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Ed Sheeran astonished shoppers in Minneapolis, Minnesota, by working a shift in a Lego Store. The British musician has staged a number of impromptu gigs while touring the U.S. in addition to official dates like the one he played at the city’s U.S. Bank Stadium on Saturday. Before the main concert, Ed stopped off at […]

What to Know The Dominican Day Parade 2023 will take place on Sunday, Aug. 13 on Sixth Avenue from 37th to 52nd street starting at noon until 4 p.m. For the first time in the event’s history, the country’s president will be in attendance. NBC 4 and Telemundo 47 will be sponsoring this year’s celebration. […]

RUSTON, LA. — With field temperatures soaring above 150 degrees at times, 10-year-old baseball player Emmitt Anderson and his teammates from Alabama thought better of kneeling when they gathered near the mound for pregame prayers at a recent regional youth baseball tournament here. “It was too hot on our knees,” Anderson said of the artificial […]

WASHINGTON — The U.S. government said Friday it will spend up to $1.2 billion for two pioneering facilities to vacuum carbon out of the air, a historic gamble on a still developing technology to combat global warming that is criticized by some experts. The two projects — in Texas and Louisiana — each aim to eliminate […]

WASHINGTON — U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland has appointed David Weiss, the Delaware U.S. attorney leading the investigation into President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, as special counsel in the case, Garland announced Friday. The surprise announcement came as prosecutors disclosed in a court filing Friday that plea talks with Biden’s defense team have reached “an […]

WASHINGTON — IPVM, a U.S.-based security and surveillance industry research group, says the Chinese surveillance equipment maker Dahua is selling cameras with what it calls a “skin color analytics” feature in Europe, raising human rights concerns. In a report released on July 31, IPVM said “the company defended the analytics as being a ‘basic feature […]

AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND — Sweden first knocked off the United States and then bounced Japan to snag a spot in the semifinals of the Women’s World Cup. The Swedes, the World Cup runners-up in 2003 and three-time third-place finishers, eliminated previously unbeaten Japan 2-1 in Friday’s quarterfinal. With Japan out of the lineup, this year’s World […]

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA — Flights and trains resumed and power was mostly restored Friday after a tropical storm blew through South Korea, which was preparing a pop concert for 40,000 Scouts whose global Jamboree was disrupted by the weather. Much of Khanun’s damage was concentrated in the country’s southern and eastern regions, where several cities and […]

LONDON — Russia launched its first mission to the moon in nearly 50 years on Friday, racing to land on the lunar south pole before a spacecraft from India gets there. The launch of the Luna-25 craft to the moon was Russia’s first since 1976, when it was part of the Soviet Union, and is being […]

SYDNEY — A new generation of stars has emerged at the Women’s World Cup. While the likes of Brazil’s Marta, Canada’s Christine Sinclair and America’s Megan Rapinoe have played in the tournament for the last time, there is a rich flow of talent coming through to take their places. “We are on the cusp, and what […]