Students in Africa and South America have been denied visas to study in the U.S. at disproportionately higher rates than students from elsewhere in the world, according to a report published Wednesday.

As Taylor Swift looks to make her tour stops in California, starting this weekend in the Bay Area, state Attorney General Rob Bonta warns concert-goers to “speak now” if they suspect they’ve fallen victim to ticket scamming.

For the third time in a week, a product at Trader Joe’s is being recalled, this time it’s the Fully Cooked Falafel because it “may contain rocks.”

A Texas man has lost his hands and parts of his feet after contracting a severe case of typhus from a flea bite. The infectious disease is caused by bacteria.

An explosion rocked the center of the Russian city of Taganrog near the border with Ukraine on Friday, injuring several people, the Kremlin said.

Almost 150 million people across the United States woke up under a heat alert Friday ahead of what is expected to be another dangerously hot day across the country.

Ford is recalling more than 870,000 newer F-150 pickup trucks in the U.S. because the electric parking brakes can turn on unexpectedly.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is seeking to tamp down speculation about his future and make clear that he’ll stay on the job after an incident earlier this week.

Facebook users have less than one month left to apply for their share of a $725 million settlement over the social network’s privacy violations, part of the lengthy fallout from the Cambridge Analytica scandal that rocked the U.S. electoral process and Silicon Valley.

There may be unclaimed money with your name on it — but how do you find out? NBC’s Vicky Nguyen joins TODAY to explain how to find it and offers tips like checking your state comptroller or treasury office and running an online search in a database.