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Following the holiday travel chaos that canceled nearly 17,000 flights, Lester Holt spoke one-on-one with Southwest CEO Bob Jordan on the Department of Transportation’s investigation and how the airline is trying to prevent future issues.

Though state legislatures considered over 300 bills targeting LGBTQ rights last year, a new report from the Human Rights Campaign found that just 29 became law.

The remains found Jan. 17 in rural Grady County were determined to belong to Athena Brownfield, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation said Thursday.

Reed's ouster was the “the tipping point” for students already frustrated with living conditions at the historically Black university campus, one student leader said.

Coradarlius Sledge said Demetrius Haley beat him during a search because he had a contraband phone.

Nichols, 29, died three days after Memphis police pulled him over and allegedly beat him. Video of the encounter will be released after 6 p.m. local time Friday.

Jurors deliberated for about seven hours over two days before finding Sayfullo Saipov guilty in a Halloween attack inspired by his reverence for the Islamic State militant group.

The defensive end played one season with the Lions and one with the Chargers.

The administration's suggested update for race and ethnicity definitions would no longer classify people of Middle Eastern or North African descent as "white."

The Justice Department said Chance Seneca, 21, tried to mimic the homicides of gay men committed by the serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer.