Lester Holt sat down with 12 family members of hostages that are being held in Gaza. Liz Hirsh Naftali’s relative, a three-year-old girl, was taken after her parents were killed in Hamas’ attack.

The New Orleans Coast Guard is searching a 200-mile area for a man who went missing Monday from a Louisiana cruise ship bound for Montego Bay, Jamaica.

Prices for consumers are growing at a slower pace, the U.S. government reported, as overall prices in October were the same as what consumers paid in September.

A shutdown could happen Saturday if a new funding bill isn’t passed and signed. Here’s how a shutdown would affect Social Security and other programs.

New inflation numbers expected Tuesday could determine whether Americans will face even more interest rate hikes and will provide insight on prices ahead of the holidays. NBC’s Tom Costello reports for TODAY.

Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza has “turned into a real cemetery for the sick and wounded,” its director says, as fighting rages in the vicinity.

Dropping a nuclear bomb on the Gaza Strip and establishing “sterile zones” that would block Palestinians from entering.

Jesús Ociel Baena, the first openly nonbinary person to assume a judicial position in Mexico, was found dead in their home in Aguascalientes after receiving death threats because of their gender identity, authorities said.

Efforts by health workers to evacuate some of Gaza’s biggest hospitals appear to be failing despite promises from Israeli forces to allow those wounded and sick to go south.

Police in North Texas have arrested five people in connection to a string of burglaries that appear to have targeted the Asian American community earlier this month.