BANGKOK — Japan’s exports surged almost 10% in December from a year earlier, helped by a revival in trade with China and strong demand for vehicles, machinery and computer chips. Imports fell almost 7%, leaving a trade surprise of 62 billion yen ($410 million), according to preliminary customs data released Wednesday. A weak Japanese yen…
BANGKOK — Asian shares were mixed on Wednesday after Japan reported its exports jumped nearly 10% in December, though shares in Tokyo declined. U.S. futures and oil prices edged higher. Chinese shares resumed their upward climb after the vice chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, Wang Jiangjun, called for better protections for investors and…
Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night’s highlights that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. Here are the 50 best movies on Netflix right now. Huge in New Hampshire The New Hampshire Republican primary took place on Tuesday, kicking off in the township of…
Valencia ended West Ranch’s 45-game Foothill League boys’ basketball win streak Tuesday. Stacy Webb delivered a 69-67 victory by making a layup with one second left. Bryce Bedgood scored 25 points and had 15 rebounds. Webb added 15 points. Windward 67, Viewpoint 36: The Wildcats are close to being a Southern Section Open Division playoff…
HBO is renting out one of its most valuable series to Netflix. Every season of “Sex and the City,” the HBO comedy that aired from 1998 to 2004, will begin streaming on Netflix for the first time in early April, according to three people familiar with the deal. HBO had a longstanding policy of not…
Russell Westbrook couldn’t work his right foot into his black Jordans late in the first quarter Tuesday, but the play had to go on. He dribbled to the left, one sneaker and one sock touching the court, and swished home the three. In this latest edition of the Lakers and Clippers, even the most ridiculous…
Soon after the journalist and historian Valérie Igounet heard about the killing of Samuel Paty, the schoolteacher whose 2020 murder by an Islamist extremist shocked France, she knew she wanted to write a book about him. Paty, who had shown caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad to students during a class on freedom of expression, was…
Rhys Hoskins and the Milwaukee Brewers have agreed to a $34 million, two-year contract, filling the team’s opening at first base. A person familiar with the move confirmed it to The Associated Press on Tuesday night on condition of anonymity because the deal was pending a physical. Milwaukee won the NL Central last year with…
Angel City made it to the playoffs in its second NWSL season last year. But the roster that will take the training field to start the team’s third season Wednesday will be a lot different than the one it used in that postseason loss in Seattle three months ago. Gone are midfielders Savannah McCaskill and…
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Lila Higgo had modest expectations as a freshman swimmer in a new country. She wanted to get better as a swimmer but didn’t hold any outlandish expectations when she arrived at Bolles from the Cayman Islands. Bolles is Bolles after all, a swimming institution so storied that swimmers from across the world…
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