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Prompted by a radar failure a week ago at Newark Liberty Airport, and a midair collision that killed 67 people in Washington D.C., the Trump administration announced an unprecedented program to rebuild the nation’s air traffic control system and recruit more air traffic controllers. U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and every speaker at a Thursday afternoon announcement paid tribute family members of the crash victims killed in that mid-air collision of an American Airlines commuter jet and Army helicopter over Washington D.C. in January. The harrowing 90-second blackout on April...