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“A part of him will always be with me,” Reid Alexander, 24, said of Rafael Díaz, his husband and organ donor.

Pilot Nicholas Meleski died along with his four passengers after the balloon descended in the sky above Albuquerque, hit power lines and crashed into a busy intersection.

One key to preventing abusive culture is to pay closer attention to staff members: Do they hate their jobs? Do they feel safe at work?

The federal government is working with Covid-19 vaccine manufacturers to reduce the number of doses per vial, amid growing concerns about wasted vaccines.

“The judge just threw 300 survivors in a trash can,” said Steve Snyder-Hill, a victim of Dr. Richard Strauss.

The U.S. territory raised its minimum wage for the first time in years, but it still may not be enough to make up for the island's high cost of living, experts say.

Raymond Jones went missing while bow hunting in September 1968 and was never seen again. Another bow hunter found his remains last week near the city of Salmon.

A New Yorker won $432 million from the Mega Millions jackpot. The winning ticket was purchased at Pronto Pizza near Rockefeller Center. 

Former Vice President Al Gore sounded the alarm about the climate crisis in the 2006 Oscar-winning film “An Inconvenient Truth.” 15 years after its release, Gore tells Lester Holt that the “crisis is getting worse, much faster than we are yet mobilizing solutions for it.”

Supply chain backlogs are making it hard to get products on the shelves, so many small businesses are stocking up in anticipation of holiday shipping delays. Major retailers are chartering their own private cargo vessels to skirt the problem.

Willie Garson, who starred as Stanford Blatch on “Sex and the City,” appeared in some 70 movies and 300 TV episodes. Garson said his biggest accomplishment in life was adopting his son.