Priscilla Thompson

3 weeks ago | nbcnews.com | Priscilla Thompson |Rohan Nadkarni

May 16, 2025, 3:09 PM EDTARLINGTON, Texas — Dallas Wings point guard Paige Bueckers will make her WNBA debut Friday night, only 40 days removed from leading the Connecticut Huskies to their first national championship in nine years. And when Bueckers, the No. 1 overall pick in April’s draft, takes the court against the Minnesota Lynx, she will be fulfilling a lifelong dream. “A dream, really,” Bueckers told NBC News about what it feels like to be at the precipice of her first professional game.

1 month ago | nbcnews.com | Priscilla Thompson |Denise Chow

Updated Katy Perry and five other celebrities are set to launch to space today on a short flight aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket and capsule. Joining Perry as part of the all-female crew is Gayle King, co-host of “CBS Mornings”; Lauren Sánchez, a former journalist who is Jeff Bezos’ fiancée; Aisha Bowe, a former NASA rocket scientist; Amanda Nguyen, a bioastronautics research scientist; and Kerianne Flynn, a movie producer.

2 months ago | nbcnews.com | Kayla McCormick |Priscilla Thompson

By and About 90 minutes from Dallas, in a north Texas farming community home to more cows than people, sits an ashram where two Jain monks and documentary filmmakers, Sadhvi Siddhali Shree, 41, and Sadhvi Anubhuti, 42, are on a spiritual journey of a whole other kind. A few years ago, at 38, Shree, a former Iraqi War veteran,  started feeling “off.” She wasn’t sleeping and had trouble concentrating. After experiencing a moment of rage, she knew something was wrong.

Sep 28, 2024 | news.yahoo.com | Daniella Silva |Minyvonne Burke |Priscilla Thompson

'It looks like Hell': Hurricane Helene leaves Georgia community in ruins as families brace for long power outages'It looks like Hell': Hurricane Helene leaves Georgia community in ruins as families brace for long power outagesVALDOSTA, Ga. — Fear lingers in this hard-hit city, where trees toppled onto houses and several downtown buildings were destroyed. Anxious families worry their community could be without power for weeks in the wake of Hurricane Helene.

Jul 9, 2024 | yahoo.com | Mirna Alsharif |Priscilla Thompson

Mirna Alsharif and Priscilla ThompsonJuly 9, 2024 at 3:14 PM·3 min read"Dangerous heat" is set to impact southeast Texas on Tuesday after Beryl has left over 2 million utility customers in the region without power, according to the National Weather Service. A large chunk of the Texas coast, where Beryl made landfall Monday morning as a Category 1 hurricane, was under heat advisories Tuesday, including cities like Houston and Corpus Christi.