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Point Roberts, Washington — There may be no town in the U.S. as Canadian as Point Roberts, Washington.”I would say 90% of our business is driven by the Canadians,” said Tamara Hansen, who runs the Saltwater Café. On this particular April day, the Saltwater was completely empty at the height of lunch hour. “This is not normal, to not have anybody sitting in the restaurant,” Hansen said. Nothing is normal these days in Point Roberts, which is located on the southernmost tip of the Tsawwassen peninsula, about 25 miles south of Vancouver, British Columbia. In one of the only American towns…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The New York Yankees thought they had finally found their closer when they acquired two-time National League Reliever of the Year Devin Williams. On Sunday, they demoted him.Coming into this season, Williams owned a 1.83 ERA in his first six MLB seasons, all with the Milwaukee Brewers. That figure was the second-best in the majors, behind only Emmanuel Clase (who, too, is struggling), and his 14.3 K/9 in that span was the fourth-best.But with the Yankees, he had allowed 10 earned runs in his first eight innings of work, and after blowing…

The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Wednesday over the fate of the nation’s first religious charter school, in Oklahoma, which seeks to use government money to teach a curriculum infused by Catholic doctrine.In earlier cases from Maine and Montana, the court ruled that states that decide to create programs to help parents pay for private schools must allow them to choose religious ones. The main question in the new case is whether the First Amendment permits — or even requires — states to sponsor and finance religious charter schools, which are public schools with substantial autonomy.The Oklahoma school, St.…

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted April 30, 2025 7:39 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size For most Canadians, Wednesday is the last day to file your taxes which is especially important if you need to avoid late penalties and interest on amounts owing. The deadline for self-employed workers to file to the Canada Revenue Agency is June 16, though interest on any outstanding balances begin accruing after today.Late tax filers could see a five per cent penalty on their balance owing and an additional one per cent for each full month that they…

The meeting between Eagles coach Andrew McQualter and senior stars that has been labelled a “crisis intervention” was an open discussion orchestrated by football boss John Worsfold to improve culture.

TAIPEI: Taiwan’s trade-reliant economy grew at its fastest pace in a year in the first quarter of 2025 compared with the final quarter of 2024 thanks to an export surge on strong tech demand ahead of the introduction of possible US import tariffs. Taiwan is a key hub in the global technology supply chain for companies such as Apple and Nvidia, and home to the world’s largest contract chipmaker, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd (TSMC),. Gross domestic product grew by a preliminary 5.37 per cent in the January-March quarter from a year earlier, the fastest rate since the 6.64 per…

Spain’s top security and defense officials met on Wednesday to discuss the blackout on the Iberian Peninsula this week, which halted critical infrastructure for up to 18 hours in some areas.The authorities in Spain and Portugal are scrambling to determine what caused the power grid to shut down.Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of Spain met with National Security Council officials in Madrid, and Spain’s Council of Ministers held a separate meeting focused on the outage. The Spanish government has asked European regulators, as well as Spain’s ministry of ecological transition, Spanish security officials and Spain’s national grid operator, to investigate the…

Late last month, President Trump began grumbling — first quietly and privately, then publicly — that the Senate was moving too slowly to confirm his picks to fill highly sought ambassadorships around the world.Mere weeks later, Senate Republicans have vastly stepped up their pace in approving his nominees, installing nearly a dozen mostly wealthy loyalists as envoys to key countries and moving more quickly than other presidents have in the past few decades.The flurry of confirmations — 10 in Mr. Trump’s first 100 days in office — has already outpaced his most recent predecessors and that of his first term,…

The happiness curve is collapsing.For decades, research showed that the way people experienced happiness across their lifetimes looked like a U-shaped curve. Happiness tended to be high when they were young, then dipped in midlife, only to rise again as they grew old.But recent surveys suggest that young adults aren’t as happy as they used to be, and that U-shaped curve is starting to flatten.This pattern has shown up yet again in a new study, one of a collection of papers published on Wednesday in the journal Nature Mental Health. They are the first publications based on the inaugural wave…

I was impressed with how Coruscant is depicted in these episodes. The rich and glamorous Coruscant — where the galaxy’s most powerful mingle — is on display here, as society’s elite gather for the annual party season, celebrating the Senate’s new members. But we also see another side of the planet, as Cassian and Bix lay low in Luthen’s safe house, a bare-bones high-rise apartment in one of the city’s more quotidian corners.The views through their windows are spectacular, but the surrounding neighborhoods are grayer and colder, filled with funky little markets and the Coruscant version of bodegas. It feels…