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Newsweek has apologized for an op-ed that questioned Sen. Kamala Harris’ U.S. citizenship and her eligibility to be Joe Biden’s running mate, a false and racist conspiracy theory

Brendan Dassey’s case has made national headlines since it was featured in the hit Netflix docu-series “Making a Murderer,” but he may have just gotten his most high-profile supporter.

Brendan Dassey’s case has made national headlines since it was featured in the hit Netflix docu-series “Making a Murderer,” but he may have just gotten his most high-profile supporter.

Attorneys for “Making a Murderer” subject Brendan Dassey have filed a petition for clemency in his case, asking the governor of Wisconsin to pardon or commute his sentence “on the basis of actual innocence and his extreme sentence.”

A Wisconsin inmate’s handwritten letter confessing to the murder of photographer Teresa Halbach, the woman whose death sparked Netflix’s “Making a Murderer” docu-series, has been released.

It started out as a joke but a petition to rename the Fifth Avenue block by Trump Tower to “President Barack H. Obama Avenue” had more than 302,000 signatures by Thursday afternoon — and a new mission calling for 325,000 signatures after the previous goal was surpassed.

Social media influencer Raymundo Diaz posted bail and was released from jail following his arrest on suspicion of sexual assault.

“Making a Murderer” subject Steven Avery will have his case re-examined by a Wisconsin court, his lawyer announced this week.

A top-rated high school in a Maryland suburb of Washington, D.C. is disciplining students found to have handed out paper passes giving “permission” to use a racial slur.

“Green Book” director Peter Farrelly said Wednesday that he’s deeply sorry and embarrassed after film website The Cut found a 20-year-old story where colleagues said Farrelly liked to flash his genitals as a joke.

It was a matter of life and death in 2015 when California Gov. Jerry Brown pondered an assisted suicide bill granting terminally ill people the right to choose when they die.

Newsweek’s former parent company IBT Media pleaded not guilty in New York on Thursday to charges that it manipulated finances in an effort to keep the magazine operational, NBC News reported. The charges from the Manhattan District Attorney’s office include fraud, money laundering and falsifying records, and detail a scheme to borrow money for computer equipment that was then funneled...

Language detectives say the key clues to who wrote the anonymous New York Times opinion piece slamming President Donald Trump may not be the odd and glimmering “lodestar,” but the itty-bitty words that people usually read right over: “I,” “of” and “but.” And lodestar? That could be a red herring meant to throw sleuths off track, some experts say. Experts...

Actress Ruth Wilson’s character in the show “The Affair” was killed off Sunday, raising questions about whether her departure was tied to comments she made about unequal pay earlier this year. The show depicts the emotional effects of an extramarital relationship, according to its description on Showtime’s website. Wilson plays a character named Alison, a waitress and wife “trying to...

His story was made famous in the Netflix documentary “Making a Murderer,” but on Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal of Brendan Dassey. NBC 5’s Marion Brooks has the details.

One of the most recognizable openings in television history blares on a video screen: “I’m Oprah Winfrey, and welcome to The Oprah Winfrey Show!” The crowd goes wild. At the center of it all, a dancing young Oprah. This moment, televised more than 30 years ago, is now part of a yearlong exhibition that opened Friday at the Smithsonian National...

A new exhibit at the Holocaust Memorial Museum looks at America’s response to the refugee crisis during World War II. News4’s Barbara Harrison went to the museum for a closer look at what the U.S. could have done.

Peggy Cooper Cafritz, a champion of social and racial justice, arts and education who co-founded the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, has died at age 70.

The offices of Newsweek magazine were raided last month by investigators from the Manhattan District Attorney’s office, and its chief content officer stepped down after sex harassment allegations. Now, as NBC News reported, some of its 60 New York-based employees are voicing fears about their long-term job security....
The company had recently been the subject of reporting from BuzzFeed that alleged...

A former employee of Michael Douglas has accused the Oscar-winning actor of sexual harassment, saying in her first television interview about the allegations that Douglas made her feel “very uncomfortable.” Writer Susan Braudy worked at Douglas’ production company for three years in the 1980s, when he was staring in critically acclaimed movies like “Wall Street” and “Fatal Attraction.” She told...