Gobi, the stray dog who captured hearts when she adopted her human Dion Leonard during a 155-mile race across China’s Gobi desert, will be featured in books and a movie depicting how the two met and bonded.

Inky the octopus waited until it was dark and the staff had gone home from the National Aquarium of New Zealand before making his move.

A suburban school bus driver was arrested after she allegedly purchased beer at a convenience store and drank it while picking up students during a morning bus route.

Scooter Braun doesn’t want any more bad blood with Taylor Swift. The 38-year-old manager expressed his desire to find resolution in an open letter to the artist posted via Instagram on Friday. “@taylorswift,” he began. “Since your public statement last week there have been numerous death threats directed at my family.”

“There is a huge pro-marijuana culture,” said Town Clerk Miranda Fisher. “And I would say not a lot of people have come out publicly to oppose it.”

Some “Survivor” viewers were outraged Wednesday night after a female contestant who accused a male player of inappropriate touching was ultimately voted off while the accused remained to compete for the million-dollar prize. CBS aired back-to-back episodes of “Survivor: Island of the Idols” on Wednesday night, titled “We made it to the merge,” in which the two disparate tribes become...

A food delivery person featured in a recent NBC 5 investigation and seen on video stealing property from a Near North Side condo building in September, is now charged with pulling a similar heist in July.

Boeing’s new chairman gave embattled CEO Dennis Muilenburg a vote of confidence Tuesday and said the chief executive is giving up any bonus this year. David Calhoun said the Boeing board believes Muilenburg “has done everything right” and is positioning the Chicago company to return the 737 Max to service after two accidents killed 346 people.

A Purdue University engineering student said he denied the purchase of over-the-counter cold medicine by a CVS employee who refused to accept his Puerto Rican driver’s license and U.S. passport as valid identification and questioned his immigration status. Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory and Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens by birth. José Guzmán Payano, a junior at Purdue, went...

One woman in her 80s tripped over another resident who had fallen on the landing in a steep stairwell. Others got turned around, even in their own apartments, and cried out for help. At least 20 seniors with wheelchairs and walkers were essentially trapped, in the dark, in a low-income apartment complex in Northern California during a two-day power shut-off...

Stephen Strasburg was voted MVP of the World Series following the Nationals’ 6-2 win over the Houston Astros in Game 7 on Wednesday night, the first title in the 51 seasons of the Washington/Montreal Expos franchise.

Yes, the Fall Classic finally showed up back in Washington, 86 years later — and, sparked by Springer and José Altuve, the Astros finally showed up in the Fall Classic. Springer had two of Houston’s four steals, Altuve doubled twice before scoring each time, Zack Greinke repeatedly worked out of trouble, and the Astros made sure they wouldn’t go quietly...

Boxer Patrick Day has died days after suffering a traumatic brain injury during a bout on Saturday at Chicago’s Wintrust Arena, according to manager Lou DiBella.

Aveda Adara, a 41-year-old transgender woman, said the mistreatment she faced due to her gender identity led her to quit her job at a major health care company just outside Houston, Texas. “I was constantly misgendered by managers, supervisors and employees,” Adara told NBC News. “My own manager would routinely discriminate against me, and nit pick and micromanage me.” Eventually,...

A Northern Virginia woman is suing a company that she says refused to hire her after she requested two five-minute breaks to pray during her work shift.