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Michelle Trachtenberg starred as Georgina on the CW show Gossip Girl and Dawn in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer series. She's pictured above in 2015.

Actress Michelle Trachtenberg, of 'Harriet the Spy' and 'Gossip Girl' dies at 39

The actress was found dead in an apartment in Manhattan on Wednesday, police said.

Westside Gunn belongs to a lineage of hustler rappers for whom street credibility often coexists with artful exaggeration. He released his latest album, 12, on Valentine's Day.

Hustler rappers like Gunn traffic in street tales that feel larger than life. That doesn't mean they're not "real."

The Trump administration has blocked the Associated Press from covering several of the president's events because it continues to refer to the body of water between Mexico and Florida as the Gulf of Mexico. Under President Trump's direction, the U.S. has renamed it the Gulf of America.

Court ruling lets White House ban on the Associated Press continue, for now

The Trump administration may continue — for now — to keep the AP from covering key events. A federal judge declined to issue a temporary restraining order on Monday.

Peggy Carr, commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, speaks about the testing program known as "The Nation's Report Card" during a 2022 interview.

Trump suspends the head of 'The Nation's Report Card'

Peggy Carr, a federal official who leads one of the country's most extensive student testing programs, known as The Nation's Report Card, was placed on administrative leave.

File photo of Robert W. McElroy, bishop of the diocese of San Diego, walking in St. Peter's Square to attend a conference on nuclear disarmament at the Vatican, Friday, Nov. 10, 2017.

Cardinal Robert McElroy bids farewell to San Diego

For 10 years, Cardinal Robert McElroy has been the head of the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego. In a few weeks, he will become head of the Archdiocese of Washington.

Acting interior minister Sirajuddin Haqqani, speaks during the funeral prayers of Khalil Haqqani, the minister for refugees and repatriation, during his funeral procession in eastern Paktia province, Afghanistan, Dec. 12, 2024.

The U.S. lifts bounties on senior Taliban officials, says Kabul

The U.S. has lifted bounties on three senior Taliban figures, including the interior minister, officials in Kabul said Sunday.

House votes to censure Texas Democrat Al Green for protest during Trump address

Texas Rep. Al Green, a Democrat, was officially censured Thursday in a vote in the House following his protest on Tuesday during President Trump's address to a joint session of Congress.

Prosecutors say 25 Canadians have been charged in connection with a multimillion dollar "grandparent scam" targeting elderly Americans nationwide.

Dozens of Canadians are charged for scamming American grandparents out of $21 million

The 25 Canadians are accused of calling seniors in over 40 states, pretending to be their grandchildren and asking for bail money. Authorities warn such scams are getting increasingly sophisticated.

In an MSNBC segment about Dr. Mahendra Amin's work at an immigration detention facility, Correspondent Jacob Soboroff asked a whistleblower, "You're quoting in the complaint as saying, 'That's his specialty, he's the uterus collector'."

NBC settles defamation lawsuit with doctor falsely labeled "uterus collector"

MSNBC had aired stories falsely claiming the doctor performed mass hysterectomies on female detainees at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Georgia.

Israel's culture minister calls a Palestinian-Israeli film's Oscar a 'sad moment'

The Oscar documentary win by the movie No Other Land is garnering very different reactions in Israel and the West Bank.

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