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Mass. communities bracing for more rain after flooding damaged homes, businesses

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:13:41 GMT

Several Massachusetts communities rocked by flooding earlier this summer are bracing for more downpours this morning as crews continue to assess the damage.In North Andover, where businesses were forced to close after water rushed in last week, town officials declared a State of Emergency. Business owners and residents there have been asked to prepare damage reports for funding for repairs. 7’s weather team is predicting downpours and possible severe weather for Friday’s morning commute.Stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest details.

Douglas police seeking help after overturned kayak found in local reservoir

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:13:41 GMT

Douglas police are turning to the public for help after an overturned kayak was found in a local reservoir.In a post on social media, police say the kayak was found on the big side of the Whitin Reservoir.Anyone with information is urged to call 508-476-3333.This is a developing news story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest details.

Howie Carr: Bidenomics triggers shrinkflation

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:13:41 GMT

I filled up my car on the lower Cape Tuesday night. The price was $3.93 a gallon.You know what I call that? A bargain!Because Bidenomics is working, dammit. That’s all they’re talking about in state-run media, how the US economy is just plain humming. It’s mourning, er morning again in America.Because of inflation, the average American family is spending $709 a month more than in January 2021, so let the good times roll, baby.Someone on the hard-left network known as MSDNC says that Brandon should run for re-election on his inflation numbers. The most recent national poll showed that the regime’s economic policies have 36% approval.Raising the obvious question, who are these 36% of the population who are happy?The far-left Democrats always have an excuse for gasoline prices. First it was the war in Ukraine, even though the largest jumps came before the Russians invaded. A few weeks ago, the far-left cable channels were blaming the hot summer, i.e., global warming.If Biden gets lucky...

Hurricane Hilary grows off Mexico and could reach California as a very rare tropical storm

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:13:41 GMT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hurricane Hilary grew rapidly to Category 4 strength off Mexico’s Pacific coast on Friday and could reach Southern California as the first tropical storm there in 84 years, causing “significant and rare impacts” including extensive flooding.The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Hilary had sustained winds near 145 mph (230 kph) at 4 a.m. and was expected to continue its rapid intensification through Friday before starting to weaken. It will nevertheless still be a hurricane when it approaches Mexico’s Baja California peninsula on Saturday night, and will approach Southern California on Sunday as a tropical storm.No tropical storm has made landfall in Southern California since Sept. 25, 1939, according to the National Weather Service. Early Friday, Hilary was centered about 400 miles (640 kilometers) south of Los Cabos on the southern tip of the Baja peninsula. It was moving west-northwest at 13 mph (20 kph), but was expected to turn gradually north through ...

China blasts US-Japan-South Korea summit, warns of ‘contradictions and increasing tensions’

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:13:41 GMT

BEIJING (AP) — China is renewing its criticism of this weekend’s summit among the leaders of the U.S., Japan and South Korea, saying no country should “seek its own security at the expense of the security interests of others and of regional peace and stability.” “The international community has its own judgment as to who is creating contradictions and increasing tensions,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin told reporters at a daily briefing Friday. “Attempts to form various exclusive groups and cliques and to bring bloc confrontation into the Asia-Pacific region are unpopular and will definitely spark vigilance and opposition in the countries of the region,” Wang said. The summit at the the rustic Camp David presidential retreat seeks to further tighten security and economic ties between Japan and South Korea, two nations whose historically frosty relations have rapidly thawed over the last year as they share concerns about China’s assertiveness in the Pacific and North Kore...

The latest news on the wildfires in the Northwest Territories

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:13:41 GMT

YELLOWKNIFE — Thousands of people have fled the Northwest Territories’ capital and some neighbouring communities under the threat of encroaching wildfires. Here are the latest developments (all times are MT): 4:35 a.m. Officials in the Northwest Territories are forecasting a critical, challenging day in the effort to battle wildfires threatening Yellowknife.  They say northwest winds today and Saturday combined with minimal rain could mean the fire reaches the city limits by the weekend. Officials say they are doing “everything possible” to slow the growth of the fire.Airtankers continued to fly missions overnight to keep open the highway out of Yellowknife, as officials urge residents to leave the city by noon today.—This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 18, 2023. The Canadian Press

Italian police arrest Dutch man, 21, over the stabbing deaths of his father and a family friend

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:13:41 GMT

MILAN (AP) — Italian police on Friday arrested a 21-year-old Dutch man suspected in the stabbing death of his father and a family friend in the countryside near the French border. An official from the Carabinieri paramilitary police confirmed the arrest. Italian media said the suspect was found hiding in the woods near where the attack occurred in the Cuneo province of Piedmont. He has been transported to the city of Cuneo aboard an ambulance . According to Italian news reports, the 21-year-old suspect is believed to suffer from psychiatric problems. The family friend, who was also Dutch, was reportedly hosting the father and son for a visit at his home when the attack occurred.The motive for the stabbings wasn’t immediately clear.The Associated Press

Former Austrian leader charged with giving false evidence to an inquiry

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:13:41 GMT

BERLIN (AP) — Austria’s former Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has been charged with making false statements to a parliamentary inquiry into a scandal that brought down his first government, prosecutors said Friday.An indictment against Kurz, his former chief of staff, Bernhard Bonelli, and another unidentified person was filed at the state court in Vienna, the prosecutors’ office that investigates corruption cases said in a statement. The court said Kurz will go on trial on Oct. 18. The charges result from an investigation that was launched in 2021, when Kurz was still chancellor. It centers on his testimony to a parliamentary probe that focused on alleged corruption in his first government, a coalition with the far-right Freedom Party which collapsed in 2019.Kurz pulled the plug on that government after a video surfaced showing the vice chancellor and Freedom Party leader at the time, Heinz-Christian Strache, appearing to offer favors to a purported Russian investor.In the c...

North Korea appears to be cracking opening its sealed border with dispatch of sports delegation

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:13:41 GMT

BEIJING (AP) — North Korea appears to have cracked open its borders in the first significant way since they were shut at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, with the impoverished nation sending a large group of taekwondo athletes and officials through Beijing to an international competition.The group of around 80 men and women wearing white track suits with the North Korean flag on the front were in the departure hall of Beijing’s international airport. They reportedly arrived Wednesday or Thursday. The group was expected to take an Air Astana flight to Kazakhstan to compete in the International Taekwon-do Federation World Championships, according to Japanese and South Korean media. The competition is being held in Astana through Aug. 30.North Korea has very limited air connections at the best of times, and international travel all but ended when it closed its borders to prevent the spread of COVID-19. How badly North Koreans were affected by the illness is unknown. Mo...

Firefighters battle through the night to halt wildfire in Spain’s popular tourist island of Tenerife

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:13:41 GMT

SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Canary Islands (AP) — Firefighters battled overnight to try to bring under control the worst wildfire in decades on the Spanish Canary Island of Tenerife, a major tourist destination, officials said Friday. The fire in the north of the island, which started late Tuesday, has forced the evacuation or confinement of nearly 8,000 people in eight municipalities.Television images and videos posted on social media showed the flames coming down the hill close to houses in small neighborhoods and a massive cloud of smoke rising from the area.The fire is located up in a pine wooded mountain area with several municipalities on its flanks, including Arafo and Candelaria to the east, and La Orotava to the west.Army captain Rafael San José told Spanish National Television that some progress had been made overnight in stopping the fire’s spread but that rising temperatures during the day would increase difficulties.The Canary Islands have been in drought for most of ...