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President Donald Trump's White House construction project set off a communication breakdown and an air safety incident, federal investigators found.

According to a Thursday report by The Washington Post, the president's Marine One helicopter started the cascade of events when it took off from a temporary location on August 4 due to White House construction, and controllers never got the required heads-up.

The miscommunication led to "a loss of separation" between Marine One and a commercial airliner, according to a preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board released on Thursday....

One of the strongest earthquakes to strike the US east coast in decades rattled offices Tuesday in downtown Washington and caused panicked evacuations from skyscrapers as far away as New York.