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Intelligence “is not for killing,” Colombian President Gustavo Petro told NBC News’ Richard Engel, explaining his decision to stop sharing information with the United States in opposition to lethal strikes on boats allegedly carrying illegal drugs.



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Nov. 13, 2025, 10:49 AM ESTBy Rebecca Cohen and Jay BlackmanPresident Donald Trump on Wednesday night signed a bill that reopened the government after 43 days, paving the way for airlines to restore regular flight schedules and air traffic controllers, who have not been receiving pay as they worked through the shutdown, to return to work.But it remains unclear when full flight schedules and paychecks will be restored after the Federal Aviation Administration was forced to mandate flight restrictions at 40 high-traffic airports last week. On Wednesday night, the FAA ordered that cancellations would remain at 6% on Thursday, after two days at that rate and an initial plan to ramp up to 10% by Friday. As of Thursday morning, nearly 1,000 flights within the U.S. had already been canceled for the day, and more than 900 were delayed, according to flight tracking website FlightAware. On Wednesday, only 900 flights were canceled — the lowest number since the FAA flight reductions began. It is not immediately clear if the flight disruptions were all connected to staffing issues. Airlines have said they are ready to ramp up as soon as they receive government clearance, which includes the FAA lifting the mandate on flight restrictions. And as soon as enough air traffic controllers return to work, ensuring that the increased number of planes can fly safely.“As the federal government reopens and controllers receive their backpay, the FAA will continue to monitor staffing levels and review key trend lines,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said in a Wednesday statement.It’s promising that staffing triggers have decreased in the last few days, after weeks when controllers were calling out “stressed” under the pressure of working without knowing when their next paycheck would arrive. Government officials have said that air traffic controllers are expected to receive about 70% of their missed pay within 48 hours of the government reopening, with the remaining 30% coming within the week.Airlines cannot cancel and then un-cancel flights, so they need every puzzle piece to fall into place before the schedule returns to normalcy.Delta CEO Ed Bastian said on CNBC on Wednesday that he thinks flights will return to normal by the weekend. Southwest said in its statement, “We’re optimistic that the FAA will allow airlines to resume normal operations within a few days.”Fortunately, fears of an especially messy Thanksgiving travel week — when 31 million Americans are set to fly — have been thwarted, as airlines are ready to go more quickly than previously thought.Even when flights are operating at 100% again, however, the issue of understaffing at air traffic control locations nationwide remains.The industry still needs more than 3,000 air traffic controllers to fill staffing gaps and ensure that employees — many of whom were already working six-day workweeks before the government shutdown — can return to business as usual.“When the government is funded again nothing will change at BNA,” said Garld Graves, a retired air traffic controller with 28 years of experience, referring to Nashville International Airport“What the agency has been doing because of the shutdown — cutting flights, approving staffing triggers — is something that should have been happening all along at places that are short staffed,” he told NBC News.He said he hopes that the FAA and Duffy “will continue to argue, fuss and fight, like they have promised during the shutdown, to create better opportunities to improve staffing levels and give controllers what they deserve.”Airlines for America, the trade association representing major U.S. airlines, echoed Graves’ wishes and called on Congress to “ensure future funding bills do not allow aviation to become collateral damage in Washington’s policy debates.”“The FAA’s Airport and Airway Trust Fund currently has $5 billion that could be used to pay air traffic controllers during future shutdowns,” the organization said in a statement. “We ask Congress to consider legislation that would implement a long-term solution.”Rebecca CohenRebecca Cohen is a breaking news reporter for NBC News Digital.Jay BlackmanJay Blackman is an NBC News producer covering such areas as transportation, space, medical and consumer issues.
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Oct. 19, 2025, 6:05 AM EDTBy Andrew GreifThe Philadelphia Eagles earned the NFL’s ultimate prize last season, winning the franchise’s second Super Bowl. Yet they weren’t alone among the league’s big winners. Other than the Eagles, no team may have left last season happier than a division rival, Washington. It was an unexpected result. For most of this century, the franchise had produced more investigations at the congressional, federal and state levels than on-field joy. Under owner Daniel Snyder, the team won fewer than half of its games. The team had been rebranded (2020 and 2022) more recently than it had won a playoff game (2005). Attendance fell to the worst in the league in 2022, the final season before Snyder announced he would sell the team. Yet last season, under new ownership, a new coach and rookie-of-the-year quarterback Jayden Daniels, Washington won 12 games and advanced to a conference title game, the first time in 33 seasons either had occurred. With one of the league’s best quarterbacks on a cost-controlled rookie contract, Washington had enormous flexibility to spend to build around Daniels and be “elite over the long term,” owner Josh Harris said after last season. Bookmakers gave only six teams better odds to make the Super Bowl than Washington.”We have a massive opportunity,” Harris said.That opportunity to go from one of the league’s biggest surprises to sustained success has been tested ever since. At 3-3, the Commanders have struggled to build on last season’s breakout success.Last season, their surge began in October after Daniels completed a Hail Mary touchdown to beat the Chicago Bears. It remains to be seen how much one play from their rematch against Chicago last week could dictate the rest of this season.Holding the ball while leading 24-22 with three minutes left in regulation Daniels, playing in wet weather, couldn’t grip a snap and fumbled a handoff attempt that Chicago recovered. The Bears used the turnover to eventually kick a game-winning field goal.”Completely my fault,” Daniels said after the game.The team’s overall struggles aren’t; several of Daniels’ metrics are up in his second season, and Sunday he has a chance to become the first Washington player ever to throw 10 or more passing touchdowns with one or no interceptions through five games (he has thrown seven touchdowns and one pick). But Daniels has been hurt, missing two games, and injuries have also sidelined some of his top targets, including Terry McLaurin and Noah Brown. Still, the Commanders rank in the top 10 in yards per play, and they often their drives turn into scores. Washington’s defense also has been a mixed bag. It has forced just three turnovers, third fewest in the league, and opponents’ possessions end in turnovers about half as often as last season. They have been on the field for 389 defensive snaps, ninth most, yet rank among the league’s better half in points allowed.Washington Commanders head coach Dan Quinn in Landover on Oct. 13.Scott Taetsch / Getty ImagesWashington has also shown a penchant for falling behind by double digits, doing it in four of their six games, with coach Dan Quinn saying after the loss to the Bears that “we’ve become way too accustomed to digging ourselves out of holes. “All three phases dug the hole, and all three phases helped get out, but we didn’t create enough takeaways. To finish minus-three [against the Bears], you really don’t deserve to win many games in that space.”The next month will be a litmus test for the team’s postseason viability. Sunday, Washington faces the Dallas Cowboys, whose 2-3-1 record doesn’t quite reveal the challenge they could pose. Then there is a Week 8 matchup against a Kansas City Chiefs team that suddenly looks dangerous again and consecutive matchups in Weeks 9 and 10 against two of the NFC’s toughest teams in the Detroit Lions and the Seattle Seahawks. The season closes with four consecutive division games against the New York Giants, Dallas and Philadelphia (twice). One analysis ranks Washington’s remaining schedule as the 15th most difficult in the 32-team league. But as last week’s fumbled handoff showed, nothing in the NFL comes easy.What we’re watching for in Week 7Rams (4-2) at Jaguars (4-2): Something’s got to give during an early start in London. Jacksonville’s 10 interceptions lead the NFL, while Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford has thrown only two picks on 209 attempts but has five fumbles. Saints (1-5) at Bears (3-2): Chicago quarterback Caleb Williams would be expected to complete 71.5% of his passes this season, according to the NFL’s Next Gen Stats — which measures factors such as receiver location and a quarterback’s distance from the nearest tackler. Yet Williams has completed only 61.6%, and that 9.9-point gap is the largest completion percentage under expectations in the league. Dolphins (1-5) at Browns (1-5): No defense has allowed opponents to score more than Miami’s, which is allowing points on a league-worst 60% of possessions. Patriots (4-2) at Titans (1-5): In their first game since they fired their coach, the Titans need to try to protect No. 1 pick Cam Ward better. He has been sacked a league-high 25 times, six more than anyone else.Raiders (2-4) at Chiefs (3-3): Kansas City has yet to commit a fumble this season, and it has a league-low two total turnovers in six games. The Raiders have fumbled just once. On the other hand, they’ve thrown a league-high 10 picks. Eagles (4-2) at Vikings (3-2): Saquon Barkley ran behind the NFL’s best offensive line last season, averaging 3.8 yards per carry before being hit. This year, that average has been halved, an indication of injuries to the line and predictability that defenses have figured out. Panthers (3-3) at Jets (0-6): Though Ward has been sacked the most overall (25 times), New York’s Justin Fields has been sacked on a higher percentage of his drop backs, a whopping 13%. The last team to start 0-7 was the 2021 Lions.Giants (2-4) at Broncos (4-2): New York’s Jaxson Dart can become the first rookie quarterback since 1950 to beat three .500 or better teams in his first four starts. Denver’s Nik Bonitto leads the NFL with eight sacks, while the Giants’ Brian Burns ranks third with 7½. Colts (5-1) at Chargers (4-2): The NFL’s top rusher, Jonathan Taylor (603 yards), faces a Chargers defense that struggles to contain the run, allowing 5.0 yards per carry, fifth worst in the league.Commanders (3-3) at Cowboys (2-3-1): Cowboys receiver CeeDee Lamb could return after having missed three games with an ankle sprain. Dallas is 6-0 against Washington at home when quarterback Dak Prescott starts.Packers (3-1) at Cardinals (2-4): Arizona has lost four straight games by four points or less. Meanwhile the Packers are looking for their first 5-1 start since 2021. Falcons (3-2) at 49ers (4-2): Even without starting quarterback Brock Purdy for much of the season, San Francisco averages a league-high 291.5 passing yards. Atlanta’s Michael Penix Jr. averaged 201 yards and threw for one touchdown combined in his first three games this season, but in two games since then, he has thrown three touchdowns, while averaging 281 yards.Buccaneers (5-1) at Lions (4-2) on Monday: Tampa Bay’s Baker Mayfield is building an MVP campaign with 12 passing touchdowns and just one interception. Texans (2-3) at Seahawks (4-2) on Monday: Love defense? This game’s for you. Houston leads the NFL in points allowed (just 12.2 per game), while Seattle ranks sixth (19.5). Houston has allowed only three passing touchdowns in five games. Andrew GreifAndrew Greif is a sports reporter for NBC News Digital. 
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Sept. 23, 2025, 6:31 AM EDT / Updated Sept. 23, 2025, 7:07 AM EDTBy Freddie ClaytonMysterious drones that forced the closure of a major European airport were part of a “serious attack,” officials said Tuesday, hours after the latest unsettling incident over the continent’s skies.As U.S. allies weigh a tougher response to suspected Russian incursions, NATO leaders gathered at the United Nations General Assembly in New York condemned the Kremlin for a spate of “escalatory” incidents in recent weeks and vowed to defend itself.Authorities did not immediately assign blame for the two to three large drones that shut Copenhagen Airport — Scandinavia’s largest — Monday night. But police said a hybrid attack could not be ruled out, and Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen called it “the most serious attack on Danish critical infrastructure to date.”Norway’s Oslo airport also reopened Tuesday morning following four hours of airspace closure after a separate drone incident took place the same evening, police told Norwegian broadcaster NRK.Trump: Putin has ‘really let me down’ on Ukraine peace talks01:05“I cannot rule out that it is Russia,” Frederiksen, the Danish leader, told reporters. “We have seen drones over Poland that should not have been there. We have seen activity in Romania. We have seen violations of Estonian airspace,” she added, referring to a series of incidents in eastern Europe during September that have been blamed on Russia. “Russia should be in no doubt,” NATO said in a statement just hours after the latest incidents. “Allies will use all necessary military and non-military tools to defend ourselves and deter all threats from all directions.”A Russian MiG-31 fighter jet that took part in the violation of Estonian airspace.Swedish Armed Forces / via ReutersThe Kremlin dismissed what it said were “unfounded accusations” leveled each time there is an incident. It’s got to the point where such statements were “no longer taken into account,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters.The drones that shut Copenhagen airport appeared to be flown by a “capable operator,” Danish police Chief Superintendent Jens Jespersen told reporters on Tuesday.“It’s an actor who has the capabilities, the will and the tools to show off in this way,” he said, adding that no suspects had been identified and that it was too soon to tell if the events in Denmark and Norway were linked.Officials chose not to shoot down the drones because the risk was too great because of the airport being full of passengers, the planes on the runways and nearby fuel depots, Jes Jespersen, senior police inspector of the Copenhagen Police, said during a news conference.Passengers queue for new tickets at Copenhagen Airport on Tuesday morning.Sergei Gapon / AFP via Getty ImagesWestern leaders have increasingly vowed a more aggressive defense against what they say is a carefully escalating Kremlin campaign to probe NATO’s defenses and test its resolve. NATO is set to meet Tuesday discuss Russia’s violation of Estonian airspace, after Estonia requested consultations consultations under Article 4 last week — a mechanism that prompts urgent talks among alliesPoland “is ready to react toughly against all airspace violations,” its prime minister Donald Tusk said Tuesday on X. “In such a situation I’m counting on univocal and full support from our allies.”Britain also promised Monday to “confront planes operating in space without permission,” as Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper warned that Russia’s incursions risked triggering an armed conflict.The European Union is also weighing how to create a “drone wall” along its eastern border, Lithuanian foreign minister Kestutis Budrys told Reuters news agency on Monday.Washington’s new envoy to the United Nations, Michael Waltz, vowed Monday to “defend every inch of NATO territory” as he addressed an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting over the incursion into Estonia.NATO has already launched Operation “Eastern Sentry” earlier this month to bolster defenses along Europe’s eastern flank.A French Air Force pilot prepares for takeoff, prior to a joint mission with Polish F16s, as part of Operation “Eastern Sentry.”Thibaud Moritz / AFP via Getty ImagesMeanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy landed in New York Monday for what he said would be an “intense week” of diplomacy, as he tries to drum up support for new efforts to punish the Kremlin and turn rhetoric into action.“We are doing everything to stop the war,” he wrote on X Tuesday, adding that he had two dozen meetings scheduled.Freddie ClaytonFreddie Clayton is a freelance journalist based in London. 
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