Juliette is the 10th tropical storm of the Eastern Pacific season, the National Hurricane Center said on Monday.

China spent $21 billion on military exercises in the Taiwan Strait, the East and South China Sea and the Western Pacific last year, nearly 40% higher than 2023, according to Taiwan government estimates based on its tracking of aircraft and ships and working out the cost of fuel and other expenses.

Research by the University of Southampton and University of East Anglia (UEA) shows a major shift in South Pacific climate conditions—beginning around 1,000 years ago—that may have pushed people to settle further east and move away from increasingly drier conditions in the west.

It’s a story of three brothers, a boat and thousands of miles of ocean. The Maclean brothers from Scotland are in the final stretch of their attempt to row nonstop across the Pacific from Peru to Australia.

The American destroyer USS Higgins simulated an expeditionary reload of a Standard Missile-2 last month.

The Bob Baffert-trained 4-year-old, sharp again after a long layoff, faces Journalism, Fierceness and 1¼ miles for the first time in Saturday’s $1M showdown.

The landfill closed in 1978. The garbage, 100 feet deep in some places, was covered with dirt roughly 4 feet thick. A barrier of boulders was built along part of the beach to slow erosion. The property became a public park where today people hike and fish. The history is fading. But the garbage remains.

Preakness Stakes hero Journalism will square off against Nysos and Fierceness, two of the top older horses in the country, in Saturday’s $1 million Grade 1 Pacific Classic. FanDuel TV will be live on-site from Del Mar with live,

Five of the eight runners have combined for exactly one graded-stakes victory, but Fierceness, Journalism and Nysos are all in the top seven of the Breeders’ Cup Classic rankings.

Freight railroad Canadian Pacific Kansas City opposes Union Pacific’s and Norfolk Southern’s proposed $71.5 billion merger, saying it will result in a disproportionately larg

Russia and China have conducted their first-ever joint submarine patrol in the Pacific, according to reports in state-run media.