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There was no mayday call from the commercial fishing vessel Lily Jean as it navigated the frigid Atlantic Ocean on Friday morning on its way home to Gloucester, Massachusetts, America’s oldest fishing port. The US Coast Guard was notified by the boat’s beacon that alerts when it hits the water. When rescuers arrived they found one person dead, floating in the water, along with a debris field and an empty lifeboat. Six people remain missing. The fate of the Lily Jean, a 22-metre (72-foot) fishing...

Natasha Cloud had a chance Friday night to script a Hollywood ending to Unrivaled Basketball’s trip to the Xfinity Mobile Arena. Instead, she penned a Philadelphia finish.

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Hong Kong must maintain cash reserves to cope with geopolitical shocks and support long-term growth, even with a surplus expected in the government’s operating account this year, the financial secretary has said. Paul Chan Mo-po also said on Saturday that the city’s economy outperformed forecasts last year, lifted by strong exports to Southeast Asia and a booming financial market. On Friday, the government announced a surplus of HK$43.9 billion (US$5.6 billion) in its operating account, which...

The soonest the US House of Representatives can vote on the funding deal and end the shutdown is Monday.

The soonest the US House of Representatives can vote on the funding deal and end the shutdown is Monday.

China’s factory activity faltered in January as weak domestic demand dragged down production at the start of the new ‍year, an official survey showed on Saturday. The official purchasing managers’ index (PMI) dropped to 49.3 in January, from 50.1 in December, below the 50-mark separating growth from contraction. It missed a forecast of 50 in a Reuters poll of analysts. Sub-indexes of new orders and new export orders also saw declines, respectively, down to 49.2 from 50.8 ⁠in December and 47.8...

Por MARÍA VERZA CIUDAD DE MÉXICO (AP) — Si el crimen organizado pone sus ojos en tu negocio, estás perdido. Miembros de un cártel secuestraron por unas horas a dos trabajadores de una tienda de vapeadores del norte de México, les vendaron los ojos, los ataron y pidieron hablar con los dueños. Querían comunicarles que […]

The visual effects studio that worked on the hit Netflix show "Stranger Things" was born 20 years ago in a dim basement in Old Montreal.

At an Indian gourmet food store, Avanti Mehta is organising a blind tasting of drinks sourced from France, Italy and India. No, this is not wine, it is water. Participants use tiny shot glasses to check the minerality, carbonation and salinity in samples of Evian from the French Alps, Perrier from southern France, San Pellegrino from Italy and India’s Aava from the foothills of the Aravalli mountains. “They will all taste different … you should be choosing a water that can give you some sort of...

The US government entered a partial shutdown Saturday as a midnight funding deadline passed without Congress approving a 2026 budget, though disruption was expected to be limited with the House set to move early next week to ratify a Senate-backed…

DENVER (AP) — Nikola Jokic anotó 31 puntos y capturó 12 rebotes en su primer partido en un mes, Tim Hardaway Jr. sumó 22 unidades y los Nuggets de Denver derrotaron el viernes 122-109 a los Clippers de los Ángeles. Jokic, tres veces elegido el Jugador Más Valioso de la NBA, se perdió 16 partidos […]