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A week after the not guilty verdict was delivered in the George Zimmerman trial, a large crowd of supporters for Trayvon Martin and his family gathered outside of the federal courthouse in Miami, Fla.

The stifling heat wave that has blanketed most of the country for six days is set to break on Saturday.

As news spread of Helen Thomas’ death Saturday, journalists and admirers paid homage to the trailblazing reporter who was a fixture at the White House daily briefings for decades.

Famed White House journalist Helen Thomas has died at the age of 92.The Gridiron Club and Foundation, a journalistic organization in Washington, D.C., confirmed Thomas' passing to NBC News on Saturday.

Let’s say you want to walk on a tightrope across the Grand Canyon without a tether or a net—in whose hands would you put your life? If you are Nik Wallenda, a Guinness Book of World Records-holder seven times over for acrobatic feats—including walking across Niagara Falls on a similar tightrope—you turn to union members.

One year after 12 people were slain and dozens more wounded in a massacre at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo.

The city of Aurora, Colo., will host various events Saturday as part of a day of remembrance honoring victims of the mass movie theater shooting that occurred one year ago.The day’s events begin at 7:30 a.m. MT with a community gathering on the lawn of the Aurora Municipal Center.

AURORA, Colo. — Inside the renovated and renamed theater where James Holmes shot 70 people, killing 12, some patrons gaze at the 3-D violence beaming on the colossal screen, yet silently mull the true horror that erupted in that darkened room one year ago.

News consumers in the U.S. can now hear and watch reports from one of the largest broadcasting groups in the world — after decades of their taxpayer dollars funding them.The change is due to a law, which went into effect on July 2, that authorizes an independent network of U.S.

Civil rights advocates — including Trayvon Martin's parents and brother — will attend vigils Saturday calling on the Justice Department to ramp up its investigation into the George Zimmerman case.