Alexandra Chaidez
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A beach party, a call for help and missing pictures: Inside the day of Nolan Wells’ death
A beach party, a call for help and missing pictures: Inside the day of Nolan Wells’ death Calls for answers have only grown louder in the weeks since the teen was found dead after a holiday spent on the water with friends.
Before Nolan Wells’ death, Mississippi island was full of fun, friends and an unspoken danger
When locals think of Horn Island, they think of pristine beaches, summer boating trips and peaceful fishing. But now, the idyllic Mississippi island is overcast with an unsettling pall after the death of 18-year-old Nolan Wells. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content.
Mississippi DA says she’s planning to meet with Nolan Wells’ parents amid ongoing investigation into teen’s death
PASCAGOULA, Miss. — One day after Nolan Wells’ family lamented that they had not heard from those investigating the teen’s death in a week, the local district attorney told NBC News that her office is set to meet with the parents on Wednesday. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content.
A $58,000 sofa? Inside the mind-boggling crime spree of L.A.'s 'most tasteful' burglar Original
April 3, 2026, 5:00 AM EDT The text message arrived on the afternoon of June 5, 2024. A call or text from a landlord rarely means good news, and this one was no exception. “Can u call me,” it read. “We might have a break in.” The timing could hardly have been worse for Victoria Paris, an influencer based in Los Angeles. She was 3,000 miles away in New York, preparing to close a business deal and then fly off to Europe for the summer.
Man behind deadly attack on Mormon church in Michigan called in other threats to 'divert' police
The man who attacked a Mormon church in Michigan last year sought to "divert law enforcement resources" by phoning in threats to three other nearby houses of worship before unleashing his deadly assault on LDS members, police said Tuesday. Thomas Jacob Sanford, 40, was killed by responding police after killing four people in a shooting and fire on Sept. 28 at the Church of Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc Township, on McCandlish Road and about 60 miles northwest of downtown Detroit.
How a top-tier surrogacy agency became an FBI target
Dec. 18, 2025, 6:00 AM EST The FBI is investigating a prominent surrogacy agency that shuttered abruptly earlier this month, leaving desperate parents-to-be out of tens of thousands of dollars and surrogates missing payments as their pregnancies progressed. The agency’s owner, Megan Hall-Greenberg, 49, effectively disappeared — she deleted her social media accounts, and clients and employees say she hasn’t replied to their messages since Dec. 3.
Harvard students and faculty face the fallout from a showdown with Trump Original
/ Updated Town halls warning of layoffs. Medical leaves for mental health. Students readying for deportation. These are the grim signs of a campus under siege. But it’s not just any campus. Harvard University, America’s oldest and wealthiest institute of higher learning, is at a crossroads as it weathers the Trump administration’s attacks.
Deaths of Tennessee factory workers in Hurricane Helene flooding was 'not work-related,' state agency finds Original
Tennessee’s workplace safety agency has absolved a plastics plant of responsibility in the deaths of six workers who were swept away by floodwaters from Hurricane Helene in September. The Sept. 27 deaths gained national attention when community members and relatives of the mostly Latino plant employees questioned why they hadn’t been dismissed from work early enough to escape the record levels of rain that overcame the plastics factory in Erwin and take the only road out.
After IVF nightmare errors, patients have few legal protections Original
Krystena Murray realized something had gone awry in her in-vitro fertilization process immediately after giving birth: She is white, as was her chosen sperm donor, who had dirty blond hair and blue eyes. But her baby was dark-skinned. “He was beautiful and perfect, but it was also very clear that something was wrong,” she said. “I hoped that it was just a sperm mix up.” The IVF process had been grueling.
Surging floodwater and panicked prayers: How a workday at a Tennessee plastics factory turned deadly Original
Oct. 18, 2024, 6:54 PM EDT ERWIN, Tenn. — As Hurricane Helene dumped record levels of rain on East Tennessee, the swollen Nolichucky River overtook a small plastics factory and the only road out. A panicked group of workers, who had climbed aboard a truck’s trailer in front of the plant,were swept away by the raging floodwater. In the days after the Sept. 27 flood, the bodies of five of the Impact Plastics Inc.
Grief and anger mix as Tennessee plastic plant survivors say permission to leave came too late
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Our thoughts & prayers are with all those affected by Hurricane Helene & its devastation to the region that has...
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Grief and anger mix as Tennessee plastic plant survivors say permission to leave came too late
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Bertha Mendoza made a final call to her husband of 38 years as raging Hurricane Helene floodwaters trapped her and others at a Tennessee plastics plant. Workers have said they were allowed to leave when water was already swamping its parking lot in Erwin on Friday. In a call to her husband, Elias Mendoza, Bertha, 56, said she loved him, her son Guillermo Mendoza told NBC News. She asked him to also tell her children she loved them.
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Asian Americans see mixed results in enrollment after end of affirmative action
In the first college admissions process since the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action last year, Asian American enrollment at the most prestigious U.S. schools paints a mixed, uneven picture. Some Ivy League schools, including Columbia and Brown universities, showed an increase in Asian Americans for the class of 2028, while others, like Yale and Princeton, showed a decrease.
Asian Americans see mixed results in enrollment after end of affirmative action
In the first college admissions process since the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action last year, Asian American enrollment at the most prestigious U.S. schools paints a mixed, uneven picture. Some Ivy League schools, including Columbia and Brown universities, showed an increase in Asian Americans for the class of 2028, while others, like Yale and Princeton, showed a decrease.
Fact-checking the presidential debate between Trump and Harris
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Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump faced off in their first debate Tuesday night, trading barbs on foreign policy, abortion and guns. Trump advanced a number of debunked conspiracy theories related to migration, crime and voting in the combative showdown, while Harris made misleading statements about manufacturing jobs and whether U.S. troops are in combat zones. Here's what Harris and Trump got right and wrong on the debate stage in Philadelphia.
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Black enrollment dips at some top colleges after Supreme Court affirmative action ruling
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Black enrollment dips at some top colleges after Supreme Court affirmative action ruling
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Black enrollment dips at some top colleges after Supreme Court affirmative action ruling
Sept. 5, 2024, 12:07 AM UTC There has been a dip in Black enrollment at some of the nation’s top universities since the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action, sharply limiting public colleges and universities from considering race in admission. Amherst College, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Washington University in St. Louis and Mount Holyoke are among at least a half-dozen schools that have seen drops in Black student enrollment for the 2024 academic year.
Kamala Harris’ criminal justice policies in California angered both progressives and police
As the new Democratic standard bearer, Vice President Kamala Harris has described her contest with former President Donald Trump in blunt terms — tough prosecutor versus civil and criminal defendant. “I took on perpetrators of all kinds, predators who abused women, fraudsters who ripped off consumers, cheaters who broke the rules for their own game,” Harris said at a rally in Wisconsin on Tuesday.
Kamala Harris’ criminal justice policies in California angered both progressives and police
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‘Thread that needle’: Kamala Harris’ criminal justice policies in California angered progressives and police
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Secret Service has decade-old staffing shortfall
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'Agency in Crisis' Secret Service has decade-old staffing shortfall
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'Agency in Crisis': Secret Service has decade-old staffing shortfall
July 20, 2024, 7:30 PM UTC The arm of the Secret Service that protects presidents, vice presidents and their families is nearly 10 percent smaller than it was a decade ago despite warnings from Congress and a government watchdog that it needed to add agents or risk compromising its mission.
Police in Milwaukee and Chicago brace for convention protests
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July 12, 2024, 5:30 PM UTC As delegates prepare to converge on the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee next week — and the Democratic National Convention in Chicago next month — thousands of law enforcement officers from dozens of police agencies face a confluence of challenges: securing venues, combating summer street crime and managing the unpredictability of mass protests. The RNC will run from July 15 to July 18, and the DNC is scheduled from Aug. 19 to Aug. 22.
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Denied the 'right to hug': In many U.S. jails, video calls are the only way detainees can see loved ones Original
June 20, 2024, 9:00 PM UTC Reekila Harris-Dudley had been eagerly awaiting the video call. At 4 feet, 11 inches tall, she was perched on a plastic crate at the Genesee County jail in Flint, Michigan, positioning herself in front of a screen built into the wall. She said it was the only way she could wish her daughter a happy fourth birthday face to face. But the call failed to connect. “It kept saying that the system was down,” the 31-year-old mother recounted.
How a Texas hospital is fighting a condition that kills pregnant women
Several weeks into her second pregnancy, Bianca Chavarria knew something was wrong. The baby felt strangely heavy, and there was pressure in her abdomen. “It didn’t feel like my first pregnancy at all,” said Chavarria, then 20, of Floresville, Texas, just outside San Antonio. Chavarria said her doctors downplayed her symptoms, so she went online to do her own research.
Ex-Military Surgeons Want To Stop Americans From Bleeding to Death
Members of the “whole blood mafia” have used persuasion and persistence to increase the number of communities where rescue vehicles carry blood. Read Full Article » Show comments Hide Comments Related Articles
Ex-military surgeons embrace new mission: stop Americans from bleeding to death
A movement to revolutionize the treatment of trauma patients in the U.S. can be traced to an infamous battle fought in East Africa more than 30 years ago. Dr. John Holcomb was an Army trauma surgeon deployed to Somalia when two Black Hawk helicopters were shot down over the city of Mogadishu in 1993. With dozens of soldiers bleeding out and no hospitals available, the head doctor told Holcomb to prepare for a “walking blood bank.” “I had never heard of such a thing,” Holcomb recalled.
Who were the ‘outsiders’ at Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall?
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When James Carlson was arrested inside Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall, he was already under investigation for snatching an Israeli flag out of a man’s hand near campus and setting it on fire. That wasn’t the first time Carlson, who has no affiliation with Columbia, had run afoul of the law. He was arrested in San Francisco in 2005 during a violent protest organized by an anarchist group, according to a senior law enforcement official.
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Who were the ‘outsiders’ at Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall?
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When James Carlson was arrested inside Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall, he was already under investigation for snatching an Israeli flag out of a man’s hand near campus and setting it on fire. That wasn’t the first time Carlson, who has no affiliation with Columbia, had run afoul of the law. He was arrested in San Francisco in 2005 during a violent protest organized by an anarchist group, according to a senior law enforcement official.
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Indian company sold contaminated shrimp to U.S. grocery stores, ‘whistleblower’ says
This story is a product of an NBC News investigation in collaboration with The Outlaw Ocean Project, a nonprofit journalism organization. Joshua Farinella had been working in the seafood industry for eight years when he received an exotic job offer too lucrative to pass up — managing a shrimp factory in southern India. The salary: $300,000, more than double what he was making previously. “I packed up two suitcases and moved 8,000 miles away,” said Farinella, 45, of Pittston, Pennsylvania.
Indian company sold contaminated shrimp to U.S. grocery stores, ‘whistleblower’ says
This story is a product of an NBC News investigation in collaboration with The Outlaw Ocean Project, a nonprofit journalism organization. Joshua Farinella had been working in the seafood industry for eight years when he received an exotic job offer too lucrative to pass up — managing a shrimp factory in southern India. The salary: $300,000, more than double what he was making previously. “I packed up two suitcases and moved 8,000 miles away,” said Farinella, 45, of Pittston, Pennsylvania.
Indian company sold contaminated shrimp to U.S. grocery stores, ‘whistleblower’ says
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0:47 1 hour ago Forest officials stunned as water gushes from tree in Joharapuram, India StringersHub • 1h This footage was filmed and produced 20 March 2024. In a strange event, the forest department, aided by the Konda Reddi tribe, discovered reservoirs of water contained within trees in southern India and Andhra Pradesh. The incident took place in the Kintukuru Forest area of Papikonda National Park in the Alluri Sitharama Raju district on March 30.
Who's behind the pro-Palestinian protests that are disrupting Biden's campaign events and blocking city streets?
In cities across the country, highways have been blocked, trains have been delayed and sections of college campuses have been shut down by hundreds of thousands of people who have taken to the streets. They’re protesting Israel’s invasion of Gaza in response to Hamas’ Oct. 7 terrorist attack. Members of the movement say the size of the demonstrations is a response to the killing of more than 30,000 Palestinians in Gaza, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.
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