The gap the between the goods and services the U.S. sells other countries and what it buys from them narrowed to just over $901 billion from $904 billion in 2024, the Commerce Department reported.

Six others from the same group of skiers were rescued Tuesday. They were on a three-day trek in Northern California’s Sierra Nevada as a monster winter storm pummeled the West Coast.

Tuesday’s avalanche was the nation’s deadliest in nearly half a century.