Health experts decry New Zealand’s reversal on world-first tobacco ban (www.nbcnews.com)
The country’s new center-right coalition is repealing a ban on the sale of tobacco to anyone born after Jan. 1, 2009, which critics say will cost lives....
Derek Chauvin, officer convicted of murdering George Floyd, expected to survive prison stabbing (www.nbcnews.com)
Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of George Floyd’s murder, is expected to survive after he was stabbed in prison, the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office said Saturday....
Chicago scrambles to house migrants as winter approaches (www.nbcnews.com)
City and state officials are looking to get migrants off the streets and out of shelters more quickly, but advocates say new restrictions will only make things harder....
U.S. and China trade accusations over vessel in South China Sea (www.nbcnews.com)
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....
Burlington, Vermont, shooting live updates: 3 Palestinian U.S. college students shot on their way to dinner (www.nbcnews.com)
Several more children sickened by fruit pouches tainted with lead, FDA says (www.nbcnews.com)
Chinese hospitals ‘overwhelmed with sick children’ after surge in respiratory illness (www.nbcnews.com)
Jan. 6 rioter who used sovereign citizen 'gobbledygook' at trial is found guilty (www.nbcnews.com)
Florida grappling with flooding and high winds, more than 100K customers without power after intense rain (www.nbcnews.com)
Intense rain in parts of Florida has submerged neighborhoods, turned roads into rivers, closed schools and left more than 108,000 customers without power....
Donations have surged to groups linked to conservative Project 2025 (www.nbcnews.com)
‘He didn’t deserve to die like this’: Supreme Court decision leaves family of a man killed by border patrol agents searching for justice (www.nbcnews.com)
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OpenAI investors push to bring Altman back as CEO one day after he was ousted by board (www.nbcnews.com)
Congressional leaders are aiming to pass Ukraine and Israel supplemental aid before Christmas (www.nbcnews.com)
If Congress fails to move before the end of the year, Senate sources say, the chances of getting the entire plan over the finish line reduce dramatically....
Missing Florida mom found dead in estranged husband's storage unit (www.nbcnews.com)
After a dayslong search, sheriff’s deputies found Shakeira Rucker dead from apparent gunshot wounds inside the storage unit, authorities said.
With tears and a lullaby, a rural Alabama hospital stops delivering babies (www.nbcnews.com)
At 6:58 a.m. Thursday, Dr. Angela Adams Powell addressed the nurses at the south Alabama hospital where she had delivered babies for more than 25 years....
Florida teacher fired for using gender-neutral honorific ‘Mx.’ (www.nbcnews.com)
'Stand your butt up': Fistfight nearly breaks out during Senate hearing until Bernie Sanders steps in (www.nbcnews.com)
Sen. Markwayne Mullin, a former MMA fighter, had challenged the president of the Teamsters union, Sean O’Brien, but Sanders shut them both down.
Postal worker among 3 charged in $24 million stolen check scheme, officials say (www.nbcnews.com)
A U.S. Postal Service worker and two others have been charged in a scheme in which $24 million worth of checks were stolen from the mail and offered for sale online, federal prosecutors said....
Ex-federal prison guard sentenced to 8 years in sex abuse scandal (www.nbcnews.com)
Eight correctional officers at FCI Dublin have been charged. The U.S. inspector general said there was a “culture of sexual abuse” of female inmates.
H.S. football coach is fired after holding a baptism for players after practice (www.nbcnews.com)
A Georgia high school football coach who was criticized for holding a baptism on school grounds for some of his players has been fired weeks later....
Global decline in male fertility linked to common pesticides (www.nbcnews.com)
A prolonged decline in male fertility in the form of sperm concentrations appears to be connected to the use of pesticides, according to a study published Wednesday....
Biden administration staff sign open letter demanding cease-fire in Israel-Hamas war (www.nbcnews.com)
Botox, Ferragamo and OnlyFans: How George Santos allegedly spent his campaign funds (www.nbcnews.com)
The scathing House Ethics Committee report on embattled Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., alleges he was a cash-strapped candidate who used campaign contributions to live a life of luxury — including spending donors’ money on trips to casinos, shopping at high-end retailers and even Botox treatments and OnlyFans payments....
Nashville college freshman Jillian Ludwig dies after being hit by a stray bullet at a local park (www.nbcnews.com)
Authors of George Floyd book were told not to talk about systemic racism at Tenn. school event (www.nbcnews.com)
Journalists Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa, authors of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book “His Name Is George Floyd,” are still unclear why they were told they couldn’t read from their book or talk about systemic racism to a room full of high school students in Memphis....
