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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has criticized a lead doctor with the White House’s coronavirus taskforce for classifying the Chicago area as one of the top “hotspots” for cases in the nation. At a news conference Friday, Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House’s coronavirus response coordinator, classified the D.C. Metro area, Baltimore, Chicago and Minneapolis as the regions with the...

CDPH Commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady breaks down the latest coronavirus data for Chicago, expressing “cautious optimism” in the numbers.

After several rounds of chemotherapy and radiation treatment, NBC’s Kristen Dahlgren is cancer-free! The NBC News correspondent announced the exciting news on Twitter alongside a photo of herself wearing a protective face mask. “After 8 rounds of chemo and 25 rounds of radiation I AM DONE WITH CANCER TREATMENT!!” she wrote. “No hugs or high 5’s… not even a bell…

The coronavirus pandemic and its social repercussions are fueling violence, both by frustrated individuals and domestic terrorists, according to a new intelligence report by the Department of Homeland Security obtained by NBC News.

NBC News correspondent Kate Snow took to Twitter on Sunday night to explain her absence from the anchor chair on “Nightly News”: her husband, Chris Bro, is sick with coronavirus symptoms.

After spending five weeks traveling to Wuhan, China, Japan and the U.K. covering the coronavirus crisis followed by a self-quarantine inside her apartment for 14 days, NBC News correspondent Janis Mackey Frayer was reunited with her husband and young son this week for the first time in nearly 50 days.

At a press conference on Friday, President Donald Trump lashed out at NBC’s White House Correspondent Peter Alexander after asking what message the president had for Americans who were fearful of the coronavirus.

President Donald Trump and the Coronavirus Task Force held a press conference on Friday with updates on the government’s coronavirus response, including closing the borders to both Mexico and Canada. The president also expressed discontent with “fake news” surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, lashing out at NBC’s White House Correspondent Peter Alexander after being questioned about his message to fearful...

A longtime employee of NBC News died Thursday after testing positive for the coronavirus, NBC News Chairman Andy Lack said in an email to staff members.

Grammy award-winning artist Kelly Clarkson will host this year’s Clear the Shelters special, a 30-minute show recapping the NBC and Telemundo stations annual pet adoption drive. The program will air on NBC stations beginning Aug. 23 (check local listings).

The brother of Ohio State University whistleblower Mike DiSabato told state lawmakers in a public hearing Tuesday that Rep. Jim Jordan personally pleaded with him to intercede after DiSabato publicly accused the Republican congressman of turning a blind eye to the sexual abuse of male wrestlers by team doctor Richard Strauss, NBC News reported....For the full story, go to...

At this time of year, the film industry’s most important audience could fit in the two multiplexes in Times Square....

That’s because the 8,469 voting members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences wield the power to bestow the most prestigious and coveted awards in Hollywood. It’s not a coincidence that the first thank-you in most acceptance speeches —...

Shopping for illicit vape cartridges on Instagram is astonishingly simple. Open the app, plug in a hashtag such as #vapecartsforsale and — voilà — multiple posts appear with pictures of THC cartridges. In the comments or caption section, sellers advertise their products and post phone numbers for would-be buyers. “Shop here everything is good,” one seller wrote above a phone...

The documents detail an intelligence-gathering effort by the United States and Mexican authorities, targeting more than 50 people including journalists, an attorney, and immigration advocates.

The surveillance footage taken from outside Jeffrey Epstein’s jail cell on the day of his first apparent suicide attempt has been permanently deleted, NBC News reported. Epstein, the disgraced financier who was facing federal sex-trafficking charges, was found semiconscious in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in New York at about 1:27 a.m. on July 23. But that...

A sea of red, white and green flags filled the crowds of mostly young students and professionals from the Lebanese diaspora in lower Manhattan Thursday night, as the solidarity movement sweeping Lebanon spilled over into the United States. “We stand with you 5604 miles away,” read one sign at the protest in Washington Square Park. “Noble Lebnan” read another, while...

A performance artist on Monday defended his banana-eating work over the weekend at Art Basel in Miami Beach, boasting he would have done it even earlier but “I was not too hungry,” NBC News reported....

David Datuna stunned the art world on Saturday when he chowed down on a banana that was taped to a wall, a work titled “Comedian” by...

New documents set to be released could reveal whether Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh misled Congress during his confirmation hearing for his job as a judge on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, something two Democratic senators accused him of in 2007, according to NBC News. While under oath in 2006, Kavanaugh said he wasn’t involved in creating a terrorism...

Dwyane Wade responded to social media users who criticized the appearance of his 12-year-old son, Zion Malachi Airamis, in a recent family photo. The retired NBA star dismissed what he described as “post-Thanksgiving hate” in a tweet over the weekend. “Stupidity,” Wade wrote, is a part of “this world we live in — so I get it.” “But here’s the...