NASHUA, N.H. (AP) — A pilot was taken to the hospital with injuries Wednesday after a small plane crashed into a residential neighborhood in southern New Hampshire, authorities said.

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Emergency crews found the aircraft upside down in a snow bank in the parking lot of a wooded condominium complex in Nashua Wednesday afternoon.

Police said the pilot was the only person on board and was the only person injured. The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating.

The Velocity V-Twin plane crashed at the Cannongate Condominiums shortly after departing from the nearby Nashua Airport around 2:10 p.m. local time, according to the FAA.

Aerial video from NBC10 Boston showed damage to the roof of one of the condos near the crash site.

President Donald Trump intends to preview his agenda for next year and beyond in a live speech from the White House on Wednesday night. His remarks are coming at a crucial time as he tries to rebuild his steadily eroding popularity.

The White House offered few details about what the Republican president intends to emphasize in the 9 p.m. EST speech. Public polling shows most U.S. adults are frustrated with his handling of the economy as inflation picked up after his tariffs raised prices and hiring slowed.

The Associated Press is providing a livestream of Trump’s address below:

Contributing: Josh Boak, Associated Press

Fourteen months after the Pohlad family announced it was exploring a sale of the Minnesota Twins, and four months after it instead decided to maintain control of the team and take on limited partners, the transaction is finally complete.

Tom Pohlad

Glick Family Investments, which is based in New York, and Värde Partners co-founder and co-executive chair George G. Hicks, alongside other Minnesota business leaders, have joined on as principal investors, while Minnesota Wild owner Craig Leipold will also be a limited partner.

The reveal comes alongside even bigger news: Tom Pohlad, who has been leading the sale process on behalf of the family for the past 14 months, will succeed his brother, Joe, as the team’s executive chair. With Major League Baseball approval — expected to come early next year — Tom Pohlad will also take over as the organization’s control person, a role currently being filled by his uncle, Jim Pohlad.

“As a family, this time has caused us to do a lot of self-reflection about what’s been working and what needs to improve in the organization,” Tom Pohlad said. “When we took a hard look at things, it’s undeniable that we haven’t won enough baseball games, the financial health of the club has been put in jeopardy and we’ve got a fanbase that has lost trust in us as owners and, as a result, the organization and the direction it’s headed.”

That being said, the family decided it was time for new leadership and that the conclusion of the transaction was the right time for it.

The idea of moving from Joe to Tom has been in the works for about a month, Tom said, admitting that the decision has been hard on the relationship between the two brothers, as well as on their father, Bob, and uncles, Jim and Bill as Joe had wanted to remain in the role. The Pohlad family has owned the Twins since 1984 when patriarch Carl Pohlad, who was Joe and Tom’s grandfather, purchased it for $44 million.

Joe Pohlad, who had been a longtime Twins employee, took over as executive chair from Jim in late 2022, and as he steps to the side, he called his time as executive chair “one of the greatest responsibilities and privileges,” of his life in a statement released by the team.

“Now is the time to put new leadership in place and to have a renewed sense of energy, a renewed sense of focus, a different level of accountability and ultimately a clear direction on where we’re taking this organization,” Tom Pohlad said.

As he takes over leadership of the team, Tom is well aware of the fact that he has his work cut out for him.

His brother Joe was at the helm when the Twins doled out the largest contract in team history to shortstop Carlos Correa, who has since been traded in an effort to shed salary. Joe oversaw a team in 2023 with a club-record payroll that went further in the playoffs than any team in the past two decades.

But behind the scenes, the Twins’ debt had been climbing for years, due in part to a variety of factors — COVID-19 shut the ballpark doors to fans and attendance has decreased in recent years, television revenue has dipped and ownership has chosen “to continue to invest beyond what the revenues support,” Tom Pohlad said in an effort to field a competitive team.

“People like to say we’re not committed to investing in this team,” he said. “Five hundred million of debt would tell you the exact opposite.”

In response, after reaching the American League Division Series in 2023, team ownership slashed payroll by around $30 million. The move, combined with Joe Pohlad’s comments about right-sizing the payroll, drew sharp criticism from a fanbase that has grown increasingly critical of ownership over recent years.

The Twins collapsed over the last six weeks of the 2024 season, missing the playoffs entirely after holding postseason odds around 95% in August. A second-straight disappointing season led to a sell-off at the trade deadline, another fourth-place finish and the firing of manager Rocco Baldelli, who has since been replaced by Derek Shelton.

After two painful years for Twins fans, Tom Pohlad acknowledged how upset the fanbase is with the family and expressed the need to win fans’ trust back. This, he said, was something he embraced, and viewed as an opportunity for the organization.

“I think the work of earning their trust comes with two things: communication and accountability,” Tom said. “We’ve got to do a better job of telling fans where we’re going there, and how we’re going to get there and why we’re doing the things we’re doing, and I commit to that going forward. On the accountability side, we’ve got to figure out what’s keeping us from having more consistent success than we’ve had for the past.”

The work for him starts first with earning the trust of team employees and getting to know the business of baseball — most recently, Tom has been serving as the Executive Chairman of Pohlad Companies — and then figuring out what needs to be done differently to breed success moving forward.

But as a long period of ownership uncertainty over the past 14 months comes to an end, Tom made one thing for certain:

“We’re in it for the long haul,” he said of his family.

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By GRAHAM LEE BREWER

The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina achieved a goal more than a century in the making on Wednesday when it secured federal recognition as a tribal nation through the passage of a defense bill in Congress.

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The state-recognized tribe, whose historic and genealogical claims have been called into question by several tribal leaders, has been seeking federal acknowledgement for generations. Congress has considered the issue for more than 30 years, but the effort gained momentum after President Donald Trump endorsed the state-recognized tribe on the campaign trail last year.

Legislation to recognize the Lumbee Tribe had struggled to pass through Congress in recent years, but it was attached to the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act, which was passed by the Senate on Wednesday afternoon. It was unclear when the president would sign it.

“It means a lot because we have been figuring out how to get here for so long,” said Lumbee Tribal Chairman John Lowery moments after celebrating the victory in the office of North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis. “We have been second-class Natives and we will never be that again, and no one can take it away from us.”

With federal recognition comes a bevy of federal resources, including access to new streams of federal dollars and grants and resources like the Indian Health Service. It also allows the tribe to put land into trust, which gives it more control over things like taxation and economic development, such as a casino.

John Lowery, N.C. State Rep. and Chairman of the Lumbee Tribe of N.C., center, leads a toast to Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., center, front right, as members of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, celebrate the passage of a bill granting their people federal recognition, on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

The journey to recognition

In the 1980s, the Lumbee Tribe sought recognition through the Office of Federal Acknowledgement within the Interior Department, which evaluates the historical and genealogical claims of tribal applicants. The office declined to accept the application, citing a 1956 act of Congress that acknowledged the Lumbee Tribe but withheld the benefits of federal recognition.

That decision was reversed in 2016, allowing the Lumbee to pursue recognition through the federal administrative process. The tribe instead continued to seek recognition through an act of Congress.

There are 574 federally recognized tribal nations. Since the Office of Federal Acknowledgement was established in 1978, 18 have been approved by the agency, while about two dozen have gained recognition through congressional legislation. Nineteen applications ranging from Maine to Montana are now pending before the agency, with at least one under consideration by Congress.

Once federally recognized, the Lumbee Tribe would become one of the largest tribal nations in the country, with about 60,000 members. Congressional Budget Office estimates have found that providing the tribe with the necessary federal resources would cost hundreds of millions of dollars in the first few years alone.

Austin Curt Thomas, 11, gets a celebratory fist bump from Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., as he and his father Aaron Thomas, of Pembroke, N.C., join fellow members of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, to celebrate after the passage of a bill granting their people federal recognition, on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

“Hopefully, Congress will expand the pie in appropriations so that the other tribes, many of which are poor, don’t suffer because there’s suddenly such a larger number of Native Americans in that region,” said Kevin Washburn, former assistant secretary of Indian affairs at the Interior Department and a professor at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law.

Over 200 Lumbee members gathered in a gymnasium in Pembroke, North Carolina, to watch the final Senate vote on television. They celebrated with shouts, raised hands and applause as the unofficial tally indicated the bill would receive final congressional approval.

Victor Dial held his 8-month daughter Collins at the celebration. Dial’s grandfather is a late former tribal chairman.

“He told us the importance of this, and he told us this day would happen, but we didn’t know when,” Dial said. “I’m so glad my kids were here to see it.”

Disputes over merit and heritage

Not everyone in Indian Country is celebrating. The move has drawn opposition from some tribal leaders, historians and genealogists who argue that the Lumbee’s claims are unverifiable and that Congress should require the tribe to complete the formal recognition process.

People celebrate after passage of the National Defense Authorization Act by the U.S. Senate during a watch party hosted by the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025, in Pembroke, N.C. (AP Photo/Allison Joyce)

“Federal recognition does not create us — it acknowledges us,” Shawnee Tribe Chief Ben Barnes, an opponent of Lumbee recognition, testified before the Senate last month. He warned against replacing historical documentation with political considerations.

Critics have noted that the Lumbee have a history of shifting claims and previously used different names, including Cherokee Indians of Robeson County, and say the tribe lacks a documented historical language.

“If identity becomes a matter of assertion rather than continuity, then this body will not be recognizing tribes, it will be manufacturing them,” Barnes told lawmakers.

The Lumbee Tribe counters that it descends from a mixture of ancestors “from the Algonquian, Iroquoian and Siouan language families,” according to its website, and notes it has been recognized by North Carolina since 1885.

Politics influence tribal recognition

While the Lumbee Tribe has received bipartisan support over the years, federal recognition became a campaign promise in 2024 for both Trump and Democratic nominee Kamala Harris.

“He kept that promise and showed extraordinary leadership,” said Tillis, the Republican senator who introduced a bill to recognize the Lumbee Tribe.

People celebrate after passage of the National Defense Authorization Act by the U.S. Senate, during a watch party hosted by the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025, in Pembroke, N.C. (AP Photo/Allison Joyce)

Robeson County, where most Lumbee members live, has shifted politically in recent years. Once dominated by Democrats, the socially conservative area has trended Republican. The Lumbee Tribe’s members in North Carolina are an important voting block in the swing state, which Trump won by more than three points.

In January, Trump issued an executive order directing the Interior Department to develop a plan for Lumbee recognition. That plan was submitted to the White House in April, and a department spokesperson said the tribe was advised to pursue recognition through Congress.

Since then, Lowery, the tribal chairman, has worked closely with members of Congress, particularly Tillis, and appealed directly to Trump. In September, Lowery wrote to Trump announcing ancestral ties between the Lumbee Tribe and the president’s daughter Tiffany Trump, according to Bloomberg, which first reported on the letter.

Associated Press writers Gary D. Robertson in Raleigh, North Carolina, Allen G. Breed in Pembroke, North Carolina, and Jacquelyn Martin in Washington, D.C., contributed.