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HONG KONG — Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit Russia early next week to hold talks with President Vladimir Putin, a trip that will showcase the growing closeness between the two countries as tensions escalate with the United States. Xi will pay a state visit to Moscow from Monday to Wednesday at Putin’s invitation, …

The Republican chairman of the House Oversight Committee published a memo Thursday alleging that Hunter Biden and at least two relatives were paid $1.3 million from an associate of the president’s son who had links to a Chinese energy company. They are alleged to have been paid after the associate, …

A group of financial institutions has agreed to deposit $30 billion in First Republic Bank in what’s meant to be a sign of confidence in the banking system, the banks announced Thursday afternoon. Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Citigroup and JPMorgan Chase will contribute about $5 billion apiece, while Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley will …

The Fulton County special grand jury heard a phone call between former President Donald Trump and Georgia House Speaker David Ralston as part of its investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia, the jury’s foreperson, Emily Kohrs, told NBC News on Wednesday. During the December call, …

LOS ANGELES — Cafeteria workers, bus drivers and other workers for the Los Angeles Unified School District will go on a three-day strike next week, and their union says tens of thousands of teachers have vowed not to cross picket lines. The strike at the country’s second-largest school district is …

For the first time in three decades, the U.S. has a new favorite dog breed, according to the American Kennel Club. Adorable in some eyes, deplorable in others, the sturdy, push-faced, perky-eared, world-weary-looking and distinctively droll French bulldog became the nation’s most prevalent purebred dog last year, the club announced …

Is the metaverse on the way to “Sesame Street”? Some fans of the beloved TV series criticized Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit organization behind the show, after it announced it would offer 5,555 editions of Cookie Monster NFT collectibles. Critics on social media said the decision to launch an NFT collection …

The Kremlin has warned the United States to cease “hostile” activity near its borders and said it would seek to retrieve the wreckage of the American drone that crashed into the Black Sea after a dramatic encounter with Russian fighter jets. Kyiv said Wednesday that the incident — the first …

A major winter storm dumped more than a foot of snow on parts of the Northeast, knocking out power at one point to more than 250,000 customers, and more snow was on the way, forecasters said Tuesday. No deaths have been reported in the nor’easter that has been hitting New …

A special prosecutor in the involuntary manslaughter case against actor Alec Baldwin announced her resignation Tuesday, weeks after Baldwin’s legal team said her participation was unconstitutional. In a statement, Andrea Reeb, who is also a New Mexico state representative, said that the decision to step down from the “Rust” prosecution …