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“Supersized” El Niño’s harshest weather still ahead, including extreme heat, drought, floods, U.N. warns

With the burgeoning El Niño now forecast to intensify significantly in the coming months, the “supersized” climate event will likely have an outsized impact on severe weather around the world, fueling heat, drought and flooding, among other extremes, the United Nations warned Thursday. “El Niño is being supersized before our eyes,” U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said…

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Marine One’s warning calls before mishap went unheard by Reagan air traffic controllers, NTSB says

Air traffic controllers in Washington and the pilots of President Trump’s helicopter met to discuss communication issues one week before a jet was allowed to take off just as Marine One left the White House, federal investigators said Thursday. Controllers reported not receiving the standard three-minute warning call ahead of Marine One flights and both…

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