Tributes have been paid to the two victims who died in the shooting at the Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin, on Monday, who have been named as 42-year-old teacher Erin M. West and 14-year-old student Rubi P. Vergara. The Dane County Medical Examiner’s office confirmed their identities in a press release Wednesday night,...
For months, Dave McCormick knew a victory in Pennsylvania’s critical Senate race was far from certain. Public polling over the summer had him trailing Democratic Sen. Bob Casey, a three-term incumbent and state political scion, by as many as 14 percentage points. McCormick’s own polling, he told NBC News, had him down nearly 10 points,...
What Relievant did not know at the time, according to emails obtained by NBC News through a records request to the university, was that at least 25 of the bodies the company used for these trainings were unclaimed. The Health Science Center received the bodies from two local counties. As NBC News began to ask...
This article is part of “Dealing the Dead,” a series investigating the use of unclaimed bodies for medical research. Every day for two seemingly endless months, Arelis Coromoto Villegas repeated the same prayer: From her small, cinder-block home in Venezuela, she asked God to protect her 21-year-old daughter as she trekked thousands of miles through...
A French court on Thursday, found the ex-husband of Gisèle Pelicot guilty of aggravated rapes and all other charges against him in the historic mass rape trial that has shocked the nation. The verdict for Dominique Pelicot, 72, was read out in the court in the southern town of Avignon. He faces up to 20...
A California man was detained by the FBI and ordered to have his guns temporarily seized after he allegedly communicated with the 15-year-old shooter who killed two people at her Wisconsin school, documents show. The gun violence emergency protective order was served to a 20-year-old in Carlsbad in San Diego County on Tuesday, according to...
The Summary U.S. life expectancy jumped to 78.4 years last year, the highest it has been since 2019, before the pandemic. A decline in Covid deaths was a primary factor in the upward trend. Covid fell from the fourth-leading cause of death in 2022 to the 10th in 2023. Drug overdose deaths also decreased last...
Federal prosecutors are looking into whether to charge Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the killing of United Healthcare’s CEO, two sources familiar with the matter told NBC News on Wednesday. If federal charges are filed, the New York state murder case against Mangione would have priority, the sources said. Mangione, 26, was indicted Tuesday on...
Tech billionaire Elon Musk is already flexing his newfound political muscle even before his ally President-elect Donald Trump has taken the oath of office. Musk helped lead a revolt Wednesday to try to stop a bipartisan funding bill in a direct challenge to the authority of House Speaker Mike Johnson and others in Republican leadership...
So-called “murder hornets” have been eradicated from the U.S., officials announced Wednesday, five years after the invasive species was first identified in Washington state. The northern giant hornet has not been detected in three years, prompting officials to announce its eradication from the U.S., the Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) and the United States Department of...