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U.S. President Donald Trump has hailed a deal led by U.S. firm BlackRock to buy most of the $22.8 billion ports business of Hong Kong conglomerate CK Hutchison which includes assets along the Panama Canal. The deal will give the U.S. consortium control of key Panama Canal ports amid White House calls to remove them […]
LAKE WORTH BEACH, Fla. — Retired Capt. Gail Harris said her dream of joining the Navy started when she was a little girl. “Well when I was 5 years old, I was watching a movie with my father called ‘A Wing and a Prayer,’ Harris said. “It was about the U.S.S. Enterprise aircraft carrier right […]
Thousands of people in the South saw a bright object streaking across the sky Saturday night about 10 p.m. CT, moving generally from south to north. While the Ursid meteor shower is ongoing this weekend, this was more likely a piece of space debris breaking up in Earth’s atmosphere. People all across the southeastern U.S. […]
Hong Kong CNN — China says two of its astronauts completed a nine-hour spacewalk Tuesday, a figure that beats the US-held record for the world’s longest spacewalk set in 2001, in the latest milestone in the country’s ambitious space program.
The stolen base has, well, stolen the headlines in MLB over the last two seasons. The new pitch timer and pickoff limit rules have sparked steals back to a level not seen in a long time. Superstars are running down milestones — Ronald Acuña Jr. went 40-70 in 2023, and Shohei Ohtani went 50-50 in […]
TD Bank will pay more than $3 billion in penalties after admitting that it failed to adequately guard against money laundering as well as violations of the Bank Secrecy Act, federal authorities said Thursday. Over a nearly 10-year period dating back to 2014, TD Bank had “long-term, pervasive and systemic deficiencies” in its anti-money laundering […]
A 74-year-old Colorado man was injured after a black bear with three cubs crashed in through his sliding glass door and he was unable to get them to leave, the Colorado parks and wildlife department said. Residents of the home were startled by a loud crash at about 8.30pm Thursday night and saw the bears […]
The US and France have called for a 21-day temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah to make way for broader negotiations, as the UN secretary general, António Guterres, told a UN security council meeting that “hell is breaking loose” in Lebanon. Israel’s top general has said the country
(Bloomberg) — A bid to break up Alphabet Inc.’s Google is one of the options being considered by the Justice Department after a landmark court ruling found that the company monopolized the online search market, according to people with knowledge of the deliberations. Most Read from Bloomberg The move would be Washington’s first push to […]
A historically intense and long-lasting heat wave in the Western United States, which has set hundreds of records from Washington state to Arizona, will continue to scorch the region for several more days. The first signs of even modest relief do not materialize until late this coming weekend.