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Seventeen missionaries from the U.S. and Canada were abducted Saturday. The 400 Mawozo gang has been asking for $1 million per hostage.

"I’m disheartened to know that this day will live with [my daughter] as a memory forever," the child's mother wrote in a letter shared by the ACLU.

For the first time seven Black playwrights have shows running on Broadway. This news comes after many have pushed for more diversity on and off the stage. NBC News' Ron Allen has more.

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky signed off on booster shots for both the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccines.

Major Harris' mother was found killed last week, and the suspect in her death apparently died by suicide days later, police said.

Prosecutors say William George Davis injected several patients with air following heart surgeries and at least four patients died. NBC News' Morgan Chesky has more.

Major Fred Grooms Jr. returned home from deployment to surprise his son Fred Grooms III at his high school football game in Helena, Alabama. NBC News' Tom Llamas has more.

“It was scary — just the sheer fact of telling them something about me they didn’t know,” Curtis' daughter Ruby said.

A California teacher was placed on administrative leave after a student captured video of the teacher mocking Native Americans to teach a math problem. NBC News' Priscilla Thompson reports.

Officers said they responded this month to a report of a domestic disturbance in Henderson, Nevada, southeast of Las Vegas.

A second crew member on the New Mexico set was injured. Production on the film has been halted.