First Read: Latest NBC News/Marist polls show statistical tie in critical Michigan; Romney with comfortable lead in Arizona ahead of Tuesday’s primaries.
A packed train slammed into the end of the line in a Buenos Aires station, killing 49 people and injuring hundreds of commuters in Argentina's worst train accident in decades.
American journalist Marie Colvin and French photographer Remi Ochlik were killed Wednesday in the Syrian city of Homs, opposition activists and a French official said.
Seven people were killed in clashes between Afghan security forces and protesters angry over the burning of Muslim holy books at a NATO military base, an official said Wednesday.
Contaminated dirty surgical instruments, such as endoscopes used for colonoscopies, have led to infection outbreaks in hospitals nationwide, according to a report by the Center for Public Integrity and NBC News.
It’s a vicious cycle. Many families in this country cannot afford the skyrocketing cost of higher education without student loans. But many graduates can't find a job to pay off the loans.
Authorities in the Atlanta area searched Wednesday for two children who were reported kidnapped by a stranger who offered to help the family when their car broke down on the side of an interstate highway.
An American television producer has been found dead in mysterious circumstances while working in Uganda, his brother-in-law told msnbc.com on Wednesday.
Chicago’s Cook County Jail, a harsh holding cell stuffed with up to 11,000 prisoners at any given time, is about to become even more crowded, according to The Chicago News Cooperative.
Honda is recalling nearly 46,000 Odyssey minivans in the U.S. because the rear doors can fall on people unexpectedly, and have on at least two occasions.
The European Commission, facing steep opposition, has suspended efforts to ratify a new international anti-counterfeiting agreement — instead referring it to Europe's highest court to see whether it violates any fundamental EU rights.
Identity thieves have regained the upper hand, suggests a new survey released Wednesday by fraud research firm Javelin Strategy & Research. The firm's annual survey of 5,000 consumers suggests a rise in the rate of ID theft during 2011, reversing a drop in identity-related that was found in last year's survey. The main cause of the new increase: A return to old-fashioned credit card fraud.
A woman has become the first victim of bullets flying across the border from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, into El Paso, Texas, the Associated Press reported.
A man was arrested over the weekend after workers said he attacked them in front of the Tower of Terror ride at Disney's California Adventure Park in Anaheim.
