5+ min ago (979+ words) HONG KONG'The death toll in Hong Kong's apartment complex blaze rose to 146 on Sunday as investigators discovered more bodies in the burned-out buildings. A steady stream of people placed bouquets of flowers at an ever-growing makeshift memorial at the scene of the disaster, among the worst in the city's history. The Hong Kong police Disaster Victim Identification Unit has been going through the buildings of the Wang Fuk Court complex meticulously and has found bodies in apartment units and on the roofs, said the officer in charge, Cheng Ka-chun. The buildings remain structurally sound, but the search has been slow, he told reporters, still wearing his white coveralls with his hard hat and respiratory mask at his side. "It is so dark inside, and because of the low light, it is very difficult to do the work, especially in places…...

16+ min ago (844+ words) President Donald Trump said Sunday that he has "great confidence" that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth did not give a spoken order to kill all crew members aboard a vessel suspected of smuggling drugs in the Caribbean Sea in September. Trump said Hegseth told him "he did not say that, and I believe him, 100 percent." During an attack on a boat on Sept. 2 " the opening salvo in the Trump administration's war on suspected drug traffickers in the Western Hemisphere " a live drone feed showed two survivors from an original crew of 11 clinging to the wreckage of their boat after an initial missile attack, The Post reported Friday afternoon. In order to comply with a spoken order from Hegseth to kill everyone, the Special Operations commander overseeing the mission ordered a second strike that killed the two survivors, according to two people…...

16+ min ago (844+ words) President Donald Trump said Sunday that he has "great confidence" that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth did not give a spoken order to kill all crew members aboard a vessel suspected of smuggling drugs in the Caribbean Sea in September. Trump said Hegseth told him "he did not say that, and I believe him, 100 percent." During an attack on a boat on Sept. 2 " the opening salvo in the Trump administration's war on suspected drug traffickers in the Western Hemisphere " a live drone feed showed two survivors from an original crew of 11 clinging to the wreckage of their boat after an initial missile attack, The Post reported Friday afternoon. In order to comply with a spoken order from Hegseth to kill everyone, the Special Operations commander overseeing the mission ordered a second strike that killed the two survivors, according to two people…...

18+ min ago (408+ words) A Hamas commander and three other terrorists equipped with a slain Israeli soldier's rifle were killed trying to escape a Gaza tunnel housing dozens of trapped operatives, the IDF said Sunday. The terrorists were spotted emerging from a tunnel under Israeli control in eastern Rafah early Sunday and taken out by nearby Israel Defense Force soldiers and the Israeli Air Force. Israeli Col. Arik Moyal appeared on social media to announce the attack, which killed the commander of Hamas' East Rafah Battalion, his deputy, a company commander and the son of senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad. Moyal is seen in the footage holding a Tavor assault rifle recovered from the slain terrorists, which he said belonged to Staff Sgt. Or Mizrahi, an IDF soldier killed during the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre, the Times of Israel reported. "This is what happens to those…...

22+ min ago (397+ words) A flight instructor and her student " a father-to-be and US Navy officer " are presumed dead after their plane plummeted into a New Orleans lake, according to authorities and reports. Taylor Dickey, 30, and her student, later identified as 30-year-old Navy Lt. David Michael Jahn, took off from Gulfport'Biloxi International Airport in a Cessna Skyhawk on Monday, the Coast Guard told WWL 4. The plane vanished from the flight radar at roughly 6:30 p.m., four miles north of New Orleans Lakefront Airport, the outlet said. There was no distress call from the aircraft, and it is not immediately clear who was in the pilot's seat when the plane crashed into Lake Pontchartrain, Michael Carastro, the owner of the flight school that owned the plane, said in a press conference on Tuesday. The impact of the plane into the lake was "very, very violent," Carastro added....

22+ min ago (397+ words) A flight instructor and her student " a father-to-be and US Navy officer " are presumed dead after their plane plummeted into a New Orleans lake, according to authorities and reports. Taylor Dickey, 30, and her student, later identified as 30-year-old Navy Lt. David Michael Jahn, took off from Gulfport'Biloxi International Airport in a Cessna Skyhawk on Monday, the Coast Guard told WWL 4. The plane vanished from the flight radar at roughly 6:30 p.m., four miles north of New Orleans Lakefront Airport, the outlet said. There was no distress call from the aircraft, and it is not immediately clear who was in the pilot's seat when the plane crashed into Lake Pontchartrain, Michael Carastro, the owner of the flight school that owned the plane, said in a press conference on Tuesday. The impact of the plane into the lake was "very, very violent," Carastro added....

29+ min ago (371+ words) An unusual grouping of bones was found near one of Scotland's'most iconic landmarks" and officials aren't sure how the bones got there. The remains were found on Crow Hill near Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh, a rise within Holyrood Park that overlooks Duddingston Loch and the Firth of Forth. Park rangers uncovered the bones during a routine patrol after'a wildfire burned'part of the park in August, according to Historic Environment Scotland (HES). The cause of the wildfire is still under investigation. Though the collection was found over the summer, officials did not disclose the discovery until November.' The curious collection of bones consists of several species, according to the HES, including "cattle, horse, sheep or goat and possibly even cat." The HES added, "The remains do not seem to have been part of a wider feature. However, the number and variety…...

33+ min ago (552+ words) Just days before a tense presidential election in Honduras, President Donald Trump threw himself into the center of the race. "It's an abomination," said a former Drug Enforcement Administration agent who worked on the Hern'ndez case and spoke on the condition of anonymity to speak freely about a sensitive case. "Ludicrous to even consider, much less actually go through with." Gustavo Ir'as, the executive director of the Center for Democracy Studies in Honduras, said Trump's action "distorts the fragile Honduran democracy and escalates to a new level the political polarization of the country and the risk of an institutional crisis." Hondurans began voting Sunday morning and are choosing between three candidates in what polls suggest is a close race: Asfura, the former mayor of Honduran capital Tegucigalpa; Rixi Moncada, a former defense minister aligned with the current leftist government; and…...

49+ min ago (903+ words) This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Maria Laposata, 32, the founder of travel consultancy Travelries. Her words have been edited for length and clarity. Life made me realize I needed a break. My husband and I had moved in together just before the pandemic, and our one-bedroom apartment in Los Angeles had become both our offices. We were making it work, but I could feel the walls closing in. We both love to travel, so in an effort to dream a little, I said, "Let's make a list of all the places we want to go." I'm a bit of a spreadsheet nerd, so I took his list and mine, ranked them, and combined them into one massive spreadsheet. It was my little form of stress relief. At the time, I was working on the operations team at…...

49+ min ago (903+ words) This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Maria Laposata, 32, the founder of travel consultancy Travelries. Her words have been edited for length and clarity. Life made me realize I needed a break. My husband and I had moved in together just before the pandemic, and our one-bedroom apartment in Los Angeles had become both our offices. We were making it work, but I could feel the walls closing in. We both love to travel, so in an effort to dream a little, I said, "Let's make a list of all the places we want to go." I'm a bit of a spreadsheet nerd, so I took his list and mine, ranked them, and combined them into one massive spreadsheet. It was my little form of stress relief. At the time, I was working on the operations team at…...