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Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Celebration

Culture Matters

From backyard colossus to Midtown jewel: Journey of the Rock Center Christmas tree

See the transformation as a tree from humble roots becomes a celebrated Christmas symbol.

Dancers bathed in sunlight perform along Central Park.

Yuki Iwamura / AFP - Getty Images

U.S. news

Photos: Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade soaks up the sun

Pennsylvania Democratic Gubernatorial candidate Josh Shapiro speaks to supporters at a campaign rally

Jeff Swensen for NBC News

2022 Election

Six days, 25 stops: Josh Shapiro sprints across Pennsylvania with Democrats’ hopes along for the ride

Shannah Henderson speaks during Brooklyn Preparatory High School’s African American studies AP course

Marc J. Franklin / NBC News

U.S. news

AP African American Studies course is a ‘game changer’ for the Brooklyn students who fought for it

Nikon Small World

Weird Science

Nikon photo contest reveals fantastic microscopic world that surrounds us

From left, Members of the University of Colorado student group United Mexican American Students y MECHA Sonia Espinosa, Jaqueline Rangel, Jessica Valadez Fraire, and Mateo Vela stand next to Los Seis de Boulder monument in Boulder, Colo. on campus on Apr. 7, 2022.

Michael Ciaglo for NBC News

Latino

Why aren't more Latino students enrolled in their states' flagship universities?

Uchenna Ihekwereme at the University of Georgia

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NBCBLK

Why aren't flagship universities enrolling more of their own states' Black students?

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U.K. Royals

Meet those willing to spend at least 12 hours in line to say their final goodbyes to Queen Elizabeth

Jari Jones attends the dapperQ fashion show

Bronson Farr for NBC News

OUT News

The ‘largest queer fashion’ show returns to kick off New York Fashion Week

Royalty - Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee - Tour of Great Britain

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Photo

Photos: The life and times of Queen Elizabeth II

Members of a Black outlaw motorcycle club ride down the FDR Drive in New York. "Ezy Ryders," a photography book by Cate Dingley, documents New York's Black motorcycle clubs.

NBCBLK

New York's all-Black motorcycle clubs rule the road across the five boroughs

Hubble / James Webb / NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI

Data Graphics

Hubble vs. Webb: See side-by-side comparisons of the iconic telescope images

James Webb telescope first images.

NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI

Space

First batch of James Webb Space Telescope images and data released by NASA

This image, known as "Webb's First Deep Field," is the first full-color image released from the next-generation James Webb Space Telescope. It is the sharpest infrared image of the distant universe ever produced, according to NASA.

Space Telescope Science Institute / NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERO

Space

The Webb telescope's first full-color photo is here — and it's stunning

Protesters take over the official residence of Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaska.

World

Sri Lanka's presidential palace, a symbol of opulence as the economy is in ruins, is overtaken by protesters