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It was a heart-stopping scene in Louisville, Kentucky. The cab of a crashed tractor-trailer precariously dangled from an overpass on I-65 — with the driver inside. He can be heard pleading for help in an emotional 911 call from Sunday morning.  “I’m just hanging over the bridge, I don’t want to …

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Vice President JD Vance’s half brother Cory Bowman placed second in Cincinnati’s mayoral primary on Tuesday, sending the Republican political newcomer into a faceoff with incumbent Aftab Pureval this fall. Pureval placed first in the nonpartisan three-way contest, in which third-place finisher Republican Brian Frank was eliminated. …

A second fighter jet was lost after falling over the side of the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier and into the Red Sea, two U.S. officials told NBC News. There were only minor injuries after the 2-seater, F-18 Super Hornet fell off the aircraft carrier as it was landing …

The Trump administration has terminated a federal advisory committee that issued guidance about preventing the spread of infections in health care facilities.   The Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) crafted national standards for hand-washing, mask-wearing and isolating sick patients that most U.S. hospitals follow.  Four committee members said the …

MARIETTA, Ga. — Mahendra Patel, a 57-year-old Georgia man facing charges of attempted kidnapping at an Atlanta-area Walmart, has been released on bond after spending six weeks in jail.  A superior court judge of the Cobb County Judicial Circuit set the bond at $10,000 Tuesday morning. Patel was accused in …

The communications breakdown last week that resulted in air traffic controllers losing radar and radio contact with the pilots of planes they were guiding into Newark Liberty International Airport has happened at least two other times since August, a current veteran controller told NBC News on Tuesday. And at least …

The motorist suspected of crashing a vehicle into the mansion gates of “Friends” star Jennifer Aniston repeatedly posted about the actor on social media. Jimmy Wayne Carwyle, 48, has been booked on suspicion of felony vandalism after allegedly driving his grey PT Cruisers into barriers outside her home in the …

In his new memoir, American businessman Barry Diller addressed for the first time decades of speculation about his sexuality and his marriage to fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg. Diller, the chairman and senior executive of IAC, an international media company, and chairman and senior executive of Expedia Group, an American …

A lawyer for the federal government and an appeals judge got into a heated exchange Tuesday when the lawyer could not answer whether detained Tufts University student Rumeysa Öztürk’s free speech is protected. Öztürk, who is from Turkey, was apprehended by immigration authorities on the streets of a Boston suburb …

Percival Everett’s novel “James,” his radical reimagining of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” from the perspective of the enslaved title character, has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. “Purpose,” Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ drawing-room drama about an accomplished Black family destroying itself from within, won for drama. It also earned six Tony …