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The child's body was found after police noticed blood inside a 28-year-old woman's car during a traffic stop. KARE's Charmaine Nero reports.May 23, 2022.

The family of an elite cyclist who was fatally shot earlier this month in the midst of what authorities are describing as a love triangle said her death was "senseless." "We are absolutely devastated by the loss of our beautiful daughter and sister, Anna Moriah Wilson," her family said in a statement to NBC News. "There are no words that can express the pain and suffering we are experiencing due to this senseless, tragic loss."

After 15 years of operating in Russia, Starbucks will exit the market, joining companies like McDonald’s, Exxon Mobil and British American Tobacco in withdrawing from the country completely. The coffee giant announced Monday that it will no longer have a brand presence in Russia. Starbucks has 130 locations in...

The Climate Reality Project, an environmental nonprofit organization founded by former Vice President Al Gore, announced Monday that veteran clean energy advocate Phyllis Cuttino is set to lead the organization. Cuttino, who was formerly director of the clean energy program at The Pew Charitable Trusts, will become the Climate Reality...

GUATEMALA CITY — An Indigenous migrant who was accused of kidnapping and jailed in a northern Mexico border city returned to her homeland of Guatemala on Sunday as a free woman after spending more than seven years in prison without a trial. A Mexican court ordered the immediate release...

Three cadets at the U.S. Air Force Academy who have refused the Covid-19 vaccine will not be commissioned as military officers but will graduate with bachelor’s degrees, the academy said Saturday. Academy spokesman Dean Miller said that a fourth cadet who had refused the vaccine until about a week...

Three women were killed Saturday in a suspected drunken driving crash on Long Island, New York, that left debris scattered across the area. The victims were sitting in the rear of a Lincoln Town Car with a driver and two other occupants when a Mercedes-Benz hit the vehicle in front of 214 Jericho Turnpike in New Hyde Park, shortly after 11 p.m., the Nassau County Police Department said.

MEDFORD, Wis. — A Wisconsin couple say they killed a bear that attacked them inside their home after they spotted it eating from their bird feeder. The Taylor County Sheriff’s office said the attack happened around 11 p.m. Friday at a home near Medford in north-central Wisconsin. The couple told authorities that the bear charged through a window after they yelled at it to go away.

MOUND, Minn. — A 28-year-old woman has been arrested after police found her 6-year-old son’s body in the trunk of her bloodied car in a Minneapolis suburb, authorities and family members said. Orono police said the woman and a man were arrested on suspicion of murder after the...

President Biden in Tokyo has unveiled a new economic pact with 12 U.S. allies that aims to strengthen global supply chains as well as counter China’s growing influence in the Pacific region. NBC News’ Carol Lee reports from Tokyo. May 23, 2022.

A senior member of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard was killed outside his home in Tehran on Sunday by unidentified gunmen on a motorbike, state TV reported. Although the Guard gave only scant detail about the attack that occurred in broad daylight in the heart of Iran’s capital, the group blamed the killing on “global arrogance,” typically code for the United States and Israel.

Three doses of Pfizer-BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine for the youngest children were 80 percent effective against the omicron variant of the coronavirus, according to early data the company released Monday. The long-awaited findings bring the vaccine one step closer to a reality for parents of children ages 6 months to...

A huge number of North Koreans including leader Kim Jong Un attended a funeral for a top official, state media reported Monday, as the country maintained the much-disputed claim that its suspected coronavirus outbreak is subsiding. Since admitting earlier this month to an outbreak of the highly contagious omicron variant,...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was among five recipients named at the JFK Profile in Courage Awards on Sunday night. Presenting the award, Caroline Kennedy said it had been given to an international elected official in only a "few exceptional cases" when "political courage has inspired the world."May 23, 2022.

A Russian soldier was sentenced to life in prison on Monday for killing an unarmed Ukrainian civilian, in the first war crimes trial since Moscow's invasion began three months ago. The verdict caps days of proceedings in a Kyiv courtroom and could set the stage for a string of other...

Several people were injured when a bull jumped a fence and escaped an arena during a popular Northern California rodeo, authorities said. The escape occurred Friday during the final section of the Redding Rodeo’s bull riding event, the Redding Rodeo Association said on Facebook. The bull leapt over a...

Russian soldiers entered the grounds of Mariupol’s Azovstal steel mill on Sunday as part of an operation to clear mines and debris from the area.May 23, 2022.

WASHINGTON — When Aftab Pureval first thought about running for office in a mostly white Ohio county, other Democrats advised him to change his name to something like “Adam" or "Al." Less than a decade later, Pureval is Cincinnati’s first Asian American mayor and says some of those...

Struggling to speak, Evgeny Sosnovsky held the picture he took of his 8-year-old nephew’s diary entry. “A small boy wrote that his city has died,” Sosnovsky said this month. “That’s all.”. It was one of hundreds of pictures Sosnovsky took in and of his home city,...

President Joe Biden said Monday that the United States would be willing to intervene militarily if China were to invade the self-governing island of Taiwan. Shortly afterwards, however, a White House official appeared to walk back the president's remarks.May 23, 2022.