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A New Jersey hospital mistakenly gave a kidney transplant to the wrong patient who happens to have the same name as the intended recipient.

Melanie Whelan is resigning from her position as chief executive officer of SoulCycle, effective Tuesday, the company told CNBC Make It. Both sides felt it was time for a leadership transition, according to a person briefed on the decision who asked not to be named because those discussions were private. A spokesperson for SoulCycle declined to comment on the impetus...

A widow is suing Maryland state officials after receiving the wrong remains for her husband who had donated his body to science.

In September, Amer Fakhoury closed his New Hampshire restaurant to take his first vacation in years to visit family in his native Lebanon — a country he hadn’t been to for nearly two decades. He hasn’t returned to the United States. Soon after his arrival in Lebanon, the 57-year-old American citizen was detained by authorities and remains jailed there. Doctors...

Senior Trump administration official Mina Chang resigned from her job at the State Department two and a half hours after NBC News went to her spokesperson to ask about newly discovered false claims she had made about her charity work. NBC News had previously reported that Chang, the deputy assistant secretary in the State Department’s Bureau of Conflict and Stability...

The incident took place Sunday afternoon at the Venice Municipal Airport on a Piper PA-32 Cherokee 6 airplane

A homeowner says a contractor they connected with on a popular website took their money and never came back. She called NBC 6 Responds.

A woman told NBC 6 Responds she paid a lot more than usual for a scooter ride home from work.

Miracle, the dog that was discovered after having spent more than three weeks trapped under destroyed air conditioning units in Marsh Harbour, the Bahamas, will meet his new adoptive family next weekend.

All 39 people found dead in a refrigerated container truck in England last week were Vietnamese nationals, British police said, as three more people were arrested in Ireland and Vietnam in the sprawling international investigation into what appears to be a people-smuggling tragedy. British detectives initially said the victims discovered near the southeast port of Purfleet on Oct. 23 were...

Here comes the… controversy. Australian Kmart — which has no relation to U.S. Kmart — yanked a child bride Halloween costume after more than 500 people signed an online petition claiming that it normalizes sex trafficking. “A child bride costume currently exists on Kmart shelves in children’s sizes. Tell Kmart this is beyond inappropriate and offensive and that they have...

The number of young Americans watching online videos every day has more than doubled, according to survey findings released Tuesday. They’re glued to them for nearly an hour a day, twice as long as they were four years ago. And often, the survey found, they’re seeing the videos on services such as YouTube that are supposedly off limits to children...

Former NBC News employees who signed nondisclosure agreements with the network and believe they experienced sexual harassment are free to tell their stories, NBCUniversal said in a new statement Friday. The statement was first reported by MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow minutes before an interview with Ronan Farrow, the investigative journalist who chronicles his reporting on sexual misconduct allegations against former film...

A woman is fighting back after receiving a huge bill for water she says she didn’t use.

Woman hit with a water bill for more than $2,300, but she says someone else used her water and drove up the bill.

Helen Hunt was involved in a car accident on Wednesday. A spokesperson for the Los Angeles Police Department told People the incident occurred in Los Angeles’ Mid-City area on the corner of San Vicente and Tremaine Avenue.

Here are some of the past week’s top stories from the NBC 6 Weekend Digest:

A “youth host” on a Disney Cruise ship accused of molesting a young boy during a cruise earlier this year is set to go to trial in Miami-Dade later this month, and prosecutors are looking for more alleged victims.

The organization that hosts the Emmy Awards show responded Thursday to Mindy Kaling’s claims that early on in her career, it attempted to remove her producer credit from “The Office.” She was the only female producer of color on the show at the time. In an interview with Elle published Wednesday, Kaling claimed that the Television Academy approached her after...