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A B.C. pilot now has a remarkable survival story to tell after ditching his small plane in the ocean off the Baja Peninsula. Mike MacDonald had been hired to fly over the Gulf of California with a marine biologist to look for wildlife last weekend.“Our job is to go out there and spot the animals, identify them, mark them, mark their location, and which direction they’re headed,” he told Global News.But about three hours into a four-hour tour, his engine suddenly quit and he realized he couldn’t make it to land.“My colleague there thought I was playing some sick prank,…

Sorely missed in their loss to Adelaide, GWS star Jesse Hogan has made a swift recovery from a calf injury and is set to play against the Western Bulldogs.

SEOUL: South Korean prosecutors have indicted former president Moon Jae-in for alleged bribery, a prosecution office spokesperson said on Thursday (Apr 24), in a case related to the appointment of his former son-in-law at a Thai airline. Moon was indicted for bribery, while former lawmaker Lee Sang-jik was indicted for bribery and breach of trust, Jeonju District Prosecutors’ Office said in a statement. Prosecutors had been investigating whether Lee’s appointment as the head of an SMEs and Startups Agency was in exchange for Moon’s former son-in-law getting a job and receiving a salary at the Thai-based corporation that Lee controlled…

Janet Robertson had few choices after being evicted from her apartment of two decades in Vancouver, Canada’s most expensive city.Even listings in nearby suburbs were out of reach after years of paying 900 Canadian dollars, or $650, monthly for her studio apartment. She kept going until she could find something she could afford and ended up renting in a town about 60 miles east of Vancouver.“I really didn’t have any other options but to come to Chilliwack,” Ms. Robertson said.Chilliwack, a farming community encircled by snow-capped peaks, was once looked down on by city dwellers because of its rural and…

President Trump’s job approval rating has fallen steadily during his first three months in office, according to a New York Times average of polling.Mr. Trump’s approval rating has sunk to about 45 percent, down from 52 percent one week after he took office. Around half of the country now disapproves of his performance, the polling shows.American presidents typically enter office with a groundswell of support that wanes over time. But Mr. Trump’s approval has been dropping slightly faster than his predecessors.Mr. Trump started his term with the second-lowest approval rating for a president in modern history. The only recent president…

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. escalated his war against the food industry on Tuesday, declaring that “sugar is poison.”Mr. Kennedy’s comment came during a highly publicized news conference where he also asserted that he has “an understanding” with major food manufacturers to remove petroleum-based food colorings from their products by 2026.No one from the food industry attended the event, and none have publicly agreed to Mr. Kennedy’s demands, although the International Dairy Foods Association has pledged to eliminate artificial colors in milk, cheese and yogurt sold to schools as part of the federal lunch and breakfast programs by the…

For more than a century and a half, Central Park has been a leafy barometer of New York’s shifting fortunes. Projecting the city’s vast ambitions and ideals in the 19th century, it morphed into a Hooverville during the Depression, becoming a beehive of ball fields and “Be-Ins” during the 1960s.A decade later it was a lawless dust bowl, the poster child for urban decline. “An unattended Frankenstein,” one city parks commissioner called it.Restoring Central Park’s glory has been a labor of decades, its maintenance an endless task. But the $160 million Davis Center, opening to the public Saturday, is a…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! John Goodman isn’t ready to say goodbye to one of his most iconic characters.In a recent interview with People, the 72-year-old actor shared how he is coping with “The Conners” coming to an end and saying goodbye to Dan Conner, a character he began playing nearly 40 years ago.”It’s really hard,” he told the outlet. “It’s something I’m going to miss for a while. I’m old and resistant to change.”Goodman first started playing Dan Conner in 1988 on the hit show “Roseanne,” which ran for nine seasons before it aired its final…

A former U.S. Army intelligence analyst was sentenced to seven years in prison on Wednesday for giving sensitive military information to a person he believed was affiliated with the Chinese government.Korbein Schultz, 25, of Wills Point, Texas, pleaded guilty in August 2024 to conspiring to collect and transmit national defense information, unlawfully exporting controlled information to China, and accepting bribes in exchange for sensitive, non-public U.S. government information.From May 2022 until his arrest in March 2024, Schultz engaged in an ongoing conspiracy to provide dozens of sensitive U.S. military documents — many of which contained export-controlled tactical and technical information…

Stephen Fuhr’s campaign office filled with supporters Wednesday afternoon as a former B.C. premier officially endorsed the Liberal candidate running in the Kelowna riding. “When Stephen was your member of parliament he delivered a lot,” former Liberal premier Christy Clark told an enthusiastic group of supporters.Clark, who served as premier between 2011 and 2017, said she believes Fuhr is the best person for the job to represent Kelowna’s interests in Ottawa.“I worked with him in the past when I represented West Kelowna,” Clark said. “He delivered $25 million for West Kelowna’s water treatment. When you think about the region, he…