U.S. & World

A Texas state legislator is vowing to ban the use of unclaimed bodies for research in response to an NBC News investigation that found a local medical program obtained and studied hundreds of human specimens without families’ permission.

The Justice Department has announced criminal charges against Iranian operatives suspected of hacking Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and disseminating stolen information to media organizations.

The Israeli military said it struck Hezbollah’s headquarters in Beirut on Friday in a series of massive explosions that targeted the leader of the militant group and leveled multiple high-rise apartment buildings.

The U.S. Coast Guard rescued a man and his dog during Hurricane Helene after their sailboat became disabled and began taking on water.

A Coast Guard official testified Friday that he was surprised to learn at the hearing that the crew of the Polar Prince support vessel, in hindsight, felt a slight shudder around the time the Titan submersible imploded.

The U.S. needs to add 200 gigawatts of nuclear power, a senior official at the Department of Energy said.

Former Vikings quarterback Tommy Kramer says he has been diagnosed with dementia and was inspired to share the news after Brett Favre revealed he has Parkinson’s disease.

Maggie Smith, who portrayed Professor Minerva McGonagall in the series, died Friday at the age of 89. Here’s a remembrance of other cast members from the beloved Harry Potter franchise who have passed away.

Former President Donald Trump recently reissued his loyalty test to religious Americans, declaring that he can best protect their freedoms while preemptively blaming some if he loses the presidential election in November.

Maggie Smith, who won an Oscar for “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” in 1969 and won new fans in the 21st century as the dowager Countess of Grantham in “Downton Abbey,” has died, her publicist said Friday. She was 89.

The brief, submitted Thursday over the Trump team’s objections, is aimed at defending a revised and stripped-down indictment that prosecutors filed last month to comply with a Supreme Court ruling that conferred broad immunity on former presidents.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams is accused of taking a variety of improper gifts from Turkish officials and businesspeople, including free hotel stays and deeply discounted airline tickets.

A woman accused of operating a high-end brothel network with wealthy and prominent clients in Massachusetts and the Washington, D.C., suburbs pleaded guilty in federal court Friday.