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Flights have resumed at New York's LaGuardia Airport following Sunday night's deadly runway collision involving an Air Canada regional jet and a fire truck.
Two pilots aboard the Jazz aviation flight were killed when the jet slammed into the truck while landing at LaGuardia on a flight from Montreal.
At the time, the fire truck was responding to a call about an odor on a United jet at the airport.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says the National Transportation Safety Board is investigating along with investigators from Canada.
There were 76 people aboard the plane.
Several passengers were seriously injured.
A flight attendant was thrown from the plane still strapped in her seat and survived without serious injuries.
President Trump's choice to lead the Department of Homeland Security has been approved by the Senate.
Former Republican Senator Mark Wayne Mullen of Oklahoma was confirmed in a 54-45 vote, mostly along party lines.
Mullen replaces former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, who was fired by Trump.
President Trump was in Tennessee yesterday, where he touted his administration's efforts to lower crime in Memphis.
It's one of the cities where Trump deployed members of the National Guard, as NPR's Deepa Shivaram reports.
This is NPR News from Washington.
Authorities in Washington, D.C.
are describing yesterday's shooting of a U.S.
Park Police officer as an ambush by two men.