David Evans’ shooting death, while he was asleep in his bed, prompted sensational headlines, portraying the alleged crime as a love triangle that devolved into murder. But interviews with his wife, Kristie Evans, and her relatives — and a review of private Facebook messages between the couple that their daughter provided to NBC News — offer a window into a relationship that was far different than the one he portrayed to the world.
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When Covid forced employers to go remote, it opened up the possibility of a nomadic lifestyle to entirely new groups of people. Now, despite employers setting dates for in-person returns, some digital nomads who embraced their newfound work-life flexibility, don't want to go back.
Summer on Seneca Lake, the largest of the Finger Lakes in upstate New York, is usually a time of boating, fishing, swimming, and wine tasting. But for many residents of this bucolic region there's a new activity this season: protesting a power plant feeding a Bitcoin mining operation said to be polluting the air and heating the lake.
If a 2008 Florida law that required condos to plan for repairs had still been in place, "this never would have happened," said the legislator who sponsored the law. SURFSIDE, Fla. — Late last year, after years of delays and disputes, the Champlain Towers South Condominium Association began a …
After a spate of judges have been reprimanded for using social media in partisan and inappropriate ways, experts, who believe this behavior is being stoked by the nation's political divide and the pervasiveness of social media, say that it's time for states to update their social media guidelines across the courts.
Analysis: The former president's lawsuits against social media giants Facebook, Twitter and Google turn the Constitution on its head. That's why they are likely to fail. WASHINGTON — There are probably more effective ways for former President Donald Trump to unlock his social media accounts than …
Chile’s young democracy is poised to make history by creating the world’s first constitution drafted by an equal number of women and men. The county’s current 1980 constitution stands as a relic of Augusto Pinochet’s brutal military dictatorship, which resulted in the execution or disappearance of over 3,000 people and major steps back in the legal rights of women.
Nikole Hannah-Jones made waves when she chose Howard University over UNC-Chapel Hill. But she's one of countless educators who see a bigger purpose in teaching at HBCUs Not long after she returned to Howard University as a professor in 2013, Jennifer Thomas found herself overcome with emotion. Tears …
Asian Americans make up two-thirds of Buddhists in the U.S. but have long been marginalized in popular perceptions of the religion. A new generation is pushing back. When Mihiri Tillakaratne was young, a white scholar visited the Sri Lankan Buddhist temple she had grown up at. The Los Angeles temple …
The highly transmissible variant now accounts for more than 50 percent of new Covid-19 cases. Here is the latest.
A cybercriminal gang’s spree over the Fourth of July weekend infected more than 1,500 organizations with ransomware. But it’s not the number of victims that’s keeping experts up at night. The gang used a worrisome new level of planning and sophistication, experts say.