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More than 11,000 scientists issue fresh warning: Earth faces a climate emergency

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Senators want to know how many ISIS prisoners have now escaped from Kurdish captivity

"Many are hard-core terrorists, with the kinds of expertise," including bomb-making, "that had made ISIS such a threat to the U.S. and our allies."

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Read the transcript: Testimony of Gordon Sondland, U.S. ambassador to the European Union

Sondland told Congress that Trump directed Rudy Giuliani to push Ukraine to investigate the president's political rivals.

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Read the transcript: Testimony of Kurt Volker, former U.S. envoy to Ukraine

Volker resigned his post after his name appeared in a whistleblower complaint about President Donald Trump's dealings with the Ukraine,

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Greece rescues tourist floating in Aegean Sea for two days

The woman, vacationing on a sailboat near the Greek island of Folegandros, boarded an inflatable boat around midday on Friday to get supplies.

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Facebook's Zuckerberg holds line on political ads, but microtargeting could change

Banning microtargeting has the support of Ellen Weintraub, chairwoman of the FEC, which regulates how money is raised and spent in elections.

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Family recounts harrowing stories of young survivors of Mexican highway ambush

Thirteen-year-old Devin Langford had to walk for about 14 miles to La Mora, where the family lived, to look for help.

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Israel's top court allows expulsion of senior U.S. rights activist

Omar Shakir was given 20 days to leave the country and ordered to pay the legal fees associated with the case.

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American among 3 drug prisoners in escape from Thai court

CCTV footage showed one stabbing a guard and another forcing a guard at gunpoint to hand over keys to unlock a secured area so the three could escape in a nearby pickup truck.

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Turkey says it has captured the sister of dead ISIS leader

"Our determination to bring justice to those who seek to terrorize our people and destabilize our region cannot be questioned," a presidential spokesman said.

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Here's how to watch tonight's elections in Kentucky, Mississippi and Virginia

First Read is your briefing from "Meet the Press" and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter.

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Santiago protests take toll on Chile economy

Protesters clashed with police on the streets of Santiago yet again on Monday (November 4), with tensions initially sparked by an increase in the price of metro fares continuing to remain high

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Chinese yuan surges amid hopes for a Washington-Beijing trade breakthrough

Chinese officials said President Xi Jinping and President Donald Trump had been in continuous touch.

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Biden brings up Charlottesville on the campaign trail, but has been a stranger to the city

Residents still reeling from a white supremacist rally wonder where the former VP has been.

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More governments than ever are using social media to push propaganda, report says

"Many governments are finding that on social media, propaganda works better than censorship," Mike Abramowitz, president of Freedom House, said in a statement.

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Mexico deploys forces on reports of deadly ambush of Americans

Mexican authorities said military and police were responding to reports that at least five Americans were shot and killed in the state of Sonora.

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Steyer staffer resigns after downloading Harris info in data breach

The South Carolina party says the former Steyer staffer used access he had while working for the party to get access to the data.

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'You can't let that happen to me!" Trump begs Kentucky fans to block defeat of GOP gov.

The president hit the campaign trail ahead of key races on Tuesday in which he's invested his political clout.

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Trump admin targets soon-to-be-published insider book by 'Anonymous'

'A Warning' — expected to be highly critical of the president — is set to hit bookshelves later this month.

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Trump administration weighs restricting asylum seekers from working

The new proposal, which has not yet been finalized, would keep asylum seekers from applying for work permits until they had been in the country for at least a year, the officials said.

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Columnist E. Jean Carroll, who accused Trump of sexual assault, sues him for defamation

Carroll says Trump's denials and counter-attacks against her following her allegations "damaged her reputation" and "caused substantial professional harm."