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From the New York Times, it's the headlines.
Today's Monday, March 23rd.
Here's what we're covering.
At approximately 1140 last night,
Air Canada flight 8646,
collided with the Port Authority aircraft rescue and firefighting vehicle
Just before midnight at New York City's LaGuardia Airport,
an air Canada flight from Montreal collided with a fire truck.
Video from the aftermath shows the regional jet
tipped onto its tail.
Its nose sheared off and mangled wreckage hanging down onto the ground.
At times, journalists there said that nearby,
a damaged truck was lying on its side,
as emergency workers responded to the scene.
Sadly, the two pilots are confirmed deceased.
And notifications are being made by Air Canada's care team at this time.
The crash happened as the plane was landing,
and the fire truck was out responding to a separate issue,
according to the head of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey,
which oversees the airport.
She said dozens of passengers on the plane had been taken to the hospital,
along with the two first responders who had been in the truck.
She said many people had been released already,
but that some were seriously injured.
In response to the crash,
officials said no flights would go in or out of La Guardia
until at least 2 p.m. Eastern,
shuddering a critical regional hub
that sees nearly 900 flights each day.
You can find more live coverage on this incident
and flight disruptions at nytimes.com.
Now, three updates on the war in the Middle East.
After President Trump issued an ultimatum to Iran over the weekend,
saying he'd strike the country's power grid
if the Strait of Hormuz wasn't opened by tonight.
He has now extended his deadline.
In a social media post this morning,
the President said he'd push back the threat by another five days
because the U.S. and Iran had held, quote,
very good and productive conversations
regarding a complete and total resolution
of our hostilities in the Middle East.
It wasn't clear who was involved in those talks,
and Iran did not immediately issue a statement of its own.
Also, this weekend in Israel,
two Iranian ballistic missiles landed in residential neighborhoods,
getting around Israel's vaunted air defense systems.
About 175 people were wounded,
according to emergency and health services.
The failure of the defenses has rattled people there,
and renewed concerns that the Israeli military might be holding back
some of its more advanced weaponry
after drawing down its stockpiles during the 12-day war
with Iran last year.
The Israeli military has denied reports
that it's running low on missile interceptors
and said that it's investigating what went wrong
with the strikes that got through this weekend.
And last update on the war, in southern Lebanon,
the Israeli military is destroying more homes and bridges,
saying it's necessary to thwart threats from his bullet,
the Iran-backed armed group.
Israel's defense minister said on Sunday
that his troops would use similar methods
to what they did in Gaza,
where huge parts of the territory were raised to the ground
in the fight against Hamas.
Israel's been carrying out a major military campaign in Lebanon
since his bullet-fired rockets and drones in solidarity with Iran.
More than a million people have already fled their homes
and over a thousand have been killed,
according to the Lebanese government.
Many Lebanese fear that the intensified Israeli assault
could lead to a long-term occupation
of the southern part of their country.
We're talking about security options
and these officers are well trained in security
and they're well trained in identification.
Starting this morning, federal officials say
that ICE agents will be deployed at airports around the country
to try and help wrangle the security lines
that have been stretching for hours and hours
due to the ongoing DHS shutdown.
We're simply there to help TSA do their job in areas
that don't need their specialized expertise such as...
White House borders our Tom Homan said
ICE agents would mostly be doing things like monitoring exits
so that TSA agents can focus on screening passengers.
Many airports have had widespread staffing shortages,
a consequence of Congress deadlocking over funding
for the Department of Homeland Security.
And that's left many agents going without pay
they've then been calling in sick or having to take other jobs.
For many passengers, that's meant showing up to the airport
only to find security lines snaking through entire concourses
even out onto the curb or into parking garages.
President Trump first raised the idea of sending ICE
into airports on Saturday in a social media post,
presenting it as a threat if Democrats didn't cooperate
The plan has been blasted by some Democrats
who've accused Trump of using immigration agents
to intimidate travelers.
And one TSA officer, who's also a union official
representing agents, said that the deployment of ICE officers
at airports would be a quote,
distracting scenario to say the least.
In Mexico, guns from the U.S. have been pouring into the country
for years, a phenomenon that's earned the nickname
By one estimate, 80% of weapons seized by Mexican authorities
Now, in the past year, that river has turned into a flood.
I've spent months speaking to
I'm smuggler as based both in the U.S.
and in Mexico, and that's how I discovered
that an unprecedented number of weapons are actually
coming into Mexico and that these cartels,
particularly seen in the Loa Cartel,
is having themselves to the teeth.
Paulina Villegas, a reporter for the Times
based in Mexico City, says that over the past year or so,
demand for high-powered arms like machine guns
and assault rifles has exploded.
In part, the groups are buying up weapons
to confront Mexican authorities who are being encouraged
by President Trump to go after the drug smugglers more aggressively.
And the cartels are preparing for a potential U.S.
military intervention, which Trump has threatened.
Paulina interviewed more than a half dozen cartel operatives
directly involved in buying and delivering some of the hundreds of
thousands of weapons that are smuggled into Mexico every year.
She says that as demand has skyrocketed,
their tactics have evolved.
Historically, cartels have hired American citizens or residents
and send them into a gun store or a gun show
and buy as many weapons as they can,
including high caliber firearms.
But more recently, we've also discovered
that smokers have relied on other methods.
For instance, they are going directly
to gun store employees or managers.
They're driving them to falsify records.
They're used records of other prior purchasers
to supply the weapons for them.
Once the weapons are collected,
they are often disassembled to make the concealment
easier, and the smugglers hide the gun parts
in hidden compartments inside of trucks and vehicles.
They also put them in fast boats.
And sometimes for a smaller cargoes,
they told me that they even dropped some of the gun parts
onto their own bodies and just walk across the border into Mexico.
One of the most striking details of this reporting
was how heavily the cartone members rely
on what they say are bribes to not only Mexican,
These are border officials that they say they offer
large amounts of money for them to guarantee
the safe pass of the vehicles carrying the weapons
to the final destination.
In response to questions from the Times,
U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in a statement
that its officers, quote,
enforce our nation's laws
along what is now the most secure border in history.
meteors have arced through the sky
in at least two parts of the U.S,
causing rumbling sonic booms and fiery streaks of light.
I came in here to look and I see the hole in the ceiling
a big day in the floor.
Another north of Houston,
Sherry James told KHO TV that a chunk of space rock
came crashing through the roof of her house on Saturday.
And in Ohio, a seven-ton fireball exploded
over the Cleveland area.
That meteors set off a race among a small
but motivated group in the U.S.
Some two dozen people poured over radar data,
booked one-way flights,
and packed their bags,
along with, in some cases,
Space rocks can be a big business.
A massive specimen found in Niger last year
fetched over five million dollars at auction.
The Times met up with some meteorite hunters in Ohio
who didn't find anything that big.
But even a chunk of the size of a gumball
can be worth hundreds or thousands of dollars.
It's somewhat polarizing because there's a competing belief
that space rocks should be collected for science,
But the money is there.
One of the guys who scooped up a piece in Ohio
said he quit his job a few years ago
after he made $40,000 in one weekend
hunting meteorites.
Those are the headlines.
Today on the daily,
inside the divide on the American right
over Trump's decision to go to war in Iran.
You can listen to that in the New York Times app
or wherever you get your podcasts.
We'll be back tomorrow.
