Day: January 30, 2025

NTSB gives update on deadly D.C. midair plane crash

The National Transportation Safety Board gave an update on Wednesday night's deadly midair collision between an American Airlines plane and an Army Black Hawk helicopter. Officials said early Thursday they believe there are no survivors among the 64 passengers and crew on the plane and the three soldiers on the Army helicopter after they collided over the Potomac River in Washington, D.C.

Donald Trump full press conference on DC plane crash with Army helicopter near Reagan Airport

President Donald Trump announced there were no survivors after an American Airlines plane carrying 64 people collided with a military helicopter carrying three people near Reagan Washington National Airport and fell into the frigid Potomac River.

President Trump signs executive orders on aviation safety

D.C plane crash update: 28 bodies recovered, officials say they expect no survivors

First responders have recovered the bodies of 27 passengers from the American Airlines jet and one from the helicopter. The body of the plane was found upside down in three sections in waist-deep water. The wreckage of the helicopter was also found. Officials said they were still searching for other casualties but did not believe there were any other survivors, which would make it the deadliest U.S. air crash in nearly 24 years.

UPDATE: Washington DC Midair Collision AA 3542 & Helicopter

Video, Radar and Audio of the Midair. Latest Updates as of January 30, 7am Central. Dan, talk about what we know about the crash of AA 3542 and PAT 21, a military Blackhawk on a training mission. The crash occurred while the CRJ 700 was on short final to runway 33 at DCA, Washington Reagan.

President Trump addresses DC plane collision 

 

Trump Announces Preparations To Move 30,000 Illegal Aliens To Guantanamo Bay: ‘The Worst Of The Worst’

PALM BEACH, FLORIDA - DECEMBER 16: U.S. President-elect Donald Trump speaks at a news conference at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort on December 16, 2024 in Palm Beach, Florida. In a news conference that went over an hour, Trump announced that SoftBank will invest over $100 billion in projects in the United States including 100,000 artificial intelligence related jobs and then took questions on Syria, Israel, Ukraine, the economy, cabinet picks, and many other topics. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump speaks at a news conference at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort on December 16, 2024 in Palm Beach, Florida. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

OAN Staff Blake Wolf
5:48 PM – Wednesday, January 29, 2025

President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that his administration is preparing to send 30,000 of the most violent and dangerous illegal aliens to Guantanamo Bay.

Guantanamo Bay, also known as GITMO, is a U.S. military prison within Naval Station Guantanamo Bay on the coast of Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

“Today I’m also signing an executive order to instruct the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security to begin preparing the 30,000-person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay,” Trump stated. “Most people don’t even know about it.”

“Some of them are so bad, we don’t even trust their countries to hold them because we don’t want them coming back,” Trump continued. “We’re going to send them to Guantanamo.”

Trump’s latest initiative to crackdown on illegal immigration has resulted in U.S. law enforcement officials removing and returning at least 7,300 illegal aliens since Trump took office, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

“Most people don’t even know that we have 30,000 beds in Guantanamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people,” Trump highlighted. “This will double our capacity immediately… It’s a tough place to get out of.”

Trump’s order requires the DHS and the Defense Department to take “all appropriate actions to expand” the facilities “to full capacity to provide additional detention space for high-priority criminal aliens unlawfully present in the United States.”

At Gitmo, the U.S. had previously housed hundreds of individuals suspected of terrorism following the September 11th, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center. However, only 15 current terrorist suspects remain today.

Additionally, President Trump’s appointed border czar, Tom Homan, added that “there’s already a migrant center” at the Cuban outpost that’s “been there for decades.”

“So we’re just going to expand upon that existing migrant center,” Homan continued, revealing that those sent to Cuba will be “the worst of the worst.”

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth noted that the facility is going to be used for “temporary transit” — processing and returning individuals to their countries in a safe manner.

Meanwhile, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel slammed the decision, referring to the outpost as “well-known prisons of torture and illegal detention.”

English Translation: “In an act of brutality, the new US government announces the imprisonment at the Guantanamo Naval Base, located in illegally occupied territory #Cuba , of thousands of migrants that it forcibly expels, and will place them next to the well-known prisons of torture and illegal detention,” Díaz-Canel wrote in an X post.

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Trump Admin. To Revoke Student Visas For Anti-Israel ‘Hamas Sympathizers’

BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 22: Pro-Palestinian protesters set up a tent encampment during a demonstration in front of Sproul Hall on the UC Berkeley campus on April 22, 2024 in Berkeley, California. Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters staged a demonstration in front of Sproul Hall on the UC Berkeley campus where they set up a tent encampment in solidarity with protesters at Columbia University who are demanding a permanent cease fire in war between Israel and Gaza. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Pro-Palestinian protesters set up a tent encampment during a demonstration in front of Sproul Hall on the UC Berkeley campus on April 22, 2024 in Berkeley, California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

OAN Staff James Meyers
1:59 PM – Wednesday, January 29, 2025

President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Wednesday to deport foreign students who take part in anti-Israel and pro-Hamas protests on U.S. college campuses, as his crackdown on anti-Semitism across the nation commences.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will also become the first foreign leader to make a visit to the White House under the new Trump administration.

The new executive order will target “resident aliens, including students with visas,” who broke laws during protests following the October 7th, 2023 attacks on Israel — which were committed by the Islamist terrorist group Hamas.

A fact sheet describing the plans states that Trump will order the Justice Department to “aggressively prosecute terroristic threats, arson, vandalism, and violence against American Jews.”

“To all the resident aliens who joined in the pro-jihadist protests, we put you on notice: come 2025, we will find you, and we will deport you,” Trump says in the fact sheet. “I will also quickly cancel the student visas of all Hamas sympathizers on college campuses, which have been infested with radicalism like never before.”

This comes after many American universities, including Columbia University in New York, became the site of numerous anti-Israel protests last year — as the Israel-Hamas war raged on.

Many Jewish students have reported feeling uncomfortable and that they are being harassed by pro-Palestine protesters while walking on campus, all the while spending a large sum of money in order to get a higher education at a prestigious school. In fact, some Jewish students even feared that they may be assaulted during the contentious time.

At the time, pro-Palestine students involved in the protests had made outrageous demands of their school board and school president — like that their university sever financial ties with Jewish and pro-Israel donors, while demanding that the U.S. end its ally support of Israel.

Now, Trump’s newest order gives leaders of U.S. government agencies and departments a maximum of 60 days to provide the White House with recommendations on how to identify anti-Semitic threats.

Meanwhile, the U.S. is currently pushing Israel and Hamas to keep their ceasefire in place. Netanyahu expressed confidence in Trump to help the process go more smoothly and quickly. Now, the more difficult second phase is reportedly set to begin next Monday.

“On behalf of the people of Israel, I also want to thank you [Trump] for your efforts in helping free Israeli hostages,” the Israeli PM stated earlier this month. “I look forward to working with you to return the remaining hostages, to destroy Hamas’ military capabilities and to end its political rule in Gaza.”

The president signed an executive order last week calling for the removal of foreign visa holders who “advocate for, aid or support designated foreign terrorists and other threats to our national security.”

During a rally in New Jersey last year, Trump promised: “When I am President, we will not allow our colleges to be taken over by violent radicals. And if you come here from another country and try to bring jihadism or anti-Americanism or anti-Semitism to our campuses, we will immediately deport you.”

Since the ceasefire announcement between the two sides involved in the ongoing war efforts, college protests have reportedly “calmed down.”

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Defense Secretary Hegseth Revokes Gen. Milley’s Security Clearance And Protection

RAMSTEIN-MIESENBACH, GERMANY - SEPTEMBER 08: General Mark Milley attends a press conference after a meeting of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group at the U.S. military's Ramstein air base on September 08, 2022 in Ramstein-Miesenbach, Germany. The Ukraine Defence Contact Group is a U.S.-led effort to bring together defense leaders from dozens of countries across the globe in order to facilitate military support for Ukraine in its ongoing efforts in fighting Russia's military invasion. (Photo by Thomas Niedermueller/Getty Images)
General Mark Milley attends a press conference after a meeting of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group at the U.S. military’s Ramstein air base on September 08, 2022 in Ramstein-Miesenbach, Germany. (Photo by Thomas Niedermueller/Getty Images)

OAN Staff James Meyers
2:58 PM – Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is pulling the security protections and clearance of retired Joint Chiefs chairman General Mark Milley.

The new defense secretary is also tasking the new acting Inspector General to conduct a review board to determine if enough evidence exists for Gen. Milley to be stripped of a star in retirement based on his actions to “undermine the chain of command” during President Donald Trump’s first term, officials say.

The inspector general review will include “an inquiry into the facts and circumstances surrounding Gen. Milley’s conduct so that the Secretary may determine whether it is appropriate to reopen his military grade review determination,” Pentagon spokesman John Ullyot said.

“The secretary informed Gen. Milley today that he is revoking the authorization for his security detail and suspending his security clearance as well,” he said.

Milley is known for serving as chairman during President Donald Trump’s first term in office. The relationship started out strong. However, it worsened over time as Milley tried to advise Trump on multiple issues. 

He’s known for pushing back on the president’s interest in using force domestically to stop protestors after the death of George Floyd, and was at the center of a controversy in 2021 when he made independent calls to his Chinese counterpart. At the time, Trump said the calls were an act of treason, but Milley claimed the calls were routine and part of his responsibilities. 

During his final days as chairman, after Trump had left office, he was outspoken about his former boss. He said at his official retirement ceremony “we don’t take an oath to a king or a queen or to a tyrant or a dictator. We don’t take an oath to a wannabe dictator.”

“We don’t take an oath to an individual. We take an oath to the Constitution, and we take an oath to the idea that is America, and we’re willing to die to protect it,” he said at the time.

According to Hegseth’s chief of staff, Joe Kasper, the decision to strip Milley of his clearance and details was taken because “undermining the chain of command is corrosive to our national security, and restoring accountability is a priority for the Defense Department under President Trump’s leadership.”

Additional moves might include getting rid of Milley’s Army chief of staff portrait. Milley’s chairman portrait was stripped from the wall just hours after Trump was sworn in. 

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