d like to talk, but they should have done that before. I had 60 days … and on the 61st day I said, we don’t have a deal. They have to make a deal. And it’s painful for both parties,” Trump said. “But I’d say Iran is not winning this war. And they should talk, and they should talk immediately before it’s too late.”
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When asked what it would take for the U.S. to get involved in the conflict militarily, Trump responded, “I don’t want to talk about that.”
Trump further addressed the fallout of nixing Russia from the summit. Other than the U.S. and Canada, the remaining G7 countries are the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy and Japan.
“Putin speaks to me, he doesn’t speak to anybody else. He doesn’t want to talk because he was very insulted when he got thrown out of the G8, as I would be, as you would be, as anybody would be, is very insulting,” Trump said.
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Trump, however, suggested it might be too late to include Russia now, given Putin’s 2022 large-scale invasion of Ukraine.
“I’m not saying he should at this point, because too much water has gone over the dam, maybe,” Trump said. “But, it was a big mistake. Obama didn’t want them and the head of your country, the proud head of your country, didn’t want him. This was a big mistake. You wouldn’t have that war.”
EXCLUSIVE: Following a week of violent riots in Los Angeles, conservative activist group Catholic Vote has released a report titled the “Gavin Newsom files,” a report highlighting what the group calls the California governor’s “extreme” and “viciously anti-Christian agenda.”
Newsom, the Democratic governor of California, is among the top names being rumored for a 2028 presidential run.
Over the last week, he has been locked in a protracted war of words, which has also manifested itself in a court battle, over President Donald Trump’s response to the riots in Los Angeles. Newsom has called Trump’s use of the National Guard and Marines to respond to the rioting both “immoral” and “illegal.”
A longtime progressive, Newsom has recently moved to present himself as more of a centrist, starting a podcast titled “This is Gavin Newsom” that hosted the likes of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk.
According to Catholic Vote’s report, however, Newsom is “one of America’s most radical, destructive politicians” who “remains the same ideologue who has trampled parental rights, championed the transgender mutilation of children, and taken pro-abortion advocacy to a sickening extreme.”
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“California’s governor claims to be a Catholic ‘man of faith,’” says the report. “But he has a viciously anti-Christian agenda for America.”
Brandon Richards, a spokesperson for Newsom, responded to the report by telling Fox News Digital that “we’re not taking seriously any organization co-founded by a political hack who has sworn allegiance to President Trump, called Pope Francis’ papacy a ruse, and justified cutting off U.S. foreign aid for the poor and hungry because he’d read some conspiracy theory about transgender mice experiments.”
Catholic Vote endorsed Trump for president in 2024 and Catholic Vote founder Brian Burch was selected to be the administration’s U.S. ambassador to the Vatican.
Richards said, “we encourage Catholic Vote, which does not represent the Catholic Church, to read Leviticus: ‘You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.’”
‘As California goes, so goes the rest of the nation’
The report highlights how, despite his recent rebranding, Newsom has long been at the forefront of pushing for ever more liberal policies, championing causes such as abortion and transgender treatments for children.
“Gavin Newsom may be adjusting his style and image. But he remains the same ideologue who has trampled parental rights, championed the transgender mutilation of children, and taken pro-abortion advocacy to a sickening extreme,” says the report.
As a politician with rumored presidential aspirations, Catholic Vote highlights how Newsom has advanced his liberal agenda not just in California, but across the entire country.
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The group quoted Newsom from a 2008 interview during a court battle over same-sex marriage, saying: “As California goes, so goes the rest of the nation. It’s inevitable.”
Catholic Vote takes particular issue with Newsom’s abortion advocacy, pointing to how he has aggressively expanded abortion in California, signing 12 pro-abortion bills in a single month in September 2022 and nine more again in 2023. The report says that despite professing to be a Catholic, Newsom has not only advocated for a right to abortion, but even used biblical scripture to advertise and promote abortion.
The report points to how, as governor, Newsom commissioned billboards in Oklahoma that advertised “Need an abortion? California is here to help,” with a quote from the Bible saying, “Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no greater commandment than these.”
“This was deemed ‘unconscionable’ by the California Catholic Conference, and a ‘reprehensible act of gross blasphemy’ by a leading Protestant pastor. A statement from the Catholic League summed it up best, calling the billboard campaign ‘demonic,’” says the report.
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Catholic Vote stated that “Few figures demonstrate the drift of America’s political Left – away from the Clinton-era language of ‘safe, legal, and rare,’ and toward today’s ‘#ShoutYourAbortion’ attitude – better than Gavin Newsom.”
The report also points to how Newsom has led the nation to “warp” the concept of parental choice to use it as a tool to advance transgender treatments for children. It points to how Newsom signed a bill in 2022 making California the nation’s first “sanctuary state” for parents from other jurisdictions seeking to give their children hormone treatment, puberty-blocking drugs and more. It says that in 2023, Newsom again “doubled down on this strategy of imposing radical ideology and calling it ‘freedom.’ When he instituted new penalties on public school districts that fail to promote homosexuality and transgenderism to children, he framed this as a matter of ‘families’ having ‘the freedom to decide what’s right for them.’”
According to the report, Newsom’s office released a statement in 2023 after he signed a slate of “Supporting LGBTQ+ Californians” policies that declared “hate-filled attacks” of “far-right extremists” would “not be tolerated.”
Catholic Vote said that “if California is indeed ‘America’s Coming Attraction,’ as Newsom claims, believers in Biblical truth – and biological reality – should be gravely concerned.”
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“Inevitably, the advance of LGBTQ ideology threatens religious liberty and authentic freedom of conscience in society. These ideologues demand forms of approval and practical compliance that faithful Christians, and other critics of gender nonsense, cannot give them,” says the report.
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“Americans have been shocked by the rioting and chaos in Los Angeles, but sadly, this reckless governance is all too common in Gavin Newsom’s California,” Catholic Vote Vice President Josh Mercer told Fox News Digital.
“As our new report, Newsom Files points out, the California governor refused to deal with vexing problems like drug dealers, shoplifters and the rampant homeless camps. Instead, Gavin Newsom was busy dreaming of the White House and spending taxpayer funds to put up billboards in Oklahoma that quote the Bible and urge people to fly to California to get an abortion,” he said. “With his wacky priorities, it’s no wonder people are fleeing California in droves.”
Here’s what surprised me most when Never Trump and MAGA met in Washington
In the 19th century, steam locomotives were very cool, and as my son and I discovered at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, they are also one of the few things that can bring MAGA and Never Trump together.
That was the strange scene the morning of the U.S. Army 250th Birthday Parade and the Washington anti-Trump protests, both scheduled for later that day, at the American History Museum, families with “No Kings” T-shirts next to folks in MAGA hats, all admiring our nation’s greatness.
It felt a bit like the dance at the gym in “West Side Story,” neutral territory for our political Jets and Sharks, but with less jumping.
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Beyond the museum walls was a festival atmosphere of flags and patriotic adornments, but also the signs of hyper-security, even snow plow trucks back-to-back blocking the District’s streets.
I met Jeremy from Virginia, whose crew dropped the eight miles of concrete barriers protecting the parade route. I ask if they do this work often, he said, “this kind of thing is a small part of our business but has great margins. It’s a nice bonus.”
And it made me think, as he and his guys took a smoke break, how much of the much ballyhooed $25-$45-million-dollar price tag of the U.S. Army parade went to companies like this? These are the little stories beneath big national ones.
Likewise, the protest of 1,000 souls or so marching to and fro, very near the parade site required a heavy police presence, which made me wonder how much 2,000 No Kings protests all across the country costs states and localities.
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And nobody elected anybody to decide to spend that money, which isn’t to say people shouldn’t protest, but those who use taxpayer money to complain really shouldn’t rain on anyone else’s parade.
Katie and Cindy had come up from Georgia to be at the Army Parade and were typical of the Trump supporters in town, “we just love him,” Katie told me, hair in a ponytail behind her MAGA hat.
But there were people there to protest, too. Scott had come from Seattle and wore his No Kings shirt, adorned with American flag imagery, “I don’t think any protests will pop off at the parade,” he told me. He was right.
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A rule of thumb that I have discovered all over the country held firm in D.C.: when people are together, in person, in relatively small groups, rational and respectful political discourse can — and does — happen.
At one point, I watched as two women in Trump shirts politely tried to explain to two men in pride gear that Trump is not a racist or a homophobe. I don’t know if any minds were changed but just the tone was a welcome and hopeful sign.
Physical interaction is an antidote to hatred and fear, and that is exactly why both sides often try to silo their supporters to maintain ideological purity, whether it’s the right saying, ignoring the mainstream media, or the left blocking certain channels from their parents’ cable news diet, and bragging about it in the New York Times.
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This siloing tactic works so long as you keep everything online, so long as you tell people to cut out family members on the other side from their lives, so long as the algorithm provides soothing reinforcement of beliefs.
The touch of human breath, in a real conversation, breezes all of that conditioning away, and two people, who are just being people, can truly talk about anything.
On Saturday, Washington, D.C. was unique in that it held court to one major event bringing out Donald Trump supporters and another for those who despise him. Despite the proximity, order held and both groups seemed to claim success by nightfall.
There were fireworks in the sky, but blessedly none on the ground.
The highlight of the Museum of American History, especially as it was also Flag Day, is Old Glory herself, the original Star Spangled Banner that flew over Ft. McHenry during the War of 1812.
“I didn’t think it would be this big,” my son said, gazing beyond the glass at the 32’ by 40’ historical treasure.
It is a big flag. And today it represents a very big and diverse nation, one with fractures running through it made of politics, race, and identity.
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But when we get small, when we talk one on one and really listen, those fractures mend. And I saw some of that in our nation’s capital this weekend.
Let’s pray it is a growing trend.
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Marine veteran candidate slammed for photo with sign critics call threat to Trump
Republicans in swing state New Hampshire are criticizing the move by a Democratic congressional candidate to post a photo of herself next to an “86 47” sign, which some in the GOP see as a shorthand message suggesting violence against President Donald Trump.
Maura Sullivan, a former Marine Corps officer who deployed in the Iraq War and later served at the Pentagon and the Veterans Administration under former President Barack Obama, attended a “No Kings” protest this past weekend in her hometown of Portsmouth, N.H. Demonstrators at thousands of rallies nationwide on Saturday protested what they call the president’s anti-democratic actions and authoritarian tendencies.
Sullivan, while at the rally, posted on social media a photo of herself standing next to a fellow veteran who was holding a sign that read “Veterans for Democracy.”
But the sign also included the phrase “Foxtrot Delta Tango,” as well as the message “86 47.”
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“Foxtrot Delta Tango” is a military-style phrase in the NATO phonetic alphabet that spells out the letters “FDT,” which is seen as a derogatory term towards Trump.
While “86” is a term long used in restaurants to signify when they are out of a food item on a menu, or in bars or military circles to get rid of something – or someone.
And of late, some Republicans perceive it as a message to have Trump eliminated.
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The Secret Service continues to investigate former FBI director James Comey after he earlier this year posted on social media an image of seashells arranged to spell “86 47.”
Comey, following a conservative uproar, took down his post and apologized.
The social media post by Sullivan, one of two top Democrats running to succeed Rep. Chris Pappas in New Hampshire’s 1st Congressional District, came hours after the horrific shootings of two leading Minnesota Democratic state lawmakers – one of them fatal.
State Rep. Melissa Hortman, the former speaker of the Minnesota state House, and her spouse were killed, and Sen. John Hoffman and his spouse were severely wounded in the shootings, which appear to be politically motivated attacks.
Sullivan’s congressional campaign, in a statement to Fox News, pointed to the Minnesota shootings.
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“Maura is outraged and heartbroken about the assassination of a public servant in Minnesota. She believes that there is absolutely no place for violence in our politics, regardless of party or affiliation,” Sullivan campaign manager Nick London said.
London added that on Saturday, “Maura joined thousands of Granite Staters and millions of Americans in peacefully protesting Donald Trump’s use of our servicemembers as props for his political agenda. If the President cared about our veterans, he would be focused on improving healthcare at the VA, expanding mental health services and supporting our military families.”
Republicans in New Hampshire quickly criticized Sullivan over her post.
“I knew Maura was cozying up with the extreme radical left, but this is a step too far. Calls for political violence like this have no place in New Hampshire,” New Hampshire GOP chair Jim MacEachern said in a statement.
And NHGOP vice chair Hollie Novoletsky, who came in second in the 2024 GOP congressional primary in the 1st District, said in a statement, “Whether the target of an assassination is President Trump or a Democrat State Rep in MN, it is unacceptable. You’d think as a ‘Veteran for Democracy,’ Maura would know that.”
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The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), the campaign arm of the House GOP, which is trying to flip the district for the first time in eight years, went further.
“Political violence has no place in our country – and posing with propaganda calling for the assassination of President Trump is dangerous and disqualifying,” NRCC spokeswoman Maureen O’Toole argued. “Maura Sullivan must apologize, take down the photo, and take herself out of the running for New Hampshire’s First Congressional District.”
Senate panel unveils portion of Trump’s bill amid Republican divisions
A Senate panel charged with some of the most hot-button portions of President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” unveiled its portion of the gargantuan package on Monday.
The Senate Finance Committee, which has jurisdiction over tax policy, Medicaid and a slew of other items baked into the House GOP’s version of the bill, released its text as Republicans sprint to finish work on the president’s bill ahead of a self-imposed July 4 deadline.
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The committee, chaired by Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, had to walk a perilous tightrope with their legislation, given the push and pull surrounding divisive cuts to Medicaid, an increase to the state and local tax (SALT) deduction cap and other provisions in the House’s version of the bill.
Crapo lauded the bill in a statement, and noted that it made the president’s 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act permanent, slashed “Green New Deal” spending and targeted “waste, fraud and abuse in spending programs while preserving and protecting them for the most vulnerable.”
“I look forward to continued coordination with our colleagues in the House and the Administration to deliver President Trump’s bold economic agenda for the American people as quickly as possible,” he said.
While House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., pleaded with Senate leaders to change the bill as little as possible after narrowly passing the bill in the House, particularly on the compromises he reached on SALT and Medicaid, the Senate has vowed to leave its imprint on the package.
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Crapo and Republican committee members have similarly had to navigate divisions in the upper chamber, particularly around Medicaid tweaks to provider payments and an increase to the SALT cap to $40,000 — a change needed to ram the bill through the House, but one Senate Republicans dislike.
Air India flight turns back to Hong Kong after pilot expresses concerns
An Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner turned around and went back to its point of origin after takeoff, just days after the airline experienced a deadly crash that killed 241 people onboard.
Air India’s flight AI315 returned to Hong Kong on Monday as a precautionary measure due to “a technical issue,” the airline told Reuters. The flight was headed to New Delhi before it returned safely and underwent checks “as a matter of abundant precaution.”
Flight AI315 took off from Hong Kong around 12:20 p.m., reached an altitude of 22,000 feet and started descending, according to flight tracking website AirNav Radar. The plane is seven years old, Reuters reports.
One of the pilots told air traffic controllers about 15 minutes after takeoff that “for technical reasons, sir, we would like to stay closer to Hong Kong, maybe we will come back and land back into Hong Kong once we sort out the problem,” according to recordings from air traffic control monitoring website LiveATC.net reviewed by Reuters.
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“We don’t want to continue further,” the pilot said, before returning.
Air India’s Chairman N. Chandrasekaran on Monday told staff that last week’s plane crash should be a catalyst to build a safer airline, urging employees to stay resolute amid any criticism.
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There was only one survivor from Thursday’s Boeing 787-8 crash that happened shortly after take-off from the Indian city of Ahmedabad. The plane had been bound for London Gatwick Airport.
Viswashkumar Ramesh, the lone survivor, described his survival as a “miracle” while speaking to DD India.
“I can’t explain,” he said. “When I got up, there were bodies all around me. I was scared,” Ramesh erportedly told the Hindustan Times.
Ramesh told DD News that he “saw people dying,” reports indicate.
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“Air India remains in mourning on the tragic loss of 241 passengers and crew members aboard flight AI171. Our hearts are with the families, loved ones, and communities affected by the accident,” Air India posted to X on Sunday.
Doc Rivers tells Democrats what they need to change after Trump’s win over Harris
Milwaukee Bucks head coach Doc Rivers spoke up about what Democrats need to do in order to take back the White House after President Donald Trump defeated Kamala Harris in the 2024 election.
Rivers, who is a staunch opponent of Trump going back to the president’s first term in office, said Democrats need to make a change and try to get everyone on the same side of issues.
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“Well, the first thing we have to point towards is getting out of our comfort zone and thinking if we keep doing the same thing we are going to get different results,” Rivers told MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace on her podcast. “That doesn’t happen, there needs to be change from the Democratic side. I don’t know what that change is, but I know the norm has not worked. The norm worked on the popular vote, but there are states that haven’t voted on the Democratic side in 50 years.
“We are a party of being [inclusive], everybody is included, right? But I remember Cory Booker, we are at a function, and I ask him why can’t the Democrats all agree on something, because the Republicans do that well. You have to look at some of the things they do well. One of the things they do is they fall in line. They don’t care. If you listen to some of the things these guys said about Trump and then when you hear them speak now, all they do is praise, they are falling in line. But he said something interesting. He said we have so many groups on our side, we don’t just have the White male. We have everybody, and to get everybody to agree on one thing is very difficult, but we’re going to have to start doing that if we want change.”
Rivers said one of the things Democrats need to get away from is the “Trump won because” debate. He made an analogy to how he would go about coaching a game if the team was coming off a loss.
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“I think we need to take the ‘because’ out, and I am serious. Trump won and start there, not ‘because.’ Trump won and what do we have to do differently? You have to take ownership of things. We do it in sports all the time,” he told Wallace.
“Yeah, I come in after a game we lost ‘because.’ But then I say we lost, but we have to do these things differently if we want to win. We can’t just say we lost because ‘they just made a lot of shots.’ Then we have to force them to miss more shots, we have to do something different. It is so strange we are blaming the people who voted for Trump for why he won. It makes no sense to me. It’d backwards.”
Rivers said the bottom line was the Democrats didn’t get enough people to actually go out and vote.
“We didn’t get enough people out to vote,” he said. “That is one thing. We have to figure out, first start with ourselves, how can we ignite ourselves, our side to vote more, because we have more people to vote. We have to make them excited, we have to connect to them. We’re not connecting.
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“We complain about Black men. You know, the majority of Black men did vote for Kamala, as it turns out. It is just that it wasn’t a big majority. It wasn’t enough people. Why is that? There is a feel of hopelessness in our community. I think a lot of Black men are saying now it does not matter, either side, we are not being helped, we are still being incarcerated. We still are struggling. So there has got to be an answer. And we have to figure out how we can answer that question if we are looking at that part of it for sure.”