The U.S. pandemic emergency has ended and travel restrictions are gone, but inflation is still crimping most vacationers’ plans — except for the rich.

Shelling and airstrikes pounded parts of Sudan’s capital on Sunday with little sign that warring military factions were ready to back down in a conflict that has killed hundreds despite cease-fire talks in Saudi Arabia.

Bangladesh and Myanmar braced Sunday as a severe cyclone started to hit coastal areas and authorities urged thousands of people in both countries to seek shelter.

Multiple migrants in El Paso said that a whisper network in Juárez, Mexico, led them to believe that their best chance to come to the U.S. was about to expire.

ISTANBUL — It’s been three months since Mehmet Demir’s home was reduced to rubble by two massive earthquakes that devastated huge swaths of Turkey, leaving tens of thousands of people dead, and almost 3 million displaced.

A traffic stop Friday night in Lanham, Maryland, led to the rescue of a kidnapping victim, police said.

President Joe Biden on Saturday told graduates of a leading historically Black university that in U.S. history, “racism has long torn us apart.”

TEL AVIV — Israel and Palestinian Islamic Jihad have agreed to a cease-fire ending five days of fighting between the two sides, one U.S. official and one Israeli official told NBC News on Saturday.

One of Barry Walker’s victims, now 22, blamed those close to Walker for not stopping him before he sexually abused more than 30 girls. “They failed us,” she told NBC News.

North Carolina’s Democratic governor has vetoed legislation that would have banned nearly all abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy.