VIDEO: This week on Plugged In with Greta Van Susteren: Two airplane crashes involving Boeing 737 MAX planes happened five months apart. More than 350 people were killed. Could it be pilot error or a defective aircraft? Many countries, including the United States, are not taking any chances. We’ll speak to former pilots, investigators and aviation analysts to find out whether it’s safe to fly.

ON THIS DAY IN AMERICAN HISTORY On March 20, 1854 the Republican Party is founded in Ripon, Wisconsin. The party was the creation of former Whig Party members who thought that party was not capable of dealing with the growing crisis over slavery. The Republicans opposed the spread of slavery in the western territories. The new party quickly gained a lot of followers in the North, and by 1860 the Southern slave states were threatening secession if the Republicans took the presidency. In November of that year, Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln was elected, and six weeks later South Carolina left the Union leading to the Civil War.

An Afghan official in the country’s National Security Council Tuesday downplayed a Reuter’s report alleging that senior U.S. diplomats have informed Afghan President Ashraf Ghani that his national security adviser is no longer welcome in Washington following his blistering public attacks on the U.S Special Representative for Afghan reconciliation last week.

At precisely 4:32 p.m. local time, Train 84 “Azov” pulls out of the Kyiv station into the southern suburbs of the capital bound for Mariupol – a journey of more than 1,000 kilometers to the frontline of Ukraine’s war with Russia. On board for the night is a cross-section of Ukrainian society.

VIDEO: Brazil’s new president, Jair Bolsonaro, dubbed the “Trump of the Tropics”, met President Donald Trump at the White House Tuesday. The leaders discussed a range of trade and military issues, including finding a resolution to the political crisis in Venezuela, with Trump suggesting an offer of preferential military cooperation status to Brazil.

As India prepares for general elections on April 11, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is being attacked by opposition parties for failing to make good on a promise he made in 2014 to create millions of jobs for India’s huge young population. Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party rebuts that criticism and says India is generating new opportunities as it becomes one of the world’s fastest growing major economies.