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'Utterly complete' destruction haunts Louisiana after back-to-back hurricanes

Chelsea Stahl / NBC News

Analysis

How the spread of 'superpredator' harmed a generation of Black youth

Courtesy Michelle Preble

Coronavirus

'Should be a no-brainer': This Thanksgiving, families forced to choose lesser of two evils

Adam Rogan / The Journal Times via AP file

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Kyle Rittenhouse says he used coronavirus stimulus check to buy AR-15 used in fatal shooting

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'Life and death decisions': Native American leaders prepare for hurdles in vaccine distribution

Pat Greenhouse / Boston Globe via Getty Images file

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Lori Loughlin's husband, Mossimo Giannulli, reports to prison for admissions scandal sentence

Michael Conroy / AP

Lethal Injection

Man who kidnapped, raped, buried Texas teen alive is executed

Coronavirus

Grief is 'everywhere': Coronavirus takes mental health toll on Latino families

Coronavirus

N.Y.C. mayor's reason for closing public schools was 'arbitrary,' adviser says

Coronavirus

First federal execution of a woman in decades halted after lawyers diagnosed with Covid