Erik Ortiz

2 days ago | nbcnews.com | Erik Ortiz |Adam Reiss |Doha Madani

A jury of 12 everyday New Yorkers — eight men and four women — were seated Monday in the federal sex trafficking trial of Sean "Diddy" Combs, paving the way for opening statements in the proceedings expected to last at least eight weeks. The group whittled down from a pool of 45 qualified prospective jurors after questioning began last week.

5 days ago | yahoo.com | Erik Ortiz

The election of an American as pope is being recognized as a historic choice, but Chicago-born missionary Robert Prevost represents another notable departure from pontiffs of the past. Prevost, 69, is the first Augustinian friar to become pope, the Vatican News reported. "The fact that the pope is from the Augustinian order is the most surprising thing for me," Charles Gillespie, an assistant professor of Catholic Studies at Sacred Heart University in Connecticut, said Friday.

5 days ago | nbcnews.com | Shane Bishop |Erik Ortiz |Adam Gorfain |Brittany Morris

By , and Six weeks before a masked intruder slipped inside a rental home on the edge of the University of Idaho campus, fatally stabbed four students and ducked into the darkness, Bryan Kohberger was coming under pressure. During the fall semester of 2022, Kohberger was a 27-year-old doctoral student in criminology at Washington State University, an 8-mile drive west of the University of Idaho.

6 days ago | nbcnews.com | Shane Bishop |Adam Gorfain |Erik Ortiz |Brittany Morris

By , and In the early hours of Nov. 13, 2022, when four University of Idaho students would be stabbed to death in an off-campus house as some of them slept, a neighbor’s home security video captured the same white car circling the block multiple times. The vehicle approached the house again and again before speeding away 13 minutes later. The previously unseen footage obtained by “Dateline” offers another angle into the turbulent events at the time prosecutors believe the students were murdered.

1 week ago | nbcnews.com | Erik Ortiz |Michael Kosnar |Andrew Blankstein

In its heyday, Alcatraz Island housed more than 260 prisoners, with notorious gangsters such as Al Capone, George "Machine Gun" Kelly and James "Whitey" Bulger serving time on the rocky outpost. With Alcatraz's closing in 1963 after it fell into disrepair, the federal prison off San Francisco found a new life as a popular tourist destination — one that continues to draw more than a million visitors a year as a national historic landmark.