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The director and the No. 2 official at the National Security Agency were ousted from their positions Thursday, according to a defense official and three sources with knowledge of the matter. It was not immediately clear why Air Force Gen. Timothy Haugh and his deputy were dismissed, the sources said. …

Tennessee’s workplace safety agency has absolved a plastics plant of responsibility in the deaths of six workers who were swept away by floodwaters from Hurricane Helene in September.  The Sept. 27 deaths gained national attention when community members and relatives of the mostly Latino plant employees questioned why they hadn’t …

Tony’s Chocolonely Inc. issued a voluntarily recall after consumers complained of “small stones” in their chocolate bars, the company announced this week Seven lots of Tony’s Dark Almond Sea Salt and Everything bars are named in the recall. Sold at popular retailers like Walmart and Target, the bars are being …

VILNIUS, Lithuania — A procession carrying the coffins of four American soldiers who died during a training exercise in Lithuania will proceed past the capital’s cathedral square Thursday. Government officials and religious leaders are expected to pay their last respects before the bodies are taken to the airport to be …

For nine months, Hailey Okula’s Instagram followers watched her balance the demands of her job with the happiness of preparing for her and her husband’s first child. Now, that same community is coming together to support her husband and their newborn son in the aftermath of her death. Okula, an ER …

WASHINGTON — A pivotal group of Senate Republicans on is set to deliver a symbolic rebuke to President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canadian products as he escalated his broader trade war on Wednesday. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, earlier Wednesday became the latest Republican to support a Democratic resolution to block Trump’s …

A transgender teacher in Texas resigned on Monday, less than a week after a state lawmaker called for her to be fired over a social media video in which she talks about feeling supported by her students. “I am heartbroken,” said Rosie Sandri, who taught sophomore English at Red Oak …

A desiccated 110-year-old lemon that played a key role in espionage history is one of the star attractions of a London exhibition drawn from the files of MI5, Britain’s domestic intelligence agency. Compact spy cameras, microdots in a talcum powder tin and a briefcase abandoned by fleeing Soviet spy Guy …

Susan Crawford has won a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, NBC News projects, allowing liberals to maintain their narrow majority on the battleground state’s highest court — and defying Elon Musk after he spent millions of dollars to oppose her. Crawford, a Dane County circuit judge who was backed …

When the walls of a vacant public building in Salt Lake City became a canvas to commemorate victims of police violence, the 8.5-acre area of town known as Fleet Block gave a “sense of cultural inclusion” to the city, which is predominantly white. “It’s for the wrong reason — death …