Man convicted in arson attack in Japan sentenced to death

Arkhouse Management and its partner Brigade Capital Management on Dec. 1 made a $5.8 billion proposal to take department store chain Macy’s private, Arkhouse confirmed on Sunday. Arkhouse Management, a real-estate-focused investing firm, and Brigade Capital Management, a global asset manager, submitted a proposal to acquire the Macy’s stock they don’t already own for $21…

WASHINGTON — The last time President Joe Biden visited Superior, Wisconsin, he warned of the danger posed by the deteriorating John A. Blatnik Memorial Bridge — pointing out the decades-old corrosion that had weakened the overpass connecting the two port cities in Wisconsin and Minnesota and vowing to fix it. Biden is returning to that…

STAMFORD, Conn. — Wrestling icon Vince McMahon resigned Friday from WWE’s parent company the day after a former employee filed a federal lawsuit accusing him and another former executive of serious sexual misconduct, including offering her to a star wrestler for sex. McMahon stepped down from the board of directors at WWE’s parent company, TKO…

Bud Light is back in the game. The controversial beer brand launched a teaser Thursday for what is promised to be a humorous Super Bowl commercial, marking a return to basics after a months-long boycott that cost it its best-selling beer title. “The Super Bowl is advertising’s biggest moment, and our goal is to once…

HELSINKI — Voters in Finland were electing a new president Sunday at an unprecedented time for the Nordic nation that is now a NATO member with its eastern border with Russia closed — two things almost unthinkable a few years ago. Polls across the country opened at 9 a.m. (0700 GMT) and will close at…

Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso withdraw from West Africa economic bloc ECOWAS, citing coup sanctions, officials say