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President Joe Biden’s puppy Commander will make his TV debut on Super Bowl Sunday.

President Joe Biden on Monday introduced the newest member of his family, a purebred German shepherd puppy named Commander, while the first lady’s office said the cat she promised more than a year ago to bring to the White House will finally join them in January.

Police need help identifying the driver of a red Mini Cooper that struck a bicycle head on in Silver Lake, seriously injuring the rider. The driver is not cooperating with authorities, but police said Thursday that the car was owned by an employee of the Los Angeles Unified School District.

The Los Angeles Police Department is asking for help identifying the driver of a Mini Cooper involved in a hit and run with a bicyclist on Oct. 25. The suspect is in custody but police are unable to confirm his identity as he is not cooperating with authorities.

The shadowy leader of the Islamic State group who presided over its global jihad and became arguably the world’s most wanted man, is dead after being targeted by a U.S. military raid in Syria, President Donald Trump said Sunday. “Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead,” Trump announced at the White House, saying the U.S. had “brought the world’s number one terrorist...

Maybe it was a quid pro quo after all. A top U.S. diplomat told House impeachment investigators on Tuesday that President Donald Trump was withholding military aid to Ukraine unless the country’s president went public with a promise to investigate Democrats. William Taylor’s 15-page opening statement — delivered as part of a closed-door deposition — is now central to the...

William Taylor, a top diplomat to Ukraine, testified to Congress on Tuesday that President Donald Trump withheld security aid in exchange for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s investigation into the Biden family.

The cease-fire in northern Syria got off to a rocky start Friday, as Kurdish leaders accused Turkey of violating the accord with continued fighting at a key border town while casting doubt on provisions in the U.S.-brokered deal with Ankara. Turkey’s president warned that Turkish forces would go back on the attack in four days unless Kurdish-led fighters withdraw “without...

Vice President Mike Pence announced a negotiated temporary cease-fire in Syria. The agreement comes after a weeklong invasion by Turkey into the region against Kurdish allies of the U.S. military. 

Dramatic surveillance video shows a DC Housing Authority employee shot to death during his lunch break Thursday in Southeast D.C. tried to run from the gunman.

Ohio’s capital city agreed Friday to pay porn actress Stormy Daniels $450,000 to settle a lawsuit over her arrest at a strip club last year, the latest fallout traced to the city’s now-disbanded vice unit. Daniels’ federal defamation complaint against several Columbus officers alleged police conspired to retaliate against her over her claims that she had sex with Donald Trump...

A Jacksonville-based U.S. Coast Guard crew intercepted over 12,000 pounds of cocaine in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, worth over $165 million. While on routine patrol earlier this month, the Coast Guard Cutter Valiant crew interdicted a self-propelled, semi-submersible vessel in international waters that was carrying approximately six tons of cocaine and four suspected drug smugglers, officials said in a statement....

A massive cleanup effort takes place at homeless encampment in Van Nuys. Jane Yamamoto reports for NBC4 News at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 21, 2019.

A 41-year-old Green Beret who was on his fourth combat deployment has been killed by small arms fire in Afghanistan. U.S. Army Special Operations Command spokesman Loren Bymer at North Carolina’s Fort Bragg said in a statement that Sgt. 1st Class Jeremy W. Griffin died Monday. Griffin was from Greenbrier, Tennessee, and was a Special Forces communications sergeant based at...

A person had been killed and burned elsewhere, then placed in the shopping cart found on a bike path. Eric Leonard reports for the NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 13, 2019.

The U.S. Coast Guard said Wednesday it was convening its highest level of investigation into the Labor Day disaster of a commercial dive boat that killed 34 people off the Southern California coast.

Newly released video shows the threatening gesture an armed man allegedly made towards a family in a Del Taco in Lemon Grove before deputies responded and shot him to death.