Latinos make up very few full-time university professors; now some say the attacks on diversity by Republicans pose greater challenges to growing their ranks.

Serbian troops on the border with Kosovo were put on high alert Friday following clashes inside Kosovo between police and ethnic Serbs that injured more than a dozen people.

A judge put South Carolina’s new law banning most abortions around six weeks of pregnancy on hold Friday until the state Supreme Court can review the measure, giving providers a temporary reprieve in a region that has enacted strict limits on the procedure.

Hundreds of frantic calls poured in to dispatchers about a barrage of gunfire and bloodied victims along a busy street during this month’s deadly shooting in Farmington, prompting authorities to rush to the chaotic scene not knowing what was in store.

Two inmates who escaped from an Ohio prison this week did so by concealing themselves in a dumpster, the state department of corrections said Friday as a search for one of the men continued.

A man on a flight over South Korea allegedly ripped open the plane’s emergency door minutes before landing. Flight officials say the plane was carrying 194 passengers about 700 feet above ground. The man has been detained by police. NBC News’ Steve Patterson has the latest.

Roughly 2.5 million people are headed through airports today as airlines face a record surge of post-pandemic travelers this Memorial Day weekend. NBC News’ Tom Costello has more details.

The super villain Ursula in Disney’s Little Mermaid was inspired by drag queen Divine from John Waters’ Pink Flamingos.

The United States has a few more days to raise the debt ceiling, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in a letter Friday afternoon, setting the deadline to June 5.

The Russian mercenary outfit Wagner Group is sending surface-to-air missiles to one side in Sudan’s war, fueling the conflict, part of a growing presence in Africa.