A pilot and 11 passengers were killed Sunday after their airplane crashed moments after takeoff at a western Missouri airport in one of the deadliest US skydiving plane crashes in decades, authorities...

Eleven passengers and a pilot who were taking off for a skydiving trip in Missouri were killed in a plane crash shortly after takeoff on Sunday near the Butler Memorial Airport, several local authorit...

The crash happened during takeoff and was reported about 11:27 a.m., Bates County Sheriff Chad Anderson said in a news conference Sunday afternoon.

Iran confirms a memorandum of understanding with the US is finalized and says commitments “take effect” starting Friday. Follow live updates.

The United States and Iran have reached an agreement to end the war and open the Strait of Hormuz, offering relief to the global economy more than three months since fighting began.

The proposed memorandum of understanding calls for reopening the ​strait and lifting the U.S. naval blockade on Iranian ports, sources on all sides of the talks said.