An American man has been charged with allegedly inciting a “religiously motivated terrorist attack” that left six people dead in Australia a year ago, officials said Wednesday. The 58-year-old man was arrested by FBI agents in Heber Overgaard, Arizona on Dec. 1 for allegedly inciting the shooting with Christian extremist …
Read More »Ex-Alaska Airlines pilot accused of trying to cut plane’s engines indicted on endangerment charges
PORTLAND, Ore. — The former Alaska Airlines pilot accused of trying to cut the engines of a Horizon Air flight has been indicted on 84 endangerment charges, but is no longer charged with attempted murder, authorities said Tuesday. The district attorney’s office in Oregon’s Multnomah County, home to Portland, announced the grand …
Read More »Police say James Yoo, man whose Virginia home exploded, is presumed dead
ARLINGTON, Va. — A man is “presumed, at this point, to be deceased” after his house near Washington, D.C., blew up as police officers tried to serve a search warrant, authorities said Tuesday. Police had been called to the Arlington, Virginia, home of James Yoo, on Monday after he allegedly …
Read More »Sen. Bernie Sanders opposes giving Israel $10 billion in aid
WASHINGTON — Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., has come out against giving about $10 billion in emergency U.S. aid to Israel as part of a national security spending bill. “I do not believe we should be appropriating over $10 billion for the right-wing extremist Netanyahu government to continue its current military …
Read More »2 boats adrift with 400 Rohingya aboard desperately need rescue, U.N. says
BANGKOK, Thailand — The U.N. refugee agency on Monday sounded the alarm for about 400 Rohingya Muslims believed to be aboard two boats reported to be out of supplies and adrift in the Andaman Sea. The UNHCR is worried that all aboard could die without efforts to rescue them, said Babar Baloch, …
Read More »Panera Bread’s Charged Lemonade blamed for a second death, lawsuit alleges
Panera Bread’s highly caffeinated Charged Lemonade is now blamed for a second death, according to a lawsuit filed Monday. Dennis Brown, of Fleming Island, Florida, drank three Charged Lemonades from a local Panera on Oct. 9 and then suffered a fatal cardiac arrest on his way home, the suit says. …
Read More »Speeding car crashes and reckless driving: Are commercials to blame?
Automakers often display a warning in commercials when showing a car executing incredible stunts: “Professional driver on a closed course. Please do not attempt.” But with deaths from car crashes rising every year, experts are asking if that kind of boilerplate language, which more or less fades into the background as a vehicle …
Read More »5 people dead in apparent murder-suicide in Washington
Five people were found dead in a Vancouver, Washington, home on Sunday in an apparent murder-suicide, authorities said. A person called the Clark County Sheriff’s Office requesting a welfare check just after 1 p.m. local time Sunday after “receiving a text message from a family member stating they had harmed …
Read More »Modi’s party wins 3 of 4 states in India elections
NEW DELHI, India — India’s ruling Hindu nationalist party won in three of four state elections, according to results released Sunday from a crucial vote that pitted the main opposition party against that of Prime Minister Narendra Modi before national polls next year. Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP, wrested …
Read More »Idaho baby found dead 1 day after Amber Alert, police say father is in custody
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho — An Idaho baby was found dead by police on Saturday, one day after an Amber Alert was issued for him, authorities said. The baby’s father was taken into custody on an arrest warrant issued in connection with the death of his wife. Police found the body …
Read More »Man fatally stabs 4 relatives and wounds 2 officers in Queens attack, police say
Four family members were killed in a stabbing spree in Queens early Sunday morning that also wounded another person in the home and two officers, the New York Police Department said. Police responded to a Far Rockaway residence at 5:10 a.m. after a young girl called 911 to report her …
Read More »María Martin, radio pioneer and founder of ‘Latino USA,’ dies at 72
Media pioneer María Martin, creator of the groundbreaking, award-winning public radio program “Latino USA,” died Saturday after complications from a medical procedure. She was 72. Martin dedicated much of her professional life to bringing the voices and stories of U.S. Latinos and Latin Americans to English-language public radio. In doing …
Read More »Police raid Moscow gay bars after a Supreme Court ruling labeled LGBTQ+ movement ‘extremist’
Russian security forces raided gay clubs and bars across Moscow Friday night, less than 48 hours after the country’s top court banned what it called the “global LGBTQ+ movement” as an extremist organization. Police searched venues across the Russian capital, including a nightclub, a male sauna, and a bar that hosted LGBTQ+ …
Read More »In latest bloodletting, Ron DeSantis super PAC names third CEO in two weeks
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Never Back Down, the main super PAC backing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis‘ presidential campaign, installed its third chief executive officer in less than two weeks on Friday, according to five people familiar with the latest development in the slow-motion shakeup. Scott Wagner, a longtime DeSantis loyalist, …
Read More »Suspect in custody in killings of 3 homeless men in Los Angeles
The Los Angeles Police Department announced Saturday that a suspect has been identified in connection with the killings of three homeless men this week. The suspect, Jerrid Joseph Powell, 33, was already in custody after being arrested in the killing of a county employee earlier in the week. Police did …
Read More »Tsunami warning issued after 7.6 magnitude earthquake hits off coast of southern Philippines
MANILA, Philippines — A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.6 struck Saturday off the coast of the southern Philippines island of Mindanao and Philippine authorities issued a tsunami warning. The quake struck at 10:37 p.m. and was measured at a depth of 20 miles. There are no immediate …
Read More »What to know about JN.1 and BA.2.86
As a seasonal slew of respiratory illnesses circulate, it’s Covid that continues to send the most people to the hospital, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday. “Covid is still the primary cause of new respiratory virus hospitalizations and death,” CDC Director Dr. Mandy Cohen said at a …
Read More »Family looking for answers about mother who vanished during cross-country trip
Relatives of a mother of two who vanished on a trip from Alabama to Wyoming are desperate for answers about what has happened to her. Katheryn “Katie” Ferguson, 33, was last seen Oct. 5 by police in Arkansas as a passenger in the vehicle of her on-again, off-again boyfriend, who …
Read More »Black people have been ‘brainwashed to hate Jews’
During a podcast interview on the war between Israel and Hamas, actor Julianna Margulies asserted that Black people should be completely supporting Israel but have been “brainwashed to hate Jews.” The claims that are just going viral were delivered on a Nov. 21 episode of “The Back Room With Andy …
Read More »George Santos poised for expulsion from Congress following House Ethics Committee investigation
WASHINGTON — The House voted overwhelmingly to expel indicted Rep. George Santos on Friday, pulling the curtain down on a tempestuous term in office that was marred by revelations that he’d fabricated parts of his biography, a scathing House ethics investigation and a 23-count federal indictment charging him with crimes …
Read More »Israel resumes Gaza military operation after Hamas cease-fire ends
Gazans reported seeing and hearing airstrikes across the enclave’s north and south, as well as artillery shelling along the border to the east. Hamas-affiliated media reported heavy gunfire and that clashes were occurring in the north, the focus of Israel’s campaign so far. And NBC News’ team in Gaza witnessed …
Read More »Former Marine pleads guilty in California Planned Parenthood firebomb attack
A former Marine pleaded guilty Thursday in a 2022 firebombing attack on a Planned Parenthood clinic in California, federal prosecutors said. Chance Brannon, 24, is one of three men charged in the Molotov cocktail attack on the building in Costa Mesa, which occurred while Brannon was an active-duty Marine stationed …
Read More »Elon Musk hypes Tesla Cybertruck at deliveries event in Austin
Tesla CEO Elon Musk took the stage to reveal details about the company’s new and unconventional Cybertruck pickup on Thursday in Austin, Texas, one day after he appeared in a bizarre interview at the DealBook Summit in New York. At that earlier event, Musk boasted, “It will be the biggest product launch of …
Read More »Appeals court reinstates Trump gag order in New York civil tax fraud case
A state appeals court in New York reinstated a gag order against Donald Trump and his lawyers in the $250 million civil fraud case against the former president and his company, rejecting his argument the order was unconstitutional. State court officials had argued the gag order was necessary because of …
Read More »China says respiratory illness cases under control; Taiwan issues travel advisory
A recent increase in respiratory illnesses in China is a common issue faced by that all countries and Chinese authorities have it under effective control, China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Wednesday. The World Health Organization (WHO) last week requested China provide detailed information on an increase in respiratory …
Read More »Political world reacts to Henry Kissinger’s divisive life and legacy
Shortly after the announcement of Henry Kissinger’s death on Wednesday, reactions began pouring in from the political world that the former secretary of state helped shape during his career in Washington. Current and former politicians — mostly Republicans — were among the first to weigh in on the divisive life …
Read More »‘Perreo,’ term for popular reggaeton dance, makes it into ‘official’ Spanish-language dictionary
“Perreo,” the name of the dance performed to the rhythm of the widely popular Latin urban genre reggaeton, which has deep roots in Puerto Rico, is officially a Spanish word. It’s one of the more than 4,000 new terms and definitions added to the dictionary of the Real Academia Española, or Spanish …
Read More »Black survivors are nearly invisible in the U.S. Catholic clergy sexual abuse crisis
As Charles Richardson gradually lost his eyesight to complications from diabetes, certain childhood memories haunted him even more. The Catholic priest appeared vividly in his mind’s eye — the one who promised him a spot on a travel basketball team, took him out for burgers and helped him with homework. …
Read More »Voters deliver a primal scream demanding change
One of the more head-scratching facts about our current political climate is how much the two parties, whose purpose is winning voter support to gain power, aren’t listening to the voters, who have been screaming for massive change in our political system for just about this entire century. In the most recent NBC News …
Read More »Co-founder of Students for Trump charged with assault
A co-founder of Students for Trump has been arrested and charged with assault, according to North Carolina court documents. Ryan Fournier faces misdemeanor charges of assault on a female and assault with a deadly weapon, according to the court documents, which allege he grabbed the victim by her arm and …
Read More »Tina Knowles responds to claims that Beyoncé bleached her skin for ‘Renaissance’ premiere
Tina Knowles is defending her daughter, Beyoncé, amid allegations that she whitened her skin. The fashion designer addressed comments about her daughter’s appearance at the premiere of “Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé” with a post shared on her Instagram page. On Nov. 25, Beyoncé appeared ahead of the screening of her film on …
Read More »More discounts — and pitfalls — await holiday shopping procrastinators
Sleep through Black Friday and Cyber Monday? Don’t worry. While the two post-Thanksgiving sales days featured plenty of discounts, retailers are still pushing to lure in shoppers all through December. Yes, there were record-setting deals in some categories over the holiday weekend, and plenty of people wasted no time taking …
Read More »Indian rescuers drill through debris to reach 41 men trapped in tunnel
SILKYARA, India — Indian rescuers led by “rat miners” drilled through rocks and debris on Tuesday to reach 41 construction workers trapped in a collapsed tunnel in the Himalayas for 17 days. The process of pulling out the 41 low-wage workers from India’s poorest states, one at a time on …
Read More »Congress unlikely to include a pathway to citizenship in its border deal
WASHINGTON — Pathways to citizenship for young immigrants protected by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program are unlikely to be included in a border deal that lawmakers are trying to hash out in the final weeks of the year. Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., who is involved with the negotiations, told …
Read More »Child driving stolen construction forklift leads Ann Arbor police on chase
A 12-year-old boy driving a stolen construction vehicle led police in Michigan on an hourlong chase, striking about 10 parked vehicles in the process, the Ann Arbor Police Department said. The vehicle, a Construction Genie GTH-636 Telehandler — equipped with a forklift and weighing up to 35,000 pounds — was …
Read More »Justice Department is working to secure all American hostages
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Read More »210+ best deals live right now
Cyber Monday is here and retailers are offering notable discounts across categories like beauty, tech, fitness, home, kitchen, streaming subscriptions and more. Experts told us that the strongest deals worth shopping end tonight, so you have less than 24 hours to take advantage of sales before they’re over. To help …
Read More »The best Cyber Monday Roomba deals 2023
Cyber Monday officially starts tomorrow, but retailers are already offering notable discounts across categories, including home items, including furniture and kitchen products. We compiled the best deals on vacuums that you’ll want to know about. We’ll continue updating you about new savings opportunities. SKIP AHEAD Best Cyber Monday Roomba deals …
Read More »Formula 1 broke new ground in America this year, despite Verstappen’s dominance
After the race, Williams Racing team principal James Vowles said only that he’s “proud” of the improvements Sargeant has made when asked if he’ll race with the team next year. “Look at the last five races, and how he’s been improving and stepping forward. I think you can see signs …
Read More »National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan says there’s ‘reason to believe’ one U.S. hostage will be released today
National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said in an interview on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” that the Biden administration has “reason to believe” one American hostage will be released on Sunday, the third day of a temporary cease-fire between Israel and Hamas. Asked by host Kristen Welker this morning if …
Read More »U.S. and China trade accusations over vessel in South China Sea
China and the United States exchanged accusations at the weekend over the disputed South China Sea, after China’s military said it had driven away a U.S. warship that the U.S. Navy said was on a routine freedom of navigation operation. According to a post on the official WeChat social media …
Read More »Flight data recorder recovered from Navy plane that overshot runway near Honolulu
KANEOHE, Hawaii — The flight data recorder of a large U.S. Navy plane that overshot a runway and ended up in the water near Honolulu this week has been recovered as the military continues to plan for the aircraft’s removal. The Navy’s Aircraft Mishap Board is investigating on scene at Marine Corps …
Read More »17 hostages released in second group amid temporary cease-fire in Gaza
A group of 17 hostages were released from the Gaza Strip on Saturday and have arrived in Egypt, the Israel Defense Forces said. Thirteen Israelis and four Thai nationals were freed as part of a breakthrough deal between Israel and Hamas to pause fighting. As part of the deal, 39 Palestinians were …
Read More »The 34+ best deals from Best Buy’s Black Friday sale
Black Friday is over, but retailers are still offering notable discounts across categories, including tech, beauty, home, kitchen, fitness and subscription services We compiled the best Black Friday deals at Best Buy that we think you’ll want to know about. We’ll continue updating you about new savings opportunities throughout Black Friday and Cyber …
Read More »North Korea’s Kim inspects spy satellite photos of ‘target regions’
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspected photos taken by the country’s new spy satellite of “major target regions,” including the South Korean capital of Seoul and cities that host U.S. military bases, state media said on Saturday. Nuclear-armed North Korea launched the satellite on Tuesday, but South Korean defence …
Read More »173+ best Black Friday deals 2023 to shop before it’s too late
Black Friday is officially here, and retailers are offering notable discounts across categories, including tech, beauty, home, kitchen, fitness and subscription services. To help you make the most of the sale event, we compiled the best Black Friday 2023 deals that are actually worth buying. We’ll continue updating you about …
Read More »29+ bestsellers from Crest, Apple and Anker
Today is Black Friday, and numerous retailers are offering large discounts across various product categories. Our team at NBC Select has been covering sale events like this one for years, and we are impressed by the deals on tech, fitness gear, travel, beauty and wellness products and more from retailers …
Read More »Best deals on smartwatches, TVs and more
Black Friday is finally here, and Amazon is offering plenty of notable sales on tech devices, fitness items, skin care essentials and more during the event. Amazon joins other major retailers like Walmart, Target and Best Buy in releasing steep Black Friday savings for the holiday shopping season. Unlike Prime …
Read More »The best Black Friday deals on AirPods and headphones
Shop discounted Apple Airpods and headphones from brands like Bose and Soundcore on Black Friday.
Read More »California jogger charged with killing a homeless man who was blocking his path
A Southern California man accused of fatally shooting a homeless man and filming it has been charged with felony voluntary manslaughter, prosecutors said. Craig Sumner Elliott, 68, was jogging with two dogs and a pushcart in Garden Grove, Calif., on Sept. 28 when he confronted the man who was asleep …
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