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At a roundtable meetings about reopening schools, President Donald Trump praised the U.S. response to the coronavirus in limiting the number of Americans who have died, saying, “We saved of thousands of lives, hundreds of thousands of lives… we’re at [130,000 deaths] and we could be at way over a million right now and I think it could have been...

Sweden on Wednesday dropped its investigation into the unsolved murder of former Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, who was shot dead 34 years ago in downtown Stockholm.

Sweden’s chief epidemiologist showed contrition Wednesday as criticism mounted over the Scandinavian country’s hotly debated method of fighting the coronavirus, which has resulted in one of the highest death rates per capita in the world. Sweden has stood out among European nations and the world for the way it has handled the pandemic, not shutting down the country or...

A woman is unable to get home to South Florida after she traveled to Sweden for a funeral. NBC 6’s Alyssa Hyman reports.

A Swedish organization that gave Greta Thunberg an award that is often described as an alternative Nobel Prize says the teenage climate activist is using her prize money to establish her own foundation.

Global warming is threatening reindeer herding in Sweden’s arctic region as unusual weather patterns jeopardize the migrating animals’ grazing grounds. Rainfall during the winter has led to thick layers of ice that block access to food. Already pressured by the mining and forestry industry, and other development that encroaches on grazing land, Sami herding communities fear climate change could mean...

Sweden’s prison board says U.S. rapper A$AP Rocky won’t be able to perform in the Swedish prison where he was held until convicted of assault in a June street brawl in Stockholm. Citing logistical and security issues, Vilhelm Grevik of Sweden’s Prison and Probation Service told the Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet on Wednesday, that the prison board won’t be...

Left with nowhere else to go after their shelters were deemed uninhabitable, more than a hundred animals have been taken out of Puerto Rico and relocated in the continental U.S., including in Broward County where they can be adopted on MLK Day. NBC 6’s Arlene Borenstein reports from Dania Beach.

A white supremacist who shot and stabbed a pro-European U.K. lawmaker while shouting “Britain first” was convicted of murder by a jury on Wednesday. A judge said Thomas Mair would serve life without parole for killing Jo Cox. The 41-year-old Labour member of Parliament was attacked in June outside a library as she prepared to meet residents of the area...

NBC 6’s Marissa Bagg speaks to a Swedish reporter about the impact of the arrest of Bo Hansson, a retired sportscaster who faces accusations of groping a teen at a park in Coral Springs.