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Three University of Wyoming swimming and diving team members were killed in a car crash Thursday afternoon near the Wyoming-Colorado border, the school said.  Sophomore Charlie Clark, 19, of Las Vegas; junior Luke Slabber, 21, of Cape Town, South Africa; and freshman Carson Muir, 18, of Birmingham, Alabama, died in …

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Friday announced more than 500 new sanctions on Russia over its war in Ukraine and the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny last week in prison — the largest tranche since the conflict began, the administration said. Biden said the sanctions would target …

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A South African man who tortured an Alaska Native woman and narrated as he recorded a video of her dying was found guilty of first-degree murder on Thursday for killing her and another Native woman. The Anchorage jury returned a unanimous verdict against Brian Steven Smith after deliberating for …

SEATTLE — Prosecutors in Washington state said Wednesday they will not file felony charges against a Seattle police officer who struck and killed a graduate student from India while responding to an overdose call — a case that attracted widespread attention after another officer was recorded making callous remarks about it. Officer …

Millions of people have spent the last week refreshing one TikTok user’s page hoping to learn the answer to her now viral question: “Who TF did I marry?” Reesa Teesa, who requested NBC News not use her full name for safety reasons, captivated viewers with her 50-part, eight-hour series about …

An attorney for Donald Trump has asked New York Judge Arthur Engoron for a 30-day delay in enforcing the ruling Friday in the civil fraud case, which fined the former president and his company more than $350 million and temporarily barred him from doing business in the state. “Given that …

Federal prosecutors in New York on Wednesday said they charged a Japanese Yakuza leader with conspiring to traffic nuclear materials from Myanmar to other countries in the belief that they would be used by Iran to make a nuclear weapon. The accused gangster, Takeshi Ebisawa, “and his confederates showed samples …

Authorities in Oklahoma will release video from inside the school where the family of an LGBTQ student said the teen was attacked and assaulted in a bathroom one day before their death, police said Wednesday. Hallway cameras inside Owasso High School West Campus show the student, Nex Benedict, before and …

An Arizona prosecutor said Wednesday that her office will not extradite the man accused of killing a woman in a New York City hotel, calling out Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s “treatment of violent criminals.” Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell told reporters in Arizona that she’s ordered her staff not …

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Wednesday is canceling $1.2 billion in student debt for about 153,000 borrowers who took out relatively modest student loans and have been repaying it for the last decade or more. A borrower can qualify for the forgiveness if they’re enrolled in the administration’s Saving …