Flights halted at eastern US airports as world leaders arrive for New York UN meeting

Hundreds of flights from US east coast airports were cancelled or delayed on Monday due to a telecommunications line outage caused by a construction mistake, US officials said. Ground stops were issued for John ‌F. Kennedy Airport and LaGuardia airports, as well as an airport in Teterboro, New Jersey, as 130 world leaders and dozens of ministers are arriving in New York for the annual high-level meeting of the United Nations General Assembly. Transport Secretary Sean Duffy said on social media...