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Jury selection is underway in the murder trial of Rodney L.

A consumer lawsuit is accusing Starbucks of adding sugar, sometimes as much as that in a Kit Kat bar, to drinks marketed as sugar free.

A 23-year-old woman and a baby plunged from an apartment in New York City on Tuesday, leaving the woman dead and the baby in critical condition.

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Russian officials are facing mounting questions after the mysterious death of a 28-year-old Russian researcher at a lab in Siberia that studies plagues.

Protests have spread across India in the past week as opposition parties and civil society groups demand the resignation of the country’s election chief over alleged manipulation of voter lists.

Paramount Skydance completed its $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros., creating a Hollywood heavyweight called Skydance and handing CEO David ‌Ellison control.

The S&P 500 hit a record high, supported by rising technology stocks, declining oil prices and hopes for a positive earnings season.

The top Republican super PAC involved in Senate races is planning to spend $5 million in South Carolina, a source familiar with the spending confirmed.

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The television industry’s marquee awards show is heading to streaming starting next year.

California officials denounced President Donald Trump for saying at a campaign rally in Nebraska on Monday that Iran could “take out” Los Angeles or San Diego, calling his remarks “deranged” and “irresponsible.”

Plague had not been detected among close contacts of a worker in an anti-plague laboratory in Siberia who died last week, with 60% of the identified group tested so far, officials in Russia said Tuesday.

The Voto Latino Foundation and the Hispanic Federation are spending six figures to get voters to the polls in the Rio Grande Valley.

Cornell University faculty introduced a resolution declaring a no-confidence vote in the university administration’s handling of the alleged 2024 sexual assault at a fraternity house.

TEL AVIV — The pilot who tried to bring down an Israel-bound flight had been planning a 9/11-style attack by crashing into the country’s main airport in Tel Aviv, a Middle Eastern official has told NBC News.

Jim Bakker, the charismatic preacher who built a Christian television empire with his wife Tammy Faye before it collapsed in scandal, has died at the age of 86.

As protests intensify at Cornell over the university’s handling of an alleged 2024 sexual assault, members of the faculty are now reportedly planning a vote of no confidence against school administrators.

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With midterm elections just a month away, NBC News chief data analyst Steve Kornacki joins TODAY to discuss the latest poll numbers, where the Senate and the House stand, what battleground states to keep an eye on, the major issues on the minds of voters,…

With four weeks to go until the crucial midterm elections, President Donald Trump is making an all-out push to rally Republicans, trying to appeal to voters on the economy.

Republicans funnel hundreds of millions of dollars into midterm races.

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The Minnesota Vikings are one of three undefeated NFL teams left despite an offense that has scored just one offensive touchdown in its last three games.

The former analyst says supervisors were told not to put things in writing, so many of the directives came in face-to-face meetings.

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Cost-of-living issues are driving up tensions in local communities, while immigration is the most polarizing issue nationally, local government officials said in a new survey.

Republicans have made more than $700 million of new advertising bookings in congressional races since Sept. 1, with the Trump-aligned super PAC pouring in funds.

The Nobel Prize in physics will be announced Tuesday by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm.

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Jim Bakker, the televangelist who rose to fame with the PTL network in the 1970s, but was later convicted of fraud and conspiracy, has died at the age of 86.

Television pastor Jim Bakker, who served time in prison for defrauding his followers in the 1980s, has died.

Nidal Hasan, the former U.S.

A Massachusetts man pleaded guilty in a case involving illegally importing and selling radioactive material from Russia, federal prosecutors said Monday.

A conservative coalition clamoring for guardrails on AI and data centers finished its 8,000-mile road trip in San Francisco, bringing the fight for equitable investment to Anthropic and OpenAI’s doorstep.

Trump signed an executive order intended to help bring down sky-high diesel prices by allowing anyone to purchase tax-exempt “red dye” diesel.

Annie Andrews is a physician running against Sen.

The president said the ads, which the White House has defended, will be funded by him and his super PAC, MAGA Inc.

The U.S. military moved all its bombers from RAF Fairford in part because of the threat of a possible Iranian drone attack against the base and the aircraft, according to two U.S. officials.