There are still six states that remain uncalled by NBC News in the presidential race. Joe Biden’s lead has grown in Pennsylvania and Georgia today, while it has shrunk in Arizona. Here’s where Biden and President Donald Trump stand in those states as they each seek 270 electoral votes to...
The Dutch government on Wednesday proposed the first nationwide curfew since World War Two and a ban on flights from South Africa and Britain in its toughest moves yet to limit the spread of coronavirus in the Netherlands. Prime Minister Mark Rutte said the curfew, which is largely intended to...
Due to unprecedented energy demand during the winter storm, The Electric Reliability Council of Texas — the Texas grid operator — has declared an Energy Emergency Alert Level 3. As of 6:55 a.m. in the Big Country and Concho Valley areas, power outages reported are affecting more than 30,000 AEP...
The race is on to save more than 100 whales stranded off Tasmania's west coast, as volunteers work to move the huge animals and hope they don't return to strife. About one-third of the group of 270 whales have died, in a scene rescuers described as a "whale graveyard". On Tuesday...
A federal judge on Friday ordered a far-right conspiracy theorist who left an ominous note for U.S. Vice President Mike Pence inside the Capitol to be detained pending trial, saying he participated in a “violent insurrection.” In U.S. District Court in Phoenix, Arizona, Magistrate Judge Deborah Fine ruled that Jacob...
An Arizona woman allegedly shot an ACE Hardware employee on Saturday while opening fire on a suspected shoplifter who was fleeing the store. Phoenix police said Nya Reyes, 45, accidentally shot the male worker as he tried to apprehend the shoplifting suspect outside of the store. The suspect fled the...
Actress Laverne Cox and a friend were attacked by an anti-transgender assailant in Los Angeles’s Griffith Park over the weekend. Cox and her friend, whom she did not name, were having a socially distanced walk in the park Saturday when they were approached by a man who “very aggressively” asked...
A zookeeper in Spain lost his life while cleaning an elephant after he got hit by its trunk, fell on iron bars on a security gate and injured himself. Joaquin Gutierrez Arnaiz, 44, was a caretaker of the elephants at Cabarceno Natural Park near the northern city of Santander, and...
House prosecutors wrenched senators and the nation back to the deadly attack on Congress Tuesday as they opened Donald Trump’s historic second impeachment trial with graphic video of the attempted insurrection and Trump’s own calls for a rally crowd to march to the iconic building and “fight like hell”...
The coronavirus pandemic changed the way U.S. consumers use credit, as lower interest rates spurred a boom in home buying and refinancing and virus-related shutdowns led to a drop in credit card use and an increase in paying off debt, according to a report released on Wednesday by the...