Ukraine's KYIV Russia conducted a massive missile and drone attack on Ukraine's energy industry early Thursday, leaving over 700,000 homes and businesses without power throughout the icy country. Late Wednesday night, air raid sirens started to sound and continued to do so for over nine hours. Along with strollers, pets, and whatever small blankets they could carry, people across sought shelter in bomb shelters, subway stations, and even their own restrooms while they waited out the bombardment. Targeting the power grid coincides with the onset of cold weather, a strategy that Ukrainian officials and Western observers claim Russia intentionally uses. With fog in the air and snow already coating Kyiv's roofs, Thursday's temperature is predicted to remain below 35 degrees Fahrenheit. The u...

The Miami Dolphins appeared lifeless in the water a month ago. The squad was 2-6 and appeared to be closer to the No. 1 overall choice than the playoffs, even after quarterback Tua Tagovailoa returned from a concussion in Week 2 that kept him out of four games. Since then, Tagovailoa and the Dolphins have been on fire, winning three in a row and falling just 1 1/2 games short of the AFC's final postseason berth. Additionally, Tagovailoa has played some of his best football in the five weeks since his comeback, recording a 76.5% completion percentage, 11 touchdowns, one interception, and a passer rating of 116.2. Miami now resembles the squad that qualified for the playoffs the previous two seasons despite its flaws. However, none of the Dolphins' five wins this season have come against a c...

Many people have already arrived at their destinations for the Thanksgiving holiday, but for everyone else, a storm that is expected to move from the Rockies to the Midwest and Northeast into Thursday will bring rain and snow, which will probably affect flights and congested roadways. A record 71.7 million people were anticipated to travel by car during Thanksgiving, more than 1 million more than the previous year, and the Transportation Security Administration was slated to screen just under 3 million individuals on Wednesday. The storm is expected to speed eastward throughout Wednesday to the Midwest and Northeast through Thanksgiving after dropping snow over the Rockies Wednesday morning and slowing by the afternoon. Rain is expected to intensify in the evening from St. Louis to Indiana...

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...