NBC News - Breaking News & Top Stories - Latest World, US & Local News | NBC News

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks on the Capitol on Sept. 14, 2021.

J. Scott Applewhite / AP file

Congress

Democrats take aim at GOP blocks on Biden diplomatic nominees

Image:

Matt Slocum / AP file

U.S. news

How a Southern utility guards its monopoly — and endangers the power grid, critics say

China Evergrande Group's Sea Venice Development

Qilai Shen / Bloomberg via Getty Images

World

A property giant in China is on the brink of collapse. The government might let it fail.

Top Stories

Latest news

Image: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene

Tom Williams / CQ Roll Call via AP file

Group of people having meeting

Kerkez / Getty Images/iStockphoto

Simu Liu stars as Shang-Chi in Marvel Studios' \"Shang-Chi and The Legend of the Ten Rings.\"

Image: Ron DeSantis

Eva Marie Uzcategui / Getty Images file

Image: Masked attendees watch The Moth true personal storytelling show live-streamed from St. Ann's Church on April 21, 2021 in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Michael Loccisano / Getty Images

Image: Officials unload election equipment into the Veterans Memorial Coliseum at the state fairgrounds in Phoenix, on April 21, 2021

Matt York / AP file

Politics

Image: Joe Biden

Demetrius Freeman / The Washington Post via Getty Images file

Analysis

Biden needs a win — or two

Image: Mitch McConnell walks to his office at the Capitol on Aug. 5, 2021.

Evelyn Hockstein / Reuters file

Congress

Why the GOP is threatening to block the debt limit extension

Image: A pharmacist holds pills of Misoprostol, a drug that can be used to induce abortions, in Provo, Utah, in 2019.

George Frey / Reuters file

Politics News

How people are getting around the new Texas abortion law

Congress

Congress has given up on police reform. Both sides agree about what went wrong.

Elections

The GOP's election review in Arizona is over. Its influence is just beginning, experts say.

Congress

Congress has given up on police reform. Both sides agree about what went wrong.

Elections

The GOP's election review in Arizona is over. Its influence is just beginning, experts say.

Image: A health worker shows the media how she prepares a dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine to be administered to a patient at a vaccination center set up in front of Rome's Termini central station on March 8, 2021.

Alessandra Tarantino / AP file

Coronavirus

Smaller vials could curb vaccine waste. But they could cause another problem, experts warn.

Image: Chicago on Broadway

Culture Matters

First Tonys after Broadway's reopening — and reckoning — brings hope to Latino actors

The Taiwanese American Citizens League's Write in Taiwanese Census Campaign encouraged Taiwanese Americans to self-identify on the 2020 survey.

Courtesy of Taiwanese American Citizens League

Asian America

Self-identified Taiwanese lumped in with Chinese in Pew report, prompting backlash

Top videos

Editors' picks

Most read this week

Southlake podcast

City Hall and Town Square in Southlake, Texas.

Episode 5

School board election becomes a referendum on diversity plan

Carroll Administration Center in Southlake, Texas.

Nitashia Johnson / for NBC News

Episode 4

The circus comes to town

Image: Homes in Southlake, Texas.

Nitashia Johnson / for NBC News

Episode 3

The Not-So-Silent Majority

Episode 2

Just a Word

Episode 1

Home of the Dragons

Inside Southlake

Texas suburb at center of a critical race theory battle looks forward

World

Social Democratic Party supporters react after first exit polls for the general elections in Berlin, Germany, on Sept. 26, 2021.

Hannibal Hanschke / Reuters

World

German vote nearly even for Merkel's bloc, Social Democrats

Former Rwandan army colonel Theoneste Bagosora sits before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in December 2008.

Reuters / Reuters

World

Rwandan genocide 'kingpin' Bagosora dies in Mali prison, sources say

Image:

World

Taliban hang bodies of alleged kidnappers in heart of Afghan city

China

China's Xi warns of 'grim' Taiwan situation in letter to opposition leader

U.S. news

U.S. detains 14 Mexican soldiers who accidentally crossed border

China

China's Xi warns of 'grim' Taiwan situation in letter to opposition leader

U.S. news

U.S. detains 14 Mexican soldiers who accidentally crossed border

Business, Tech & Media

Illustration of power plant smoke stacks and Bitcoin tokens.

Chelsea Stahl / NBC News; Getty Images

Tech News

It takes a lot of energy to mine Bitcoin. That's good news for states like Texas, Kentucky.

Shoppers outside a Costco Wholesale store on Sept. 5, 2021, in Orlando, Fla.

Phelan M. Ebenhack / AP

Consumer

From Christmas trees to kids' lunches, product shortages continue to hamper shoppers

Image: A United Airlines Airbus 320-232 at Dulles Washington International Airport in Dulles, Va., on Aug. 14, 2021.

Daniel Slim / AFP via Getty Images

Business News

United Airlines fined $1.9 million for long tarmac delays, in largest-ever penalty

Culture Matters

What experts think about TikTok's new mental health features

Security

Port of Houston target of suspected nation-state hack

Culture Matters

What experts think about TikTok's new mental health features

Security

Port of Houston target of suspected nation-state hack

NBC OUT

NBCBLK

Asian America

Latino

Two image of siblings carving out pumpkins at the kitchen table

filmstudio / Getty Images ; Sally Anscombe / Getty Images

Man mowing grass on riding mower

NoDerog / Getty Images

Man serving food to guests at dinner party in field, during the fall

The Good Brigade / Getty Images

Aerial view of a young woman relaxing by the infinity pool, pool blue bubble protection texture, Intex Solar Cover and a pool showing the Blue Wave pool cover

Jarin13 / Getty Images ; AleksandarNakic / Getty Images ; Amazon

Science

Images from Ole Schell's butterfly preserve on his ranch in Bolinas, Calif.

Clara Mokri for NBC News

Environment

A psychedelic awakening led a former Navy SEAL on a mission to save monarch butterflies

Image: FILE PHOTO: People commute on boats to Port Vila, capital city of the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu

EDGAR SU / Reuters

Climate in Crisis

Vanuatu to push international court for opinion on protection from climate change

NBC News NOW

‘You can’t find work here’: Guatemalan farmers say climate change forcing them to migrate to U.S.

Image: molnupiravir

Coronavirus

A daily pill to treat Covid could be just months away, scientists say

Climate in Crisis

Ghost forests creep up U.S. East Coast

Climate in Crisis

California Gov. Newsom commits $15B to combat wildfire, drought and climate change

Science News

Stone Age footprints are earliest evidence of humans in North America

BETTER

Courtesy Joy Bauer

Eat Better TODAY

Welcome fall with Joy Bauer's pumpkin spice latte and hearty harvest bowl

White Collar

Robert Ascroft / NBCU / via Getty Images

Health & Wellness

Why is pancreatic cancer so deadly? How to spot early signs and more

TODAY Illustration / Getty ImagesTODAY Illustration / Stephanie Mansour

Diet & Fitness

Tone your butt and improve your posture with this 1 move

today

What’s the difference between a 3rd vaccine shot and a booster shot?

Diet & Fitness

Can yoga help you lose weight? Diet and fitness experts weigh in

today

What’s the difference between a 3rd vaccine shot and a booster shot?

Diet & Fitness

Can yoga help you lose weight? Diet and fitness experts weigh in

We apologize, we were unable to find your local news. Please try another location.

See local affiliates