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PINGTUNG COUNTY, Taiwan — Below a windy lookout, three U.S.-made mobile rocket launchers lurched forward at a military base in Taiwan, preparing for their first live-fire test on the Beijing-claimed island. “3, 2, 1… launch,” a Taiwan military officer counted down over a loudspeaker. A total of 33 rockets were …

“Éclaircissement” was the winning word, but for Faizan Zaki it spelled success. The seventh grader from Dallas won the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday, after last year having come in second place on the big stage. Faizan, 13, showed little hesitation as he spelled “éclaircissement,” which means the clearing …

Jalen Brunson scored 32 points, Karl-Anthony Towns added 24 points and 13 rebounds despite a bruised left knee and the New York Knicks stayed alive in the Eastern Conference finals by beating the Indiana Pacers 111-94 on Thursday night in Game 5. The Knicks won on their home floor for …

BEIJING — U.S.-China trade talks “are a bit stalled,” requiring the two countries’ leaders to speak directly, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Fox News in an interview Thursday local time. “I believe that we will be having more talks with them in the next few weeks,” he said, adding that …

Six dead gray whales have been found in the area of San Francisco Bay over the last week, officials said Wednesday, in a year when there has been an unusually high number of sightings in the area. The gray whales were found dead from May 21 to Wednesday, when one …

Bernard Kerik, who was New York City’s police commissioner on 9/11 and later pleaded guilty to tax fraud before being pardoned, has died. He was 69. FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed his death on Thursday on social media, saying it came “after a private battle with illness.” Former New York …

The FBI’s top two leaders said in interviews on Fox News that the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide and promised to release a surveillance video from the federal jail in New York City where Epstein was found dead. Officials in the first Trump administration …

CALICO ROCK, Ark. — Arkansas authorities are looking at whether a job in the prison kitchen played a role in the weekend escape of a convicted former police chief known as the “Devil in the Ozarks.” Grant Hardin, 56, was housed in a maximum-security wing of the medium-security Calico Rock …

After six weeks and dozens of witnesses, Massachusetts prosecutors retrying Karen Read on a murder charge in the widely publicized death of her boyfriend three years ago rested their case Thursday. While the theory put forward by special prosecutor Hank Brennan was the same as that offered by the assistant …

COMMACK, N.Y. — A man was killed and another injured after a dumpster they were sleeping in was emptied into a garbage truck in New York, police said Thursday. The two men had been in a dumpster at a shopping plaza in Commack, on Long Island, when the dumpster was …