General Motors said Wednesday it idled a manufacturing plant in Kansas, and laid off almost all of the approximately 2,000 people working there.

President Joe Biden’s aides have asked that Rahm Emanuel, the U.S. ambassador to Japan, stop posting messages on social media taunting Chinese President Xi Jinping, according to three administration officials.

Kraft Heinz cheese slice recall, Kraft Singles manufacturing problem.

On this episode of Consumer Confidential, NBC’s Vicky Nguyen has the latest consumer news – from warnings about knock-off weight loss drugs to what you should consider before buying pet insurance.

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Buddy Teevens, the innovative Ivy League football coach who brought robotic tackling dummies to Dartmouth practices, died Tuesday of injuries he sustained from a bicycle accident in March.

A woman delivering packages for Amazon was seriously injured when a rattlesnake bit her at a residence in Palm City, Florida, authorities said.

A man facing allegations of sex with a minor faked his kayaking death in Louisiana last month and led authorities on a traffic pursuit in Georgia before he crashed and was arrested over the weekend, authorities said.

A Texas prisoner accused of killing 22 older women over two years was slain Tuesday by his cellmate while serving a life sentence, prison officials said.

An unlicensed acupuncturist has been criminally charged after a 63-year-old woman’s lungs collapsed as she walked home after receiving treatment from him at his Flushing office, officials said.