Joel Rose

But a source on Capitol Hill who has spoken to the FAA and was not authorized to speak publicly says it was the Defense Department that deployed counter-drone technology before the FAA had completed its safety assessment.

The mayor of El Paso says the result was chaos on the ground.

Joel Rose, NPR News, Washington.

Amtrak's Aero trains will make their debut in the Pacific Northwest later this year.

But the railroad gave a preview at Union Station in Washington, D.C.

Railroad President Roger Harris says these trains will modernize much of Amtrak's aging fleet in the Northeast, too.

It really is a complete renewal of the customer experience in the Northeast on Amtrak, and that's what's really so exciting.

Amtrak launched its newest next-gen high-speed Acela service last year.

By comparison, these trains are workhorses.

They top out at 125 miles per hour and will rarely go even that fast because of track conditions.

Joel Rose, NPR News, Washington.

The National Transportation Safety Board will meet nearly a year after the mid-air collision that killed 67 people.

It was the deadliest aviation disaster in the U.S.

in more than two decades.

The NTSB is not likely to identify a single cause.

Instead, investigators will lay out all the things that went wrong in the lead-up to the crash, and the board will recommend changes to help prevent a similar tragedy from happening again.

Already, the Federal Aviation Administration has taken the temporary restrictions it imposed after the crash and made them permanent.

to ensure planes and helicopters don't once again share the same airspace around Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

Joel Rose, NPR News, Washington.

Airline operations were battered by the weekend storm that dumped heavy snow and ice across more than a dozen states.