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Hamas informed negotiators on Monday that not all of the 33 hostages who would be freed in the first phase of a possible cease-fire deal with Israel are still living and that the remains of those who have died would be among the initial releases, according to two people familiar with the talks.

The disclosure came as part of Hamas’s counteroffer to Israel’s latest proposal, which envisions a first-phase, six-week cease-fire in exchange for the return of some of the hostages taken during the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks. It was not clear whether Hamas...

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu says the deal Hamas accepted does not meet the country's key demands.

First crewed space flight of Boeing's Starliner was postponed shortly before lift-off due to glitch.

Reversing one of her own decisions, the federal judge overseeing former President Donald J. Trump’s classified documents case granted his request on Monday to postpone the deadline for a crucial court filing in the criminal proceeding, increasing the chance that any trial would be pushed past the November election.

The ruling by the judge, Aileen M. Cannon, was made in a bare-bones order that contained no factual or legal reasoning. It did not schedule a new deadline but erased the one she had set almost a month ago ordering Mr. Trump’s lawyers to...

ABC News wants to hear from undecided voters ahead of the 2024 presidential election.

George city officials say two people have died and another 53 remain trapped after Monday's incident.

Lea Michelle, Zendaya and Gigi Hadid are among the stars walking the red carpet in New York.

The Argentine leader tells the BBC that the "political caste" is bearing the brunt of his reforms.

A U.S. Army soldier has been detained by Russian authorities in the port city Vladivostok on charges of criminal misconduct, the State and Defense Departments said on Monday, adding what is likely to be another complication in the contentious relationship between Moscow and Washington.

A military official identified the soldier as Staff Sgt. Gordon Black, 34, and said he was in the process of returning home to Fort Cavazos in Texas after being stationed in South Korea. He was apprehended on May 2, and Russia notified the State Department of the...

Three people died after they were allegedly served a poisonous mushroom meal in regional Victoria in 2023.

Video shows people jumping for joy and chanting joyously outside Al Aqsa hospital in Central Gaza.

Over the course of a few hours, the news from the Middle East came into the White House Situation Room fast and furious.

Israel orders 100,000 civilians out of Rafah in prelude to invasion.

Hamas “accepts” cease-fire deal, potentially precluding invasion.

Israel conducts strikes against Rafah, possibly opening invasion.

The war-is-on-off-on-again developments on Monday left White House officials scrambling to track what was happening and what it all meant. At the end of the day, they came to believe, each of the moves signaled less than...

For Louisiana Rep. Delisha Boyd, the uphill battle she faces to exempt pregnancies that are the result of rape and incest from Louisiana’s strict abortion ban is not just morally right — it’s also personal.

With a GOP-dominated legislative committee set to debate and vote on Boyd's exemption bill Tuesday, the Democratic New Orleans lawmaker has decided to publicly share her own story to underscore the importance of letting rape and incest survivors decide their own fates. If the bill advances, it will still have to make it through both...

Kentucky Republican Secretary of State Michael Adams, who worked to expand early voting in the Bluegrass State and has spoken out against election denialism in his own party, has been chosen to receive the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award this year.

In its announcement Monday, the JFK Library Foundation said Adams was recognized "for expanding voting rights and standing up for free and fair elections despite party opposition and death threats from election deniers."

MICHIGAN GOV. WHITMER TO RECEIVE JFK 'PROFILE IN COURAGE' AWARD DESPITE...

A fraternity at the University of Mississippi, where a member last week jeered a Black woman protester by appearing to make ape-like sounds and gestures, said the man has been expelled from the organization.

NBC News has not independently identified the former member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity, who was a part of a large, rowdy group that surrounded and badgered pro-Palestinian protesters at Ole Miss. But in a statement Sunday, the fraternity said it pinpointed the man captured in a viral video and disassociated itself from him.

“Phi Delta Theta...