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The Bank of England voiced cautious optimism Thursday about the U.K.’s economic outlook in the wake of a sharp fall in coronavirus infections and the rapid rollout of the nation’s COVID-19 vaccination program.

It’s showtime! AMC Theatres says it will have 98% of its U.S. movie theaters open on Friday as a bunch of theaters reopen in California. Even more theaters are expected to open by March 26.

A decommissioned eastern Iowa nuclear plant could become the site of a new massive solar energy project.

An exceptionally rare 15th century Ming Dynasty porcelain bowl made in China that somehow turned up at a Connecticut yard sale and sold for just $35 was auctioned off Wednesday for nearly $722,000.

The Hawaiian island of Kauai, one of the world’s most sought-after vacation destinations, has been nearly impossible to visit for most of the past year.Local officials kept quarantine rules in place - even as the state’s economy, dependent largely on tourism, tanked.

Imported American beef in Japan has proved so popular it’s topped the annual limits called “safeguards,” and the U.S. Meat Export Federation on Thursday urged Tokyo to raise the threshold.

Storms that left splintered homes and broken trees across Alabama and Mississippi moved into Georgia and Florida on Thursday, rousing residents with early morning warnings as forecasters said the threat of dangerous weather would move up the south Atlantic seaboard.

Our solar system’s first known interstellar visitor is neither a comet nor asteroid as first suspected and looks nothing like a cigar. A new study says the mystery object is likely a remnant of a Pluto-like world and shaped like a cookie.

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