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A military F-16 aircraft crashed on Wednesday during a training flight in the northwestern Turkish province of Yalova, Turkey's defense ministry said. 

The FAA says its push to recruit video gamers as air traffic controllers has helped it hire more than 2,000 trainees, reaching 94% of its hiring goal. Another 2,000-plus candidates are in the pipeline. CBS News reports: U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy said in a recent social media post that the federal agency's recruitment campaign to recruit gamers as air traffic controllers has been a "game changer" for the Federal Aviation Administration. [...] When Duffy announced the initiative in April, he acknowledged that the Transportation Department needed to extend its reach to recruit prospective air traffic controllers. "A lot of what they do playing games ... is what they do ... controlling traffic in the air," Duffy told CBS News senior transportation correspondent Kris Van Cleave in an interview on Tuesday at New Jersey's Newark Liberty International Airport. Duffy added that many current trainees started out as gamers. Only about 25% of controllers hold a traditional college degree, while former controllers note that gaming requires many of the same skills that air traffic controllers use on the job, such as thinking quickly, staying focused and managing multiple sources of information as they guide more than 80,000 flights to their destinations daily.

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The committee was scheduled to hear the application on August 12, but this has been adjourned to September 2

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Simon Levy brutally murdered two women, 53-year-old Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo and 39-year-old Sheryl Wilkins, and raped and near-fatally suffocated a third woman.

James Buckley returned to work for the first time on Wednesday after revealing he has been diagnosed with a genetic condition.

Aside from being incredible to look at, solar eclipses are also known to spark cascades of strange events.

Helix claims nearly a million files, while the logistics biz says operations never hit the brakes

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