Laura Wagner
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Automated systems sent data showing smoke in a bathroom, according to an aviation publication. Earlier, authorities reported finding debris including human remains from the plane.
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No punitive action will be taken against the cadets after the inquiry found that the gesture was intended to demonstrate "unity" and "pride," a statement from the institution said.
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After days of criticism, the Smithsonian says the National Museum of African American History and Culture will make reference to the assault accusations against the comedian.
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Malaysia's transport minister said he "urged everyone to avoid undue speculation" that the piece of debris came from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
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The president said there is plenty of time for him to nominate a candidate to succeed Antonin Scalia and for the Senate to consider the nomination. He says the Constitution is clear that is his job.
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Rescue efforts continue in the city of Tainan, where a magnitude 6.4 quake struck early Saturday. News services report two of the dead are a baby and an adult man. Some 120,000 are without power.
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Following criticism of the lack of diversity in this year's Oscar nominations, the academy has voted to approve changes aimed at doubling the number of women and people of color by 2020.
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U.S. health officials have warned pregnant women against traveling to Latin American and Caribbean countries with outbreaks of the tropical illness which may be causing microcephaly in newborns.
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Irvin, who died Monday at 96, was one of the first black players in Major League Baseball. He showed Mays the ropes when Mays entered the league. Irvin, Mays said, was "sort of like my father."
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In what may be the only recording of his voice, James Naismith describes how he created basketball to occupy his stir-crazy students during a snowy winter in New England.