A cargo plane from Puerto Rico overran a runway at Miami International Airport Sunday afternoon, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
“21 Air Flight 7598 overran the runway after landing at Miami International Airport around 2 p.m. local time on Sunday, Sept. 6. The Boeing 767-300 cargo aircraft departed from Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico,” the FAA statement said.
Air traffic control recordings from LiveATC.com state that the aircraft ran off the end of the runway and may have also struck a vehicle on a perimeter road.
“At approximately 2 p.m. today, Prime Air flight 7598 overran Miami International Airport’s diagonal runway and is disabled at the northwest end of the airport,” according to a statement issued by Miami International Airport.
“All runways and taxiways at MIA are currently closed as of 3:00 p.m. and a ground stop is in effect. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue (MDFR) has responded,” the airport statement further said.
“Over 60 Miami-Dade Fire Rescue units are on scene of an incident involving a plane that overran a runway and struck multiple vehicles near Miami International Airport,” according to a post on X from Miami-Dade Fire Rescue. “Units arrived to find an airplane that had caught on fire as a result of this crash, with heavy flames and smoke showing. Firefighters are working on extinguishing the fire and assessing patients.”
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A cargo plane from Puerto Rico overran a runway at Miami International Airport Sunday afternoon, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
“21 Air Flight 7598 overran the runway after landing at Miami International Airport around 2 p.m. local time on Sunday, Sept. 6. The Boeing 767-300 cargo aircraft departed from Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico,” the FAA statement said.
Air traffic control recordings from LiveATC.com state that the aircraft ran off the end of the runway and may have also struck a vehicle on a perimeter road.
“At approximately 2 p.m. today, Prime Air flight 7598 overran Miami International Airport’s diagonal runway and is disabled at the northwest end of the airport,” according to a statement issued by Miami International Airport.
“All runways and taxiways at MIA are currently closed as of 3:00 p.m. and a ground stop is in effect. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue (MDFR) has responded,” the airport statement further said.
“Over 60 Miami-Dade Fire Rescue units are on scene of an incident involving a plane that overran a runway and struck multiple vehicles near Miami International Airport,” according to a post on X from Miami-Dade Fire Rescue. “Units arrived to find an airplane that had caught on fire as a result of this crash, with heavy flames and smoke showing. Firefighters are working on extinguishing the fire and assessing patients.”
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
Miami — Five people are dead and five people are injured after an Amazon Air cargo plane from Puerto Rico overran a runway at Miami International Airport, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said in a news conference Sunday evening.
The names of the deceased and the injured have not been released.
The National Transportation Safety Board said Sunday it is sending a team, led by NTSB Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy, to investigate the incident, which took place Sunday afternoon.
Both the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and Amazon confirmed the incident in separate statements.
“21 Air Flight 7598 overran the runway after landing at Miami International Airport around 2 p.m. local time on Sunday, Sept. 6. The Boeing 767-300 cargo aircraft departed from Luis Munoz Marin International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico,” the FAA statement said.
“We can confirm that an Amazon Air plane operated by 21 Air experienced an incident while attempting to land at Miami International Airport today,” Kelly Nantel, a spokesperson for Amazon, said in a statement, adding that it was a “fast-moving situation” and that Amazon was “working closely with local authorities and officials to understand exactly what happened.”
“Right now, our absolute priority is the safety, well-being, and care of everyone involved. We’re doing everything we can to support those affected,” the statement added.
Preliminary data from Flightradar24 shows the plane was going approximately 128 mph as it went off the runway.
A ground stop at Miami International Airport was lifted around three hours after the incident, with two of the four runways now reopened, according to officials.
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
The Trump administration on Sunday filed another emergency appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to immediately implement new U.S. Postal Service mail ballot rules for November.
The application is not meaningfully different from the request the administration filed on Sept. 3, but comes in response to the federal judge handling the legal battle over new U.S. Postal Service mail ballot rules extending her block of the rules for the November midterm elections in an order issued on Friday, again finding them likely unlawful.
Judge Indira Talwani’s temporary order, which had been set to expire on Sept. 10, is now in place indefinitely unless the a higher court allows the Trump administration to put the rules into effect.
The judge found that immediate implementation of the rules this close to the November election, prompted by President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at tightening access to mail ballots, “threatens disenfranchisement of millions of United States citizens who seek to vote by mail.”
Talwani concluded that the rules, which mandate nationwide mail ballot design and review requirements and state submission of a voter information database to USPS, are “unconstitutional where it intrudes not only on Congress’s Elections Clause powers but also that power left to the States.”
The decision ups the ante for the U.S. Supreme Court, which had already been asked to weigh in on Talwani’s preliminary injunction. A decision is expected as soon as the coming week.
Time is of the essence since some states have already begun mailing ballots for the fall election.
Trump, who has pushed unfounded claims of widespread mail ballot fraud, wants states to report to USPS basic voter information, such as a voter’s name and home address, attached to a unique barcode on every mail-in ballot distributed. Postal workers would then only deliver ballots addressed to voters who appear on the state-provided list.
Following the publication of the regulations last month, dozens of Democratic state attorneys general sued the Trump administration after an earlier lawsuit was blocked by the Supreme Court, which said at the time that the challenge was premature since the regulations hadn’t been finalized.
Judge Talwani wrote in her opinion Friday that the dispute was now ripe for judicial intervention.
“Nothing is hypothetical,” she said of the alleged harm to states, voters and voter advocacy groups ahead of the November election.
In its latest appeal to the justices, the Trump administration insisted the rules impose only “modest” ballot design and review requirements on states and that a requirement to submit name, address, and barcode information of intended recipients is not onerous or intrusive.
The states challenging the USPS rule have until Tuesday at 10 a.m. to formally respond before the Supreme Court makes a decision.
The states and voter advocacy groups have argued that the new USPS regulations are an attempt by the Trump administration to federalize elections, which are historically and constitutionally managed by each state, and make it harder to vote by mail for everyday citizens.
LONDON — President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff hailed what he described as “very meaningful discussions” regarding the Ukraine-Russia war, saying the talks in Kyiv Sunday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy were “substantive [and] important.”
Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, arrived in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on Sunday in a renewed White House push for progress on ending Russia’s full-scale invasion of its neighbor, now in its fifth year.
“President Trump asked us to convey his personal regards to you and to the people of Ukraine,” Kushner told Zelenskyy in comments before reporters, adding that Trump “wanted us to convey that he sees this as a very, very hard and complex problem, but it’s a very worthy problem worth solving.”
He added that Trump was committed not only to ending the conflict, but also to securing a lasting peace that would enable Ukraine “to build itself into the great nation that they [Ukraine] have the fullest potential to achieve.”
Zelenskyy thanked the United States for its continued support and expressed gratitude to Trump for “allowing the American group to be here in Ukraine today.”
“After the meetings in the Russian Federation, it was very important for us to have President Trump’s chief negotiators in Ukraine today,” Zelenskyy said.
The U.S. delegation traveled to Ukraine following talks in Moscow on Saturday, during which Witkoff and Kushner sat down with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss what a White House official told ABC News were “substantive plans for next steps” on the path toward a peace deal, despite few signs peace is any closer.
The visit to Kyiv by Witkoff and Kushner is their first during the full-scale invasion. The pair have visited Russia several times during the conflict.
They arrived from Poland by train before being welcomed by President Zelenskyy outside the historic Saint Sophia Cathedral in the center of the capital. Zelenskyy embraced the two the men before leading them inside the cathedral.
Prior to their arrival, Zelenskyy wrote in a post on X that he had met with Ukraine’s negotiating team and was expecting a “substantive conversation” with the U.S. envoys.
“Ukraine has always been and will remain constructive. We are interested in bringing the end of the war closer. Peace is needed. Security guarantees are needed. A dignified character of the postwar peace is needed. Our proposals are ready,” he wrote in a post to X.
The national security advisers of France, Germany and the U.K. were among senior European officials who also traveled to Kyiv to take part in Sunday’s talks.
A source told ABC News the American delegation was serious about the meetings in Moscow and Kyiv, adding that the visits are “not just for show.”
According to the source, the American side wants to end the war before winter, while Kyrylo Budanov, the head of Zelenskyy’s office, believes this will not be possible and that Russia will only be genuinely ready for negotiations in the spring or summer 2027.
The American negotiating pair spent more than three hours with Putin in the Kremlin on Saturday, with U.S. and Russian officials both praising the discussions.
But Putin afterward gave no sign of compromise. Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov told the state-run Tass news agency that Putin told Witkoff and Kushner that it was necessary to eliminate “all root causes of the Ukrainian conflict,” a phrase routinely used by officials in Moscow hinting at maximalist Russian demands that Ukraine be forced to accept neutrality, cut down its military and abandon any NATO aspirations.
Putin also “noted the successes of Russian forces” in the ongoing war effort “and expressed confidence in achieving its goals,” Ushakov said.
Most experts believe Putin’s position in recent weeks has only hardened, with signs he believes Russia is winning the war and is more determined to use military force to try to force concessions from Kyiv, including by targeting its energy system this winter.
In the last two weeks, Russia has significantly intensified its air attacks on Kyiv, using jet-powered drones to relentlessly terrorize the capital.
At the start of Saturday’s meeting, Witkoff thanked Putin for hosting the American delegation and noted the “incredible” stories and memories that he, Kushner, Ushakov and Russian Direct Investment Fund CEO Kirill Dmitriev will have when they retire. “Yours will be right at the top of it all,” Witkoff said.
Witkoff also conveyed Trump’s best wishes and thanked Putin on behalf of the Gilman family for helping secure the return of Rob Gilman. Putin said that the credit belonged to Trump.
A White House official told ABC News that Kushner and Witkoff were joined by officials from the National Security Council, State Department and Treasury Department during the discussions on “proposals to bring peace to this conflict.”
Witkoff further thanked Putin for supporting what he described as a temporary “no-shoot” arrangement around Kyiv and Moscow, which allowed the American delegation to travel safely to and from Russia.
Putin and Zelenskyy have both publicly said they will not strike each other’s capitals during the American delegations visits. While no Russian strikes struck Kyiv overnight Saturday, drones were reported to have targeted the nearby city of Boryspil. Russian strikes continued in the rest of Ukraine.
The Kremlin meeting did little to encourage Ukrainians, Oleksandr Merezhko — a member of the Ukrainian parliament and the chair of the body’s foreign affairs committee — told ABC News on Sunday.
“We are expecting Trump’s envoy but I don’t have any hopes at all,” he said from Kyiv. This is something that Trump doesn’t understand — Putin believes that there is no way back for him. He has committed so many crimes that, as he believes, he can save his skin only if Ukraine capitulates.”
Merezhko said he was among those skeptical of Witkof and Kushner’s ability to chart a path to a settlement, describing the pair as “amateurs without necessary knowledge and experience.”
Both Russia and Ukraine continued long-range overnight strikes. Ukraine’s air force said Russia launched 108 drones and an unspecified number of cruise missiles into the country overnight into Sunday morning. Air defenses downed 82 drones and six cruise missiles, the air force said, with impacts reported across 11 locations.
Ukraine’s State Emergency Service reported at least one attack in the Kyiv region, where a Russian strike caused a “large-scale fire” at an infrastructure facility.
Russia’s Defense Ministry, meanwhile, said its forces downed 258 Ukrainian drones overnight, with craft reported shot down over 14 Russian regions, occupied Crimea, the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.
Severe, damaging thunderstorms targeted parts of the Southeast on Saturday, with more severe weather possible on Sunday.
Several homes were damaged due to fallen trees in Rogersville, Tennessee and the community of Persia, Tennessee, and injuries were reported. In North Carolina, Fayetteville Airport reported a 72 mph wind gust from thunderstorms.
On Sunday, a level 2 out of 5 “slight risk” for severe weather is in effect for parts of Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina, including Atlanta, Savannah, Columbia, Charleston and Charlotte.
Damaging winds and flash flooding are the main threats, but some hail is also possible.
The same “slight risk” for severe weather exists Sunday in parts of Montana, including Great Falls and Butte. Damaging winds and large hail are the main threats with storms later today in the area.
While portions of the Southeast faced severe weather for the first part of the holiday weekend, it’s important to note that overall, much of the country is experiencing quiet conditions weather-wise for the Labor Day holiday weekend.
For the Labor Day holiday on Monday, there is no organized severe weather threat as much of the country continues to enjoy rather tranquil weather. Some areas could still see scattered thunderstorms which could bring lightning, gusty winds and downpours in spots.
Triple-digit heat scorches the Southeast
Dangerous heat persists for millions as the holiday weekend continues, with more than 40 million Americans under heat alerts Sunday from Kansas to Georgia.
Heat indices are soaring into the triple digits across this large swath of the country later Sunday afternoon.
Cooler and more comfortable conditions continue to settle in for much of the Northeast and will do the same farther south along much of the East Coast later Sunday.
Afternoon high temperatures will be in the mid-80s in Washington, D.C., Sunday and in the 70s in New York City Sunday and on Monday.
Raleigh, North Carolina will see highs decrease to the mid-80s Sunday after a long stretch of brutal heat.
However, parts of the Plains and South will remain very hot through the new workweek. An Extreme Heat Warning remains in place for Kansas City through Tuesday. Highs will be in the mid-90s each day, with feels-like temperatures up to 105 degrees during the afternoon.
Flash flood threat
On Sunday, the potential for flash flooding returns to parts of the Southwest, with a level 2 of 4 risk over parts of southern Nevada, northern Arizona and Utah.
This includes many national parks in Arizona and Utah on Sunday, including Grand Canyon National Park, Zion National Park and Bryce Canyon National Park, all which recently experienced significant flash flooding impacts from monsoon storms.
A Flood Watch has been posted for Sunday across portions of Utah, including Cedar City, Beaver Richfield and Price, as well as Zion National Park and Bryce Canyon National Park.
While the threat is not as widespread and intense as the previous event, scattered thunderstorms later in the day could bring downpours and frequent lightning. Flash flooding is possible where the heaviest rain develops.
Any burn scar areas from recent wildfires in Utah and Arizona will be especially vulnerable to any heavy rain that falls on Sunday.
Tropical storm warning issued for parts of Hawaii
Hurricane Lowell and Tropical Storm Karina will bring high surf impacts to the Hawaiian Islands through the holiday weekend, while Lowell is expected to bring heavy rain to Hawaii.
The National Weather Service issued a tropical storm warning for Kauai County on Sunday, saying tropical storm conditions were expected for Kauai Northwest Waters, Kauai Windward Waters, Kauai Leeward Waters and Kauai Channel on Monday morning and lasting through Tuesday afternoon.
Lowell has weakened slightly back to a Category 3 hurricane, with maximum sustained winds of 125 mph. It’s moving to the north-northwest at 6 mph with the center currently located roughly 600 miles southwest of Honolulu.
Lowell is forecast to remain a major hurricane over the next 24 hours but a weakening trend is expected to take over as it continues its turn to the north. The tropical system is still forecast to pass west of the main Hawaiian Islands late Monday into Tuesday.
Lowell is already bringing high surf to the south- and southeast-facing shores of the islands. A High Surf Advisory in effect for waves up to 12 feet along these shorelines.
While landfall is not expected, some of the outer bands of Lowell could impact the western Hawaiian Islands early this week.
(NEW YORK) — The murder trial of Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mom who killed her three young children while in the family’s home on Jan. 24, 2023, has ended in a mistrial after seven days of juror deadlock.
Clancy’s defense attorney, Kevin Reddington, claims she was suffering from postpartum psychosis when she strangled her children and attempted to take her own life. The prosecutors, Jennifer Sprague and Shanan Buckingham, argue that Clancy — who pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder — is criminally responsible for her children’s deaths.
Judge William Sullivan, who is overseeing the trial, has set a court date of Sept. 29, 2026, to reconvene and determine next steps.
Former U.S. Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer appears for a House Committee on Education and Workforce hearing on Capitol Hill on June 5, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
(WASHINGTON) — The former Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer had an “inappropriate relationship” with a member of her security detail and created a “toxic” work environment, according to a report from the department’s Office of Inspector General.
The long-awaited report quietly released Thursday night details the allegations against Chavez-DeRemer and members of her senior staff. She resigned as secretary in April and members of her senior staff were fired, according to the report.
Anthony D’Esposito, the Labor Department Inspector General, found that more than 30 witnesses said Chavez-DeRemer created a “toxic, intimidating and humiliating” work environment. The Inspector General opened the investigation after receiving a complaint in January 2026 about an inappropriate work environment under Chavez-DeRemer.
In one instance highlighted in the report, during personal travel to Oregon in April 2025, Chavez-DeRemer allegedly stopped at a club with “partially nude” dancers, had her head of security rearrange the detail so her limousine driver could enter with her, and then gave a member for the detail cash from her purse and had him give it to a performer.
“When the agent resisted and sought guidance from ASAIC 1, ASAIC 1 instructed him to comply with Chavez-DeRemer’s requests,” according to the report. “Chavez-DeRemer then took additional money from her purse and asked the agent to drop the bills one by one onto the partially nude woman.”
Chavez-DeRemer also allegedly had an “inappropriately close and unprofessional relationship” with a member of her security detail who “exercised supervisory and operational authority over her protective detail,” according to the report.
The report also alleges that Chavez-DeRemer used her staff for personal tasks, such as organizing her closet and purchasing holiday ornaments.
Chavez-DeRemer also accepted gifts and did not properly report them, according to the Inspector General. Those gifts included rodeo tickets, an alligator wallet and two cowboy hats, according to the report.
A text message to the former secretary was not returned; ABC News reached out to Chavez-DeRemer’s attorney as well.
ABC News has reached out to the Labor Department for comment.
Thomas Ross booking photo. (Joplin Municipal Jail)
(NEW YORK) — A Republican candidate for a Missouri State House seat was hit with a federal charge after he allegedly tried to plant drugs on his primary opponent, federal prosecutors alleged.
Thomas Christopher Ross, who won the Republican primary last month for Missouri House District 161 in Joplin, was charged Wednesday with conspiring to distribute a controlled substance after authorities discovered the alleged plot to plant cocaine and Adderall in the car of Louise Secker, who faced Ross in the Republican primary.
Ross’ campaign manager contacted the police in July after the candidate allegedly gave him the drugs and instructed him to plant them on Secker, the criminal complaint released Thursday said.
The unidentified campaign manager brought a bag of cocaine and an Adderall pill to the police, who confirmed they were real after tests, according to the criminal complaint.
“[The campaign manager] advised at the time that Ross was believed to have a prescription for Adderall, which was where he believed the capsule originated,” the complaint said.
The campaign manager showed law enforcement alleged text messages between himself and Ross, 37, where the candidate allegedly discussed the plot, with references going as far back as May, according to the complaint.
“I was hoping we could make it happen before THIS Thursday…which would be extreme egg on the face given Thursdays nights event [sic],” the alleged May 31 text from Ross read, according to the criminal complaint.
The police called in the FBI to help with the investigation and the bureau provided the campaign manager with a covert recorder that was used on July 31 to document a meeting between him and Ross, the complaint said.
During the meeting, the campaign manager told Ross that he still had the drugs and asked the candidate if he still wanted him to “try” and plant the drugs on Secker, according to the complaint.
Ross allegedly agreed and told the campaign manager that he could “call in an anonymous tip that Secker had drugs in her car,” the complaint said.
“[I]f you can pull it off…pull it off,” Ross allegedly told the campaign manager, according to the criminal complaint.
Ross defeated Secker in the primary four days later by only 33 votes, and was set to face off against Democratic candidate Aaron Metzger in the general election.
“Thank you again for your faith, your support, and your vote. I am truly grateful, and I will work every day to be a representative you can be proud of,” Ross, a married father of two, said in a social media post after his victory.
He was held at Joplin Municipal Jail, according to jail records. Ross has not entered a plea and a preliminary and detention hearing is scheduled for Sept. 9, according to court documents.
His public defender didn’t immediately return messages for comment. Ross’ campaign didn’t immediately return messages.
Missouri Republican Party Chairman Peter Kinder released a statement Wednesday after the charges were revealed and called on Ross to drop out of the race.
“The people of Southwest Missouri deserve nothing less than leadership they can trust,” he said in a statement.
Secker and Metzger did not immediately return messages for comment.
Envelope for mailing Official Vote by Mail ballot. (Getty Images stock photo)
(WASHINGTON) — The Trump administration on Thursday filed an urgent appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking permission to immediately implement new U.S. Postal Service rules for mail ballots that critics say impede on states’ authority to run elections.
A temporary restraining order against the USPS rules, which were prompted by President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at tightening access to mail ballots, is set to expire on Sept. 10 but could be extended indefinitely. A federal district court judge is set to rule imminently.
The new rules, published by USPS last month, require states to report basic voter information, such as a voter’s name and home address, attached to a unique barcode on every mail-in ballot distributed. Postal workers would then only deliver ballots addressed to voters who appear on the state-provided list.
Following the publication of the regulations last month, dozens of Democratic state attorneys general sued the Trump administration after an earlier lawsuit was blocked by the Supreme Court, which said the challenge was premature since the regulations hadn’t been finalized.
In its latest appeal to the justices,the Trump administration insisted the rules impose only “modest” ballot design and review requirements on states and that a requirement to submit name, address, and barcode information of intended recipients is not onerous or intrusive.
“The rule thus plainly does not seize control of states’ administration of elections — it simply imposes reasonable preparation requirements for certain election-related mail,” Solicitor General John Sauer wrote in the court filing.
“The rule’s regulation of the U.S. mail — not federal elections — is plainly constitutional,” he argued.
Sauer told the justices that the longer they wait to grant the administration’s request the more likely it is that some states may not be able to comply with the new rules before having their mail ballots printed for the fall election and, in turn, might deprive some voters of being able to receive a ballot delivered by USPS.
The states challenging the USPS rule have until Tuesday, Sept. 8, at 10 a.m. to formally respond before the court makes a decision.
The states and voter advocacy groups have argued that the new USPS regulations are an attempt by the Trump administration to federalize elections, which are historically and constitutionally managed by each state, and make it harder to vote by mail for everyday citizens.
