China said it will not attend a Swiss peace conference on Ukraine because it does not meet its expectations, which include both Russia and Ukraine taking part.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin locked horns with his Chinese counterpart on Taiwan on Friday in their first face-to-face meeting in two years.

Two exhausted and distressed climbers remain stranded near the summit of Denali, North America's highest mountain, as bad weather stops rescuers from reaching them, the National Parks Service has said.

Watch live NBC News coverage as former President Donald Trump was found guilty on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in connection with a hush money payment to adult film actor Stormy Daniels near the end of the 2016 presidential campaign.

Former President Donald Trump and his allies immediately tried to flip the script after a New York jury found him guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records Thursday.

A California judge will consider Friday whether to recall the death sentence against Richard Allen Davis, who in 1993 killed 12-year-old Polly Klaas after kidnapping her from her bedroom at knifepoint in a crime that shocked the nation.