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Will marijuana use eventually become legal across the country? A new Pew Research Center survey finds 75-percent of Americans believe marijuana legalization is inevitable, whether they personally support or oppose its sale or use.
A magnitude-7.6 quake struck northern Chile, triggering tsunami alerts and evacuations. It came on the heels of Tuesday’s massive earthquake, which killed six people.
It's time to begin cleaning up as a seemingly endless winter appears to have finally given way to the beginnings of spring.Spokane Parks and Recreation workers gave winter the boot on Tuesday, using industrial leaf blowers to clear winter debris and leaves from Audubon Park in Spokane, Wash.
According to the Associated Press, the U.S. has been running a covert Twitter-like operation in Cuba designed to build support against the Castro government. NBC chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell reports
Carol the elephant, who recovered from being shot in 2013, will return the scene of the crime Thursday night when she performs in Tupelo, Miss.
A doctor treating victims of the shooting at Fort Hood said he hopes "the acts of madness” don't taint the nation's perception of the military base.
The common conservative claim about the minimum wage is that there's no real need to raise it because most of the people who get it are teenagers who are just taking the jobs to build their résumé or for extra spending money, and people don't live off the wage. Once again, evidence comes forward to help shatter that stereotype: Nearly half a million people who have graduated college currently work in jobs that pay the federal minimum wage of $7.25.
Good morning, and happy Thursday. Here are six of the top stories we are following this morning at NBC News:1. Iraq veteran goes on fatal shooting rampage at Fort HoodThe gunman, identified as 34-year-old Ivan Lopez, killed three colleagues and wounded 16 others, some critically, officials said.
A shooting spree at Fort Hood, Texas, left four people dead, including the gunman, and 16 wounded. The soldier, Ivan Lopez, 34, served four months in Iraq and was being treated for mental illness. NBC’s Gabe Gutierrez reports.
Three military members remained hospitalized in critical condition early Thursday after they were wounded in the deadly shooting rampage at Fort Hood, officials said.Six others were also in hospital, where their condition was still "serious but stable,” at 6 a.m.
