Thousands of demonstrators wearing masks and bearing signs are expected to gather near the running of the Kentucky Derby on Saturday, replacing the traditional crowds of dapper dandies and women in fanciful hats who will…

A naked Black man who told Rochester, New York, police after his brother called 911 that he had COVID-19 was restrained with handcuffs and a spit hood, and his head was forced into the asphalt…

KENOSHA, Wis. — A citywide curfew and the threat of arrest had been in place several days here when the inflammatory state of politics and protest in Kenosha began to reveal itself. Take, for instance,…

Facebook will ban new political ads for the week leading up to Election Day, Nov. 3, and remove posts that try to suppress or discourage voting, the company’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Thursday. The measures…

The news today is filled with reporting on groundbreaking scientific studies, from those diagnosing the symptoms of COVID-19 to those tracking how it spreads to those exploring novel treatments and vaccines. It's clear that we’d…

As some restaurants, salons and other businesses welcomed back their customers in August, NBC News Shopping readers continued to invest in face masks, filters and thermometers. And while students geared up to return to online…

A few things go through Tim Tredwell’s mind when he’s in the middle of an active shooter drill, leading his physical education class into the locker room at John Winthrop Middle School in Deep River,…

Two years ago, British intelligence alleged that Russia's military intelligence agency, known as the GRU, used a nerve agent from the Novichok family — an exotic Soviet-developed class of chemical weapons — to poison one…