Authorities reported Wednesday that during the Thanksgiving travel crunch, a stowaway evaded security checks and was caught on a flight from New York to Paris. On Tuesday, the unnamed woman was traveling on Delta flight 264 from New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport to Paris' Charles de Gaulle Airport. After the plane touched down in Paris, she was taken off by police, an insider with knowledge of the incident told NBC News. Bypassing two "identity verification and boarding status stations and boarding the aircraft," the woman who boarded the flight without a ticket, according to a statement from a Transportation Security Administration official. According to the spokeswoman, she passed a thorough security check prior to boarding, indicating that she was not a security risk and ...

Albuquerque, New Mexico. In a medical malpractice case involving a men's health clinic that operates in multiple states, jurors in New Mexico have given a man almost $412 million. The man's lawyers applauded Monday's decision, expressing their hope that it will shield other men from being victims of a scam involving deception and what they called risky penile injections. According to them, the sum of the punitive and compensatory damages is the highest sum ever given by a jury in a medical malpractice case in the United States. This lawsuit has established a national record and is morally righteous since, in my opinion, there is no justification for qualified professionals to swindle patients out of their money. According to Lori Bencoe, one of the attorneys who represented the plaintiff...

Ray Epps, a Trump supporter, filed a defamation lawsuit against Fox News, but the judge rejected it on Wednesday, ending the year-long legal struggle. In a July 2023 complaint, Epps, a Jan. 6 defendant, claimed that Fox News presented a "fantastical story" about Epps' role as an undercover FBI agent who incited violence during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. In addition to being the subject of right-wing conspiracy theories, the Trump supporter appeared in numerous Fox News segments, many of which were hosted by Tucker Carlson at the time. In the initial complaint, Epps claimed that Fox News, "and particularly Mr. Carlson, commenced a years-long campaign spreading falsehoods about Epps." The complaint went on to say, "Those lies have destroyed Ray's and Robyn's lives," alludi...

While Thanksgiving may be chilly and rainy in many parts of the nation, some Americans may be able to see the northern lights during solar storms. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a filament eruption on Monday caused the sun to shoot a cloud of high-energy plasma toward Earth, increasing the likelihood of minor to major geomagnetic storms on Thursday and Friday. The likelihood of the night skies in the United States turning green, crimson, and purple for Thanksgiving is presently being brought about by that eruption. "The strength of the solar storms and whether they reach G1 or G2 conditions at all will determine how bright the auroras are and how long they stay in the skies," NOAA meteorologist Mike Bettwy wrote in an email. "This is not expected t...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are seen negatively by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. In 2019, he accused the federal agency's vaccine division of intentionally harming children and referred to it as a fascist company. He also likened the extensive conspiracy he perceived to conceal the negative effects of the childhood immunization program to the Catholic Church's cover-up of child sex abuse. Kennedy claimed in previously unreported statements to a private audience at AutismOne, a conference for parents of autistic children, in 2019 that the Italian word fascism means a bundle of sticks, and that the bundle is more essential than the sticks. The CDC, the organization, and the vaccination program are more significant than the kids they are meant to safeguard. He went on to say that ...

Ray Epps, a Trump supporter, filed a defamation lawsuit against Fox News, but the judge rejected it on Wednesday, ending the year-long legal struggle. In a July 2023 complaint, Epps, a Jan. 6 defendant, claimed that Fox News presented a "fantastical story" about Epps' role as an undercover FBI agent who incited violence during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. The Trump backer was the subject of right-wing conspiracy theories and appeared in numerous Fox News segments, many of which were hosted by Tucker Carlson at the time. In the initial complaint, Epps claimed that Fox News, "and particularly Mr. Carlson, commenced a years-long campaign spreading falsehoods about Epps." The complaint went on to say, "Those lies have destroyed Ray's and Robyn's lives," alluding to Epps and hi...

According to a spokesperson for the Trump transition team, a number of President-elect Donald Trump's intended Cabinet candidates and administration personnel were the targets of "swatting" attacks and bomb threats on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. "Violent, un-American threats against their lives and those who live with them" were directed at the nominees and appointees. In a statement, transition spokesperson Karoline Leavitt stated, "These attacks ranged from swatting to bomb threats." Swatting is when someone calls the police pretending that something life-threatening is happening. It can have fatal consequences and is intended to attract SWAT teams to a site. These were not credible threats, according to three senior law enforcement officials who briefed NBC News on the swatting...

On Wednesday night, Alabama A&M officials expressed regret for incorrectly declaring football player Medrick Burnett Jr. dead. Following what the HBCU's athletic department described as a "unfortunate occurrence," the 20-year-old player passed away after it was "originally advised by an immediate family member on Tuesday evening," according to a since-deleted online announcement. The sports department announced Wednesday night that "we learned that he remains alive after speaking with a representative from UAB hospital this afternoon." "We sincerely apologize for spreading misleading information, but we are delighted to hear that Medrick's condition is stable. During a game last month, Burnett suffered a significant injury. Burnett's family reported many brain bleeds and swelling in an...

A source familiar with the situation told Reuters on Wednesday that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission has launched a comprehensive antitrust probe into Microsoft, encompassing its cloud computing and software licensing operations. NBC News received confirmation of the probe from a source. Prior to her anticipated departure in January, FTC Chair Lina Khan approved the inquiry. The investigation's conclusion is uncertain because Donald Trump was elected president of the United States and it is anticipated that he would name a fellow Republican who has a more lenient stance toward business. According to sources earlier this month, the FTC is looking into claims that the software behemoth may be abusing its market dominance in productivity software by enforcing harsh license conditions to stop...

On Wednesday, a State Department official announced the release of three American nationals who had been imprisoned in China for years. They are John Leung, Kai Li, and Mark Swidan. Long Island, New York native Li, 62, was arrested in 2016 and given a 10-year term in 2018 on espionage allegations that his family claims are unfounded. Swidan, a 40-year-old Texas businessman who had been in custody since 2012, was found guilty of drug-related accusations that a United Nations working group deemed lacked evidence, and in 2019 he was given a death sentence with a reprieve. The State Department deemed Li and Swidan "wrongfully detained". Last year, a court in eastern China found John Leung, a 70-year-old American with permanent citizenship in Hong Kong, China, guilty of espionage and sentenced ...