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BEIJING — China missed fourth-quarter GDP estimates on Wednesday, while it resumed reporting the unemployment rate for young people. The National Bureau of Statistics said that excluding people still in school, the unemployment rate for young people ages 16 to 24 was 14.9%, while the unemployment rate in cities in …

DAVOS, Switzerland — For the last few years at the World Economic Forum cryptocurrency firms dominated the main strip in Davos, promoting their wares. But in 2024, artificial intelligence has taken over. Some of the world’s biggest companies are pushing their AI products and services with one declaring: “The future …

Jimmy Donaldson, the YouTuber known as MrBeast, is used to evaluating the value of different products in his videos. Now, he’s putting another comparison to the test: X vs. YouTube. Donaldson uploaded his first video directly to X on Monday, a reupload of his YouTube video “$1 vs $100,000,000 Car!” …

A new dynamic is unfolding in the presidential primaries with both Donald Trump’s and Nikki Haley’s campaigns shifting to one-on-one combat as the race charges to the next phase with an expected competitive contest in New Hampshire. It could get ugly fast. Team Trump is readying to unleash a level …

DES MOINES, Iowa — Donald Trump has won the Iowa caucuses, NBC News projects, cementing his firm status as the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination. Trump, who is aiming to be the first former president since Grover Cleveland in the 1890s to return to office after losing re-election to …

A half-dozen people in Missouri that were reported missing in August are believed to have been lured into a cult led by a convicted child molester, police said. The cult in question is led by Rashad Jamal, who is currently serving an 18-year prison sentence in Georgia after he was …

GALLOWAY, N.J. — A New Jersey man who became a vocal advocate for families of 9/11 first responders following the death of his NYPD officer son was struck and killed by an SUV in a hospital parking lot, police said Sunday. Joseph Zadroga, 76, of Little Egg Harbor, was the …

Two Navy SEALs are missing after falling into rough, nighttime seas while raiding a small ship off the coast of Somalia, two U.S. defense officials told NBC News. The SEALs were trying to climb into a type of small boat known as a dhow Thursday night when one of them …

GUATEMALA CITY — Guatemalan President-elect Bernardo Arévalo waited to be sworn into office Sunday as the old-guard Congress dawdled and delayed the inauguration, sparking angry protests by demonstrators tired of months-long attempts to keep him from taking office. Supporters who had been waiting hours for a festive inauguration celebration in Guatemala City’s …

After losing his wife, 15-year-old son, 7-year-old daughter and a grandson in Israeli airstrikes since Oct. 7, Al Jazeera Gaza bureau chief Wael Al Dahdouh has come to embody the painful personal sacrifices that have come with covering Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip. “The cost is very high, but …