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Stock markets threw a tantrum Tuesday, posting big losses after slightly hotter-than-expected inflation data stoked worries that interest rate cuts may not be coming soon. But don’t freak out. Markets tend to overreact. January’s consumer price index report is just one number in an overall trend that has been moving …

Video captured two passengers in a fistfight Monday on a Southwest flight bound for Hawaii. The incident happened on a plane leaving out of Oakland, California, and the two men were detained, NBC Bay Area reported. The video shows a man in a baseball cap standing in the aisle of …

Wildfires, deforestation and global warming could permanently destroy the water cycle that sustains parts of the Amazon rainforest if action is not taken in the coming decades, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature. The study suggests that 10% to 47% of the landscape is at risk …

Jason Kelce shared that his brother, Travis Kelce, had to move from his Kansas City home for “safety reasons” after his relationship with pop star Taylor Swift started. The topic came up during the Philadelphia Eagles’ conversation with Shaquille O’Neal on the Feb. 12 episode of “The Big Podcast with Shaq.” Jason …

TOKYO — Activists and LGBTQ community members handed out colorful chocolate candy for Valentine’s Day in Tokyo on Wednesday, marking the fifth anniversary of the launch of a legal battle to achieve marriage equality for same-sex couples. Japan is the only member of the Group of Seven nations that still excludes same-sex …

William “Bill” Post, the man credited with inventing the iconic toaster pastry Pop-Tarts, has died at 96. Post worked as the plant manager for the Michigan-based Hekman Biscuit Company, later known as Keebler Company, when Kellogg’s asked the company to create a new breakfast product. The Pop-Tarts inventor began his …

Three police officers in Washington, D.C., were shot and injured Wednesday morning and the suspect remains barricaded in a house. A fourth officer had minor injured but was not shot, sources told NBC Washington. The shooting reportedly began after police went to a home in the 5000 block of Hanna …

Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., urged Democrats to go on offense on the border and immigration in a memo Wednesday to party members, citing New York Democrat Tom Suozzi’s victory in the special election for former GOP Rep. George Santos’ seat in the Long Island-based 3rd Congressional District. Murphy, who served …

Three South Carolina sheriff’s deputies have been charged with misconduct after they allegedly reported five “hoax emergencies” about finding a dead body while on duty, officials announced Tuesday. Chesterfield County Sheriff Cambo Streater said he learned about “possible misconduct by three of our deputies” last week.  “Based on the nature …

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A man wanted in Massachusetts to face murder charges was has been rearrested a week after he dramatically escaped from police custody, Kenyan police said Wednesday. Kevin Adam Kinyanjui Kangethe escaped while awaiting extradition on a Massachusetts warrant alleging he killed his girlfriend and left her body in a car at …

Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley defended her past support of Donald Trump while deepening her criticism of her main rival for the GOP nomination, arguing that the former president is “more diminished than he was.” In an interview Tuesday with “TODAY” co-host Craig Melvin, Haley made a generational argument for …

Democrats win back disgraced former Rep. George Santos’ seat. A verdict in Donald Trump’s civil fraud case is expected this week. And scientists are worried as Greenland gets greener. Here’s what to know today. What we learned from the special election to replace George Santos New York’s 3rd District has …

NATO said on Wednesday that Europe had increased its spending on defense and the United States needed allies, days after former President Donald Trump suggested that Washington might not protect countries that did not spend enough. “I expect 18 allies to spend 2% of their GDP on defense this year,” …

Indonesia’s Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto, a former army general, appears to have an early unofficial lead in the race to become the country’s next president, “quick counts” show after voting in the world’s third-largest democracy closed on Wednesday. Prabowo appears to have won a simple majority of ballots cast in …

Israeli minister calls for action in the north after at least 1 killed, 7 injured by rockets fired from Lebanon Rockets fired into Israel from Lebanon killed one person and injured at least seven, emergency services said today — a rare deadly attack on the country’s north during its war …

“People being in that building is extremely dangerous,” Bass told NBC 4 LA. “I guarantee you tragedy will take place there if that place is not boarded up quickly,” The towers are being monitored 24 hours a day by police patrols, after it emerged that 30 floors of the towers …

Most elections fit in one of two categories: a referendum on one person, party or idea or a choice among competing people, parties or ideas. Whether an election ends up being more of a referendum or more of a choice between two equally compelling (or repellent) candidates usually depends on …

LOVELAND, Colo. — Love is in the air … and the mail … in the northern Colorado city of Loveland. Every year, tens of thousands of people from around the world route their Valentine’s Day cards to the “Sweetheart City” to get a special inscription and the coveted Loveland postmark. …

Ukraine’s military said Wednesday it sank a Russian landing ship in the Black Sea using naval drones, a report that has not been confirmed by Russian forces. The Caesar Kunikov amphibious ship sank near Alupka, a city on the southern edge of the Crimean Peninsula that Moscow annexed in 2014, …