Workers at shelters in the Houston area say some animals respond to a variety of spoken languages

NBC and Telemundo stations across the country will team up with hundreds of shelters nationwide on Aug. 18 for the fourth annual Clear the Shelters animal adoption drive.

Jane Lynch is throwing a party and she’s inviting all her four-legged friends. You’re invited too. Lynch is joining NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations’ nationwide pet adoption initiative Clear the Shelters as both spokesperson and host of the “Clear the Shelters” TV special that will air on Aug. 25. on NBC and Telemundo stations. The program will recap this year’s adoption...

A New Jersey hospital mistakenly gave a kidney transplant to the wrong patient who happens to have the same name as the intended recipient.

Melanie Whelan is resigning from her position as chief executive officer of SoulCycle, effective Tuesday, the company told CNBC Make It. Both sides felt it was time for a leadership transition, according to a person briefed on the decision who asked not to be named because those discussions were private. A spokesperson for SoulCycle declined to comment on the impetus...

A widow is suing Maryland state officials after receiving the wrong remains for her husband who had donated his body to science.

With no signs of compromise on either side of the isle, the partial government shutdown entered day 24 on Monday. Two Massachusetts members of Congress say given the bipartisan support in Congress on immigration issues, it’s really about President Donald Trump who won’t take “yes” for an answer.

Crews fought a fire at Hasbro Children’s Hospital in Providence.

A spokesperson for Starbucks says the suit is without merit.

In September, Amer Fakhoury closed his New Hampshire restaurant to take his first vacation in years to visit family in his native Lebanon — a country he hadn’t been to for nearly two decades. He hasn’t returned to the United States. Soon after his arrival in Lebanon, the 57-year-old American citizen was detained by authorities and remains jailed there. Doctors...

Senior Trump administration official Mina Chang resigned from her job at the State Department two and a half hours after NBC News went to her spokesperson to ask about newly discovered false claims she had made about her charity work. NBC News had previously reported that Chang, the deputy assistant secretary in the State Department’s Bureau of Conflict and Stability...

The baby and mother who were trapped on the third floor of a burning building in Worcester, Massachusetts, where a firefighter died Wednesday are recovering, according to a city spokesperson. The mother, whose identity has not been released, was hospitalized after the four-alarm blaze.

A “youth host” on a Disney Cruise ship accused of molesting a young boy during a cruise earlier this year is set to go to trial in Miami-Dade later this month, and prosecutors are looking for more alleged victims.

All 39 people found dead in a refrigerated container truck in England last week were Vietnamese nationals, British police said, as three more people were arrested in Ireland and Vietnam in the sprawling international investigation into what appears to be a people-smuggling tragedy. British detectives initially said the victims discovered near the southeast port of Purfleet on Oct. 23 were...

Here comes the… controversy. Australian Kmart — which has no relation to U.S. Kmart — yanked a child bride Halloween costume after more than 500 people signed an online petition claiming that it normalizes sex trafficking. “A child bride costume currently exists on Kmart shelves in children’s sizes. Tell Kmart this is beyond inappropriate and offensive and that they have...

The number of young Americans watching online videos every day has more than doubled, according to survey findings released Tuesday. They’re glued to them for nearly an hour a day, twice as long as they were four years ago. And often, the survey found, they’re seeing the videos on services such as YouTube that are supposedly off limits to children...

Transportation officials were set to unveil a new, centralized location for rideshares at Boston Logan International Airport, Tuesday, ahead of major changes for travelers using apps such as Uber and Lyft scheduled to take effect next week.

Former NBC News employees who signed nondisclosure agreements with the network and believe they experienced sexual harassment are free to tell their stories, NBCUniversal said in a new statement Friday. The statement was first reported by MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow minutes before an interview with Ronan Farrow, the investigative journalist who chronicles his reporting on sexual misconduct allegations against former film...