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Richard Plaud’s matchstick dreams have been rekindled. Earlier this week the Frenchman was crestfallen when he was told his 23ft model of the Eiffel Tower — made from 700,000 matchsticks over 8 years — could not officially be called a world record because he had used the wrong matches. But …

ROME — Buried in ash after Mount Vesuvius’ cataclysmic eruption in 79 A.D., hundreds of papyrus scrolls have kept their secrets hidden for centuries. But archeologists have now been able to decipher some of the ancient text with the help of artificial intelligence. Discovered in the ruins of a villa …

A 20-year-old college student and musician was injured by an errant bullet fired from the apartment next door into her bedroom this week. Daria Tolokonnikova, who lives with her grandmother in downtown San Diego, was sat on her bed studying just before 7 p.m. PT (10 p.m. ET) Tuesday when …

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un restated he has no desire for diplomacy with South Korea and that the North would annihilate its rival if provoked, state media said Friday, in the latest of his belligerent statements that are raising tensions in the region. During a visit to North Korea’s …

Israel launches new air strikes on overcrowded Rafah Israel bombed targets in overcrowded Rafah this morning, hours after Biden administration officials warned Israel against expanding its Gaza ground offensive to the southern city where more than half of the territory’s 2.3 million people have sought refuge. Airstrikes hit two residential …

Voters are delivering a poor assessment of President Joe Biden’s job performance as he and former President Donald Trump prepare for a 2024 rematch. They are also looking back more fondly than before on Trump’s tenure in office. Just 14% of registered voters say Biden has done a better job …

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Lakers unveiled a statue of Kobe Bryant on Thursday, honoring their late superstar with a 19-foot bronze likeness outside their downtown arena. The 4,000-pound statue depicts Bryant in his white No. 8 jersey with his right index finger raised as he walked off the …

Swiss police say a 32-year-old Iranian asylum-seeker was killed by police after he used an axe and a knife to seize more than a dozen hostages for several hours on a train in western Switzerland. No passengers were injured. The man took the hostages early Thursday evening and police, alerted …

Queen Camilla said Thursday that King Charles III is doing well given his cancer diagnosis, adding that he has been touched by the messages of support he’s received from the public. Camilla traveled from Sandringham House to Salisbury Cathedral on Thursday to attend a concert celebrating the work of local charities. …

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LAS VEGAS — Former President Donald Trump easily won the Nevada caucuses on Thursday, NBC News projects, the fourth contest he has captured on his march to the GOP nomination. It was a glide path for Trump, who faced no major competition in the caucuses after most of his opponents …

Russian President Vladimir Putin gave a more than two-hour interview to former Fox News host Tucker Carlson that was released online Thursday, covering a variety of topics, from Ukraine to the Russian economy, but breaking little new ground. Putin told Carlson that Russia has not achieved its war aims in …

Authorities in Georgia have closed an investigation into a mysterious pair of fatal shootings that left three people dead, including two close friends who were gunned down in front of their home-office and a neighbor whose body was found days later, police said Thursday. Columbus Police Department Det. Anthony Locey …

A robotic device burned and tore a woman’s small intestine while she was receiving surgery for colon cancer, according to a wrongful death lawsuit filed this week in Florida. The woman, Sandra Sultzer, developed abdominal pain and fever after her September 2021 surgery and needed additional procedures to close the …

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A grand jury indicted seven people linked to an attack last month on two police officers in New York’s Times Square that was captured on video, Manhattan’s top prosecutor announced Thursday. Five of the defendants indicted, whose names have been released, face felony charges. Four of them face charges of …

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is set to deliver remarks Thursday night, though the White House did not provide any details on the subject of his speech. No remarks were listed for his schedule Thursday. Instead, they were added in the evening. Biden’s appearance come hours after special counsel Robert …

Some 100 people — Black and white, from elementary school-aged children to adults in their 80s — filed into the Agape Perfecting Praise and Worship Center in Orlando in October. They were there for a lesson in Black history from LaVon Bracy, the director of democracy at Faith in Florida, …

A Baltimore man has been sentenced years after he was accused of targeting several Asian American businesses with violence and of attempting to murder two of the business owners.  Darryl Doles, 53, was given a life sentence with all but 30 years suspended Wednesday after he pleaded guilty to attempted …

Former President Donald Trump has won the Republican caucuses in the U.S. Virgin Islands, NBC News projects, continuing his dominant march toward the GOP presidential nomination. The victory is Trump’s third in as many contests — following the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary — and deals another loss …