Christian Ministry CEO and Daughter Killed in Plane Crash for Hurricane Relief Mission

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A small plane carrying two people on a Christian hurricane-relief mission to Jamaica crashed Monday morning in Coral Springs, Florida, killing both on board just minutes after takeoff.

Authorities later confirmed that the victims were Alexander Wurm, 53, the CEO of the evangelical ministry Ignite the Fire, and his daughter Serena Wurm, 22. The two were traveling to deliver hurricane-relief supplies to communities in Jamaica when tragedy struck.

“Alexander, known for his warmth and unwavering kindness, devoted his life to serving others — both through his actions and by sharing the gospel of Jesus across the globe,” Ignite the Fire said in a heartfelt social media statement. “He and Serena were on a mission to bring help and hope to those in need.”

The turboprop King Air plane, manufactured in 1976, went down in a retention pond inside a gated residential neighborhood in Coral Springs, a suburb northwest of Fort Lauderdale. Witnesses said the aircraft narrowly missed several homes before crashing just five minutes after takeoff.

According to the Coral Springs Police Department, both occupants were pronounced dead at the scene. No residents on the ground were injured.

“The crash occurred shortly after departure. The plane came down into a pond, just yards away from several houses,” said one local resident, describing the frightening moment.

Authorities have not yet released the cause of the crash and said investigators would remain in the area through Tuesday to collect evidence and document the scene.

Records from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) identify the downed aircraft as a King Air model capable of seating seven to twelve people. Federal records show it was registered to International Air Services, a company that manages trust agreements allowing non-U.S. citizens to register aircraft with the FAA.

Flight-tracking data from FlightAware indicates the plane had made four previous trips between Jamaica and the Cayman Islands over the past week, stopping in Fort Lauderdale on Friday before Monday’s ill-fated flight.

Wurm’s ministry, Ignite the Fire, is known for organizing international outreach projects and humanitarian missions across the Caribbean and Central America. Supporters described him as a man of deep faith and relentless compassion, often seen leading teams into disaster-stricken areas to provide food, aid, and the gospel.

Messages of grief and prayer poured in across social media from friends, mission partners, and churches around the world.

“Alexander and Serena lived out their faith in action,” one post read. “They died doing what they loved — serving God and serving others.”

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Ex-Terrorist Leader Goes On Fox News, Gives Wild Answer About 9/11

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Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa deflected responsibility for the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks during a Fox News interview on Monday.

Nearly 3,000 people died across New York City, Washington, D.C., and Shanksville, Pa. during the 9/11 attacks, according to the Pew Research Center. When asked directly on “Special Report with Bret Baier” if he regrets the attack, al-Sharaa distanced himself entirely from the event.

“I was only 19 years old, so I was a very young person, and I didn’t have any decision-making power at that time, and I don’t have anything to do with it,” al-Sharaa said. “And al-Qaeda was not present right then in my area. So you’re speaking to the wrong person about this subject.”

The Syrian leader then shifted the conversation.

“We mourn for every civilian that got killed, and we know that people suffer from the war, especially civilians who pay the price, a hefty price for the war,” al-Sharaa said.

President Donald Trump hosted al-Sharaa at the White House on Monday, welcoming the former al-Qaeda member who once fought U.S. forces in Iraq and served time in Abu Ghraib prison. The U.S. government removed al-Sharaa from its terror list just days before his meeting with Trump, according to CBS News. (Read more from “Ex-Terrorist Leader Goes On Fox News, Gives Wild Answer About 9/11” HERE)

FDA’s Latest Move Might Not Be All It’s Chalked Up To Be

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Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is highlighting the benefits of hormone-replacement therapy (HRT) for menopausal women.

“The [Food and Drug Administration (FDA)] is initiating the removal of broad black box warnings from hormone replacement therapy products for menopause,” he said Monday.

Hormone replacement treatments are sold in pill, patch, injection, spray and cream form, to name a few. All come with a black box label — the FDA’s highest safety-related warning.

“Women may be under-utilizing approved therapies that can alleviate menopause symptoms and improve women’s health” because of these warning labels, HHS warned in a press statement released Monday.

Menopause refers to a stage in female life history when she no longer gets periods and can no longer get pregnant. The average age of menopause in the United States is 52, according to the National Institute on Aging (NIA). (Read more from “FDA’s Latest Move Might Not Be All It’s Chalked Up To Be” HERE)

Supreme Court Extends Block on Full SNAP Payments as Shutdown Nears Possible End

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The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday extended its order blocking full Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) payments, prolonging uncertainty for millions of Americans who rely on the program to feed their families. The decision comes as Congress inches closer to a deal that could end the ongoing government shutdown and restore federal aid.

The temporary order—set to expire just before midnight Thursday—keeps in place a chaotic patchwork of food aid distribution across the country. In some states, SNAP recipients have received their full monthly benefits, while others have gotten partial payments or none at all.

The Senate has already passed a bipartisan bill to reopen the government, and the House of Representatives could vote as early as Wednesday. If approved and signed into law, the measure would restart the flow of funds to roughly 42 million Americans who depend on SNAP. Still, it’s unclear how quickly full payments could resume once the government reopens, as implementation timelines vary by state.

Advocates and state officials say the uneven distribution of benefits has left families scrambling to make ends meet. “It’s easier to make full payments quickly than partial ones,” said Carolyn Vega, a policy analyst with the anti-hunger group Share Our Strength, who noted that states issuing partial benefits may face technical hurdles when processing remaining payments.

In Pennsylvania, some recipients received their full November benefits last week, while others remain empty-handed. Jim Malliard, 41, of Franklin, said his family’s $350 monthly benefit has yet to arrive. Caring full-time for his blind wife and medically fragile teenage daughter, Malliard said he’s been rationing what’s left in the pantry.

“It’s been a lot of late nights, counting every penny,” he said. “Anxiety doesn’t even begin to describe it.”

The Trump administration halted full SNAP funding after October, triggering a wave of lawsuits and conflicting court rulings. While some judges ordered the government to restore partial payments—up to 65% of normal benefits—one ruling last week required the administration to resume full funding, prompting the Justice Department to appeal to the Supreme Court.

In its filing, Solicitor General D. John Sauer argued that “the answer to this crisis is not for federal courts to reallocate resources without lawful authority,” maintaining that only Congress can resolve the issue by reopening the government.

An appeals court on Monday ordered the return of full payments, a move that was set to take effect Tuesday night before the Supreme Court stepped in to block it.

The Senate-passed bill would replenish SNAP funding and reopen the federal government through the fiscal year. House Speaker Mike Johnson has called lawmakers back to Washington to consider the deal, which was negotiated between Senate Democrats and Republicans.

President Donald Trump has not confirmed whether he will sign the bill but told reporters Sunday that “it looks like we’re getting close to the shutdown ending.”

For now, millions of low-income Americans remain caught in limbo—waiting on Washington’s next move to determine whether they’ll be able to afford their next meal.

‘Clinton Corruption Files’: Bondi, Patel Unleash New Evidence About Former First Family Foundation

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Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel have produced to Congress a new cache of documents showing how Bill and Hillary Clinton’s foundation collected donations from foreign and domestic interests seeking influence – raising fresh concerns that such evidence was kept from federal prosecutors who tried to investigate pay-to-play allegations against the former first family a decade ago.

Officials told Just the News that the documents were transmitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee in recent days and detail numerous instances of foreigners and even a U.S. defense contractor seeking to curry favor with the Clintons through donations to their family charity, including when Hillary Clinton served as secretary of State. Bill Clinton was a U.S. president from 1993 to 2001.

The officials said some of the evidence was flagged by whistleblowers who claimed such evidence was kept from a corruption investigation that was being conducted in 2015 by the Little Rock, Ark., U.S. attorney’s office before it was shut down by the Obama administration’s Justice Department.

The documents will make clear that there was an effort “to obstruct legitimate inquiries into the Foundation by blocking real investigation by line-level FBI agents and DOJ field prosecutors and keeping them from following the money,” said one official directly familiar with the documents.

Officials said they have been gathering the evidence for weeks and have dubbed the documents the “Clinton corruption files.”

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Trump Pardons Giuliani, Powell, Chesebro and Dozens More Involved in 2020 ‘Fake Electors’ Case

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President Trump granted pardons for 77 individuals tied to a plot to overturn the 2020 presidential election – including Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and Kenneth Chesebro, the White House announced late Sunday night.

The full list of those pardoned, many of whom faced charges related to the 2020 “fake electors” plot, was posted to X just before 11 p.m. by Trump’s “clemency czar” attorney Ed Martin.

Those on the list were allegedly entangled in a scheme to organize alternate slates of electors from battleground states that former President Joe Biden won, including Georgia, Arizona, and Michigan.

Pardons also went to former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows and other 2020 campaign aides who allegedly worked together to submit names of fake electors from the three states to Congress to keep him in office.

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‘Dismay And Disgust’: Federal Judge Rage Quits, Blasting ‘Existential Threat’ Trump Over ‘Angry Attacks On The Courts’

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A Massachusetts-based federal judge publicized his abrupt departure from the bench after 40 years through an op-ed published Sunday by The Atlantic bemoaning President Donald Trump’s “angry attacks on the courts.”

Former U.S. District Judge Mark L. Wolf, 78, appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1985, officially tendered his resignation from the lifetime appointment Friday. The former senior judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts later wrote in The Atlantic he was “relinquishing” his longtime post, claiming the Trump administration’s “assault on the rule of law is so deeply disturbing to me that I feel compelled to speak out.”

Trump, whose name Wolf mentions 30 times in his piece, “is using the law for partisan purposes, targeting his adversaries while sparing his friends and donors from investigation, prosecution, and possible punishment,” the former Massachusetts judge alleged.

“As I watched in dismay and disgust from my position on the bench, I came to feel deeply uncomfortable operating under the necessary ethical rules that muzzle judges’ public statements and restrict their activities,” Wolf wrote. “Day after day, I observed in silence as President Trump, his aides, and his allies dismantled so much of what I dedicated my life to.”

In making his case against Trump, the judge referenced President Richard Nixon, in whose Department of Justice (DOJ) he briefly served. (Read more from “‘Dismay And Disgust’: Federal Judge Rage Quits, Blasting ‘Existential Threat’ Trump Over ‘Angry Attacks On The Courts’” HERE)

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U.S. Air Travel Meltdown: More Than 1,700 Flights Canceled as Shutdown Cripples Nation’s Skies

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America’s air travel system descended into chaos this weekend as more than 1,700 flights were canceled and thousands more delayed across the country, with New York City’s three major airports among the hardest hit, according to CNN. The disruptions—fueled by massive air traffic controller shortages caused by the ongoing government shutdown—left passengers stranded nationwide and raised new fears about aviation safety and infrastructure stability.

Data from flight tracking service FlightAware showed over 1,500 flight cancellations and 6,600 delays on Saturday alone, followed by another 1,000 cancellations on Sunday. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) confirmed that the staffing shortfalls were the result of unpaid workers missing multiple paychecks.

The situation was particularly dire at New York’s Newark Liberty, LaGuardia, and John F. Kennedy airports, where delays stretched for hours. Newark was temporarily shut down to incoming flights after average arrival delays exceeded four hours. At LaGuardia, departing flights were delayed up to 75 minutes, while JFK saw average delays surpass two hours.

Elsewhere, the nation’s busiest airport—Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International—reported delays of up to five and a half hours, while Washington D.C.’s Reagan National Airport canceled nearly 80 flights on Friday and delayed nearly half of all incoming arrivals.

The chaos spread far beyond the East Coast. Airports in Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, Denver, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Phoenix, Seattle, Orlando, and Boston all reported widespread disruptions. Even major international hubs such as Amsterdam’s Schiphol, Toronto’s Pearson, and Tokyo’s Haneda experienced double-digit cancellations connected to the U.S. gridlock.

To contain the mounting crisis, the FAA ordered airlines to cut domestic flights by 4% at the country’s 40 busiest airports—a move officials said was necessary to maintain safety standards. However, the measure failed to prevent cascading delays and cancellations.

According to CNN, the FAA now plans to escalate the cuts if Congress fails to end the shutdown—reducing flights by 6% on Tuesday, 8% by Thursday, and up to 10% by next Friday. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned that if the stalemate continues, reductions could climb as high as 15–20%, severely hampering the upcoming holiday travel season.

Former FAA Deputy Administrator Dan Elwell called the situation “uncharted territory,” warning that the continued disruptions could “jeopardize not just travel plans but air safety itself.”

In an eyebrow-raising moment during an interview on CNN’s State of the Union, Secretary Duffy claimed that the Defense Secretary had offered to loan military air traffic controllers to help ease the crisis.

“The secretary of war texted me yesterday and said, ‘I might have some air traffic controllers. If you could use them, I’m gonna offer them to you,’” Duffy said, adding that he wasn’t sure they were certified for civilian airspace.

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Trump Issues Harshest Rebuke Yet Of MTG

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President Donald Trump issued a harsh rebuke of Republican Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene following her recent remarks criticizing the White House.

CNN White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins asked Trump about Greene’s social media post expressing frustration over his White House meeting with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, a former al-Qaeda leader, Monday. The reporter also pressed the president over her comments criticizing the administration on cost of living and other domestic policy issues.

“I don’t know what happened to Marjorie,” Trump responded. “She’s a nice woman, but I don’t know what happened. She’s lost her way, I think, but I have to view the presidency as a worldwide situation, not locally. We could have a world that’s on fire where wars come to our shores very easily if you had a bad president.”


He called former President Joe Biden a “horrible president,” pointing to the conflicts that began during his administration. “I put out 8 wars, 9 to come. I think I’ll get the other one taken care of,” Trump said before highlighting the economic toll of the Russia-Ukraine war on the U.S.

“When you’re president, you really have to sort of watch over the world because you are going to be dragged into it otherwise,” he added.

Trump then referenced his support for the “One, Big Beautiful Bill,” calling it “the biggest tax cuts in the history of the country” before taking another swipe at Greene.

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Supreme Court Rejects Kim Davis Bid to Overturn Ruling Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage

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The Supreme Court rejected a long-shot bid Monday by Kim Davis, the former Kentucky court clerk who refused to issue a marriage license to a gay couple, to get the justices to reconsider the court’s 2015 ruling legalizing same-sex unions nationwide.

Davis, 59, petitioned the justices in July to review a lower court’s 2022 finding that she violated David Ermold and David Moore’s constitutional right to marry.

Four justices would have had to support hearing the case for oral arguments to be scheduled.

Monday’s order did not indicate whether any of the nine justices pushed to hear Davis’ appeal; however, Justice Clarence Thomas has suggested that the ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges be given a second look.

“In future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell,” Thomas wrote in a 2022 concurring opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned the Roe v. Wade decision that had enshrined the constitutional right to abortion. (Read more from “Supreme Court Rejects Kim Davis Bid to Overturn Ruling Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage” HERE)