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Japan’s Nikkei 225 hit a record high Thursday, powered by banking, electronics and consumer stocks as robust earnings and investor-friendly measures fuel a blistering rally in Japanese equities this year. The Nikkei 225 jumped nearly 2% to hit 39,029, surpassing the previous record high of 38,915.87 reached in 1989. Both the Nikkei …

BEIJING — Two people are dead after a massive container ship crashed into a bridge south of the city of Guangzhou in southern China early Thursday, causing a section of the roadway to come crashing down along with vehicles. Three people are missing, and two have been rescued. One person …

NFL star Travis Kelce arrived Thursday in Australia, where girlfriend Taylor Swift is performing a series of sold-out concerts as part of the international leg of her record-breaking Eras Tour. Aerial footage provided to NBC News by Channel Seven Australia showed the Kansas City Chiefs player emerging from a Bombardier …

Federal prosecutors in New York on Wednesday said they charged a Japanese Yakuza leader with conspiring to traffic nuclear materials from Myanmar to other countries in the belief that they would be used by Iran to make a nuclear weapon. The accused gangster, Takeshi Ebisawa, “and his confederates showed samples …

LOS ANGELES — A Minnesota man has been arrested on suspicion of killing a 31-year-old woman who was beaten, bound and stuffed inside the refrigerator at her Los Angeles apartment, authorities said Wednesday. Magnus Daniel Humphrey, 41, who was on probation for narcotics offenses, was taken into custody at his …

WASHINGTON — The Teamsters union’s political action committee donated $45,000 to the Republican National Committee’s convention fund in January, according to federal election commission disclosures. The Teamsters PAC’s donations overwhelmingly go toward Democrats, but the $45,000 donation marks the first significant donation to the RNC in years. The fund is …

The parents of slain New York woman Gabby Petito say they have reached a settlement in their suit against the parents of Brian Laundrie, the man who admitted responsibility for her death, as well as his parents’ attorney. Details of the resolution of the emotional distress case were not disclosed. …

Meghan McCain, daughter of the late Arizona Sen. John McCain, eviscerated GOP Senate hopeful Kari Lake and seemed to put her support behind one of Lake’s likely opponents ahead of the 2024 Senate race.  Asked whether she would accept an apology from Lake for her previous remarks repeatedly disparaging the …

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“You have done nothing wrong and I’m so proud of you for standing up for your rights,” she added. George, a junior at Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu, has been in in-school suspension or at an off-site disciplinary program for most of the school year. His ordeal started …

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama is seeking to put a second inmate to death using nitrogen gas, a move that comes a month after the state carried out the first execution using the controversial new method. Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall’s office asked the state Supreme Court on Wednesday to set an execution …

Authorities in Oklahoma will release video from inside the school where the family of an LGBTQ student said the teen was attacked and assaulted in a bathroom one day before their death, police said Wednesday. Hallway cameras inside Owasso High School West Campus show the student, Nex Benedict, before and …

WEST LIVINGSTON, Texas ― Ivan Cantu is aware that he’s running out of time. He clings to the black phone receiver at the prison and fights to make himself heard before a world that 24 years ago sentenced him to death for two murders that, he claims, he didn’t commit. …

North Carolina’s more than 135 death row inmates could potentially see their sentences changed to life in prison in the wake of a landmark hearing scheduled to begin next week that will test whether racial discrimination has played a role in jury selection in capital cases. The lead case focuses …

HONG KONG — A congressional delegation led by Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., is visiting Taiwan this week in a show of support for the Beijing-claimed island democracy. Gallagher, the head of the House select committee on competition with China, arrived in Taipei on Thursday with four other lawmakers as part …

Deals on vehicles and jewelry through a U.S. government auction website were a steal in more ways than one: An Oklahoma man pleaded guilty to hacking a website to buy the items for $1 each, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. Coker bought vehicles and jewelry in 2019 through web auctions held …

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that Republicans’ subpoena of voter information after the 2020 election was unenforceable, overturning a previous court ruling. The commonwealth’s highest court ruled in Wednesday’s brief order that the subpoena was unenforceable because the 2021-22 legislative session had already ended. The move is the …

A New York state man pleaded guilty Wednesday in the kidnapping of a 9-year-old girl from an upstate park, which set off a frantic two-day search for the child last year, officials said. Craig Ross Jr. pleaded guilty in a Saratoga County courtroom in a deal that will send him …

WASHINGTON — The National Association of Secretaries of State Winter Conference is usually a cordial affair. It’s one of two occasions every year in which top election officials from most states gather to commiserate and share nonpartisan advice. But at this year’s conference, West Virginia Secretary of State Mac Warner …

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