It was 4 p.m. on Jan. 13, 1982, and Lenny Skutnik was just trying to make his way home. It was snowing. Most of the city had left work early, and Skutnik’s was one of a slew of cars battling rush hour ...

A June 7 article in the Style section gave an incorrect age for the woman whom Lenny Skutnik helped rescue after the crash of an Air Florida plane into the 14th Street Bridge in 1982. She was 22.

MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell on Thursday knocked President Donald Trump’s “completely indiscriminate” act of throwing around accusations at a press briefing tied to the deadly plane crash in ...

Named for Lenny Skutnik, the savior of a drowning jetliner passenger whose aircraft crashed into the Potomac River in 1982, these (mostly) heroic folks have been mainstays of the annual State of the ...

Ronald Reagan invited Lenny Skutnik, who saved a woman from drowning after a plane crash, to the State of the Union in 1982. Since, presidents have kept the tradition of inviting guests. Ronald Reagan ...

Who will be this year’s Lenny Skutnik? Ever since January 1982, when Ronald Reagan paused during his first State of the Union address to point to the man who had pulled an Air Florida plane-crash ...

If you've watched enough State of the Union addresses, you're likely familiar with this part of the speech — where the president highlights everyday citizens to make a broader point about the country.

The powder-keg partisanship that drove Capitol Hill into the longest government shutdown in U.S. history is not likely to cool by Tuesday's State of the Union address. As President Donald Trump ...

Roberto Marquez from Dallas, Texas, sets up a makeshift memorial for the victims of the crash of an American Airlines flight and a Blackhawk helicopter in Arlington, Virginia. (Roberto Schmidt / AFP ...