Dan Serafini, a former Major League Baseball player and key pitcher on the Lotte Marines’ 2005 Pacific League and Japan Series championship team, has been arrested on a murder charge in Nevada, U.S. media reported Friday. Serafini, 49, also faces an attempted murder charge in connection with the 2021 incident in which his wife’s father was fatally shot and his …
An executive and two former employees of WPP, one of the world’s biggest advertising companies, have been arrested in China, according to two people familiar with the situation. The arrests involved WPP’s GroupM media trading division and included a raid on offices in Shanghai, said the people, who asked not to be identified because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly. …
WASHINGTON – They are smooth white boxes, roughly the size of large cargo vans, and they are now at the heart of the U.S.-Chinese technology conflict. As the United States tries to slow China’s progress toward technological advances that could help its military, the complex lithography machines that print intricate circuitry on computer chips have become a key choke point. …
American voters in seven swing states are feeling the pain of rising prices for household essentials, according to a Bloomberg News and Morning Consult poll that points to trouble for President Joe Biden’s effort to make the economy a centerpiece of his bid for a second term. Three in four swing-state respondents said that prices have increased in the past …
As lawmakers around the world weigh bans of cancer-linked “forever chemicals,” many manufacturers are pushing back, saying there often is no substitute for the compounds. Minnesota and Maine have passed legislation to effectively outlaw the use of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, in nearly all products by the early 2030s. Dozens of other U.S. states are also considering curbing …
Former Prime Minister Naoto Kan, who led Japan’s immediate response to the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster, said Saturday he does not intend to run in the next general election, as he seeks to bring about a generational shift in politics. “I’m thinking about how to formalize my decision,” Kan, 77, currently the top adviser to the main opposition …
House Republicans have dispensed with Jim Jordan as their nominee for the U.S. speakership and now several more representatives are preparing to enter the fray. The new field began to take shape minutes after the party voted by secret ballot to rescind the nomination of Jordan, who had been endorsed by former President Donald Trump, to the leadership post. Republicans …
PARIS – Was a hospital in Gaza hit by Israeli fire? Or did it become the victim of a misfired Palestinian rocket? How many civilians were killed? Israelis and Palestinians have traded blame for the deadly strike on the Christian-run hospital this week. Reporters analyzed verified images and interviewed analysts and weapons experts who did not definitively rule out any …
BEIJING – In a war with the U.S. over Taiwan, China would need to create a global network of companies under U.S. sanctions, seize American assets within its borders, and issue gold-denominated bonds, according to Chinese government-affiliated researchers studying the Western response to Russia after its invasion of Ukraine. The sanctions against Moscow have prompted hundreds of Chinese economists, financiers, …
A refusal by the U.S. to clarify when it would remove punitive trade measures against the European Union is a key reason the transatlantic allies failed to reach an accord on steel trade this week that would have resolved a Trump-era dispute, according to the bloc’s chief trade negotiator. Valdis Dombrovskis, an executive vice president at the European Commission, said …