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Mark Zuckerberg’s superyacht is at the center of a dispute that mixes wealth, optics, and a very small boat in Alaska.

Quick Take A skiff ran out of fuel near Petersburg and Juneau, and a cruise ship towed it to safety. Later coverage said Zuckerberg’s yacht, Launchpad, was closer but did not answer the call for help. The Coast Guard said the skiff was not in immediate d...

Typhoon Dolphin slammed into China’s eastern coast and set off a fast chain of evacuations, flight cuts, and flood warnings.

Quick Take Reuters said Typhoon Dolphin made landfall near Yuhuan in eastern Zhejiang province around 5:30 p.m. local time. China’s meteorological authorities put the storm’s peak landfall wind speed at 42 meters per second, or 151 kilometers per h...

One New Jersey police detail turned a roadside bush into a traffic stop machine, and it wrote 74 cellphone tickets in six hours.

Quick Take Dunellen police said one officer dressed like a shrub to catch handheld cellphone use. The six-hour detail on North Washington Avenue ended with 74 citations. Police said they chose a busy, pedestrian-heavy downtown stretch for safet...

Federal and state officials say 19 people were charged in Pennsylvania for a home health care fraud scheme that led to more than $4 million in false claims.

Quick Take Officials announced criminal charges against 19 defendants tied to home health care fraud in Pennsylvania. The Justice Department said the alleged scheme involved more than $4 million in Medicare and Medic...

Hunter Biden’s new comments put Joe Biden’s cancer back in the spotlight, with the family saying the disease has spread and caused serious pain.

Quick Take Hunter Biden said his father’s prostate cancer has “metastasized into his bones and further.” He described the illness as “very painful” and “very debilitating in many respects.” Reporting in multiple outlets says the...