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Former Rep. George Santos was released from a New Jersey prison after President Donald Trump announced he had commuted Santos’ sentence. Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited the White House and is holding out hope that the United States will agree to provide long-range Tomahawk missiles that could strike deep inside Russia. NBC’s Yamiche Alcindor reports for Saturday TODAY.



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Oct. 17, 2025, 11:22 PM EDT / Updated Oct. 18, 2025, 4:11 AM EDTBy Rohan Nadkarni and Phil HelselShohei Ohtani hit three home runs Friday as the Los Angeles Dodgers swept the Milwaukee Brewers to advance to the World Series for the second time in two years.The Dodgers won the National League Championship at home Friday with the 5-1 win over Milwaukee. The win clinches the team’s berth to the World Series, but their opponent has not been decided.The Dodgers jumped to an early 3-0 lead in the first inning, with Ohtani hitting a leadoff home run, and never lost it. Ohtani crushed a second homer in the fourth inning, sending the ball 469 feet and over the roof of the park.Ohtani, also pitching, struck out 10 and gave up only two hits until being relieved at the top of the seventh. The home crowd chanted “MVP” at his next at-bat — and Ohtani then struck his third home run of the night.“It was really fun on both sides of the ball today,” Ohtani, who is from Japan, said through an interpreter after the team was crowned league champs. “As a representative, I’m taking this trophy, and let’s get four more wins.”In the American League, the Seattle Mariners and Toronto Blue Jays are battling for the championship and their spot in the World Series. The Mariners lead 3-2 in the best-of-seven series, with a 6-2 win Friday.The Dodgers will be looking for their third World Series title since 2020.The Dodgers finished first in the NL West this season, edging out the San Diego Padres by three games to win the division. Though they finished slightly behind last year’s pace in the regular season, the Dodgers have been dominant in the playoffs. They swept the Cincinnati Reds 2-0 in the wild card round before beating the Philadelphia Phillies 3-1 in the divisional round. While the Dodgers’ highly-priced lineup has been hitting well — they entered Friday second among postseason teams with a .254 average — the pitching staff has especially shined in October.Entering Friday’s Game 4, Los Angeles had the best ERA 2.60 of all remaining playoff teams, as well as the best WHIP (1.02) and opponent batting average (.174).Starting pitcher Blake Snell has been the team’s most effective starter so far. He’s 3-0 in three postseason starts with 28 strikeouts in only 21 innings pitched and a minuscule 0.86 ERA. The Dodgers’ World Series berth continues a run of NL dominance that stretches back to the previous decade.After appearing in zero World Series from 1989 to 2016, the Dodgers has made the Fall Classic five times since 2017. After losing back-to-back years in 2017 and 2018, the Dodgers took home championships in 2020 and 2024.The Dodgers have been willing to spend on its recent success. The Dodgers’ payroll this season is roughly $350.3 million, the most expensive roster in MLB. Ohtani’s teammates, who are no slouches themselves, said they were impressed with Ohtani’s performance Friday.“Oh man, that was special,” Dodgers first baseman and nine-time All Star Freddie Freeman said after the win. “We’ve just been playing really good baseball for a while now, and the inevitable happened today with Shohei — Oh my God, I’m still speechless.”Dodgers pitcher Blake Snell was asked Friday night after the win what impressed him more, Ohtani’s 10 strikeouts or three home runs, and he did not hesitate.“The three home runs,” Snell said. “That was crazy.”Despite the fireworks Friday night, Ohtani said the Dodgers as a team won the championship and are headed to the World Series.”We won it as a team, and this was really a team effort,” he said. “So I hope everybody in L.A. and Japan and all over the world can enjoy a really good sake.”Rohan NadkarniRohan Nadkarni is a sports reporter for NBC News. Phil HelselPhil Helsel is a reporter for NBC News.
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Savewith a NBCUniversal ProfileCreate your free profile or log in to save this articleOct. 18, 2025, 7:35 AM EDTBy Sara Monetta and Daniele HamamdjianPalestinian detainees have spoken of their shock at returning to a Gaza unrecognizable from the one from which they were taken, as some are freed from Israeli detention with stories of brutal treatment.Gaza is now gone, Shadi Abu Sido, 35, shouted to the cameras as he emerged from a bus in the southern city of Khan Younis on Monday. “It’s like a scene from ‘Judgment Day,’” he said of the destruction.Later, he was reunited with his wife and children, who he said his captors had falsely told him had died.Shadi Abu Sido, 35, and his children.Abu Sido is among 1,718 Palestinian detainees released in exchange for Israeli hostages, in addition to 250 security prisoners convicted of serious crimes including murder. The detainees, taken captive since the Hamas terror attacks on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, had faced no charges. All 20 surviving Israeli hostages held in Gaza were released under the exchange.Abu Sido, a cameraman for a Lebanon-based TV station who was arrested in March 2024 while filming at Al-Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza, told NBC News over the phone that he was stripped naked, handcuffed and had his rib broken when he was first arrested 19 months ago. In prison, he says he was left handcuffed and blindfolded for weeks.Israeli soldiers stand by a truck packed with bound and blindfolded Palestinian detainees in Gaza in December 2023.Moti Milrod / AP file”No food, no bathroom, no talking, no lifting your head,” he said. Those who disobeyed were ” hung on the wall and beaten,” he added.Abu Sido said soldiers picked on him because of his job, with one interrogator hitting him repeatedly in his eye so that he would lose his ability to operate a camera. He said he now needs specialist treatment that he worries won’t be available in Gaza.Moureen Kaki, a Palestinian American aid worker from the medical nongovernmental organization Glia, was at Nasser Hospital on Monday as the released detainees arrived for health checks, most appearing gaunt, limping and shrunken.“Everybody was affected by scabies,” she said in a video call on Tuesday evening. “It wasn’t just one person that shared the same story of torture, of being withheld food, of being forced to drink toilet water since the announcement of the ceasefire. It was every single person that we talked to that had the same stories. It was truly horrifying.”She said that three people who had been imprisoned for months arrived at the hospital with fresh gunshot wounds that appeared to have “happened within the span of the last three weeks.”Palestinian inmates after being released from the Ofer military prison near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on Monday.Hazem Bader / AFP – Getty ImagesIsrael also returned the bodies of 120 detainees. On Thursday, the Ministry of Health in Gaza posted photos of what it said were bodies returned showing signs of torture and with various toes and fingers missing.The Israel Defense Forces did not respond to NBC News’ request for comment over the allegations of torture and abuse. In a separate case in February, five Israeli reservists were charged over the beating and stabbing of a detainee, accused in an indictment of breaking the man’s ribs, puncturing his lung and tearing his rectum.Dozens of detainees released on Monday were health care workers. Among them was Dr. Ahmed Muhanna, the director of Al-Awda Hospital, detained during a December 2023 raid when he ignored IDF warnings to leave, choosing instead to stay with his patients.Dr. Ahmed Muhanna, director of Al-Awda Hospital, was welcomed by his colleagues and medical staff after being released as part of a prisoner-hostage exchange in Gaza City on Monday.Hassan Jedi / Anadolu via Getty ImagesMuhanna, after nearly two years in detention, addressed a crowd that gathered to welcome him back to the hospital.“They directly targeted medical staff,” he said. “But we will never leave our hospitals.”The Israeli military has previously defended strikes at hospitals, repeatedly saying medical facilities in Gaza were being used as operating bases for Hamas.According to the monitoring group Healthcare Workers Watch, there are at least 115 health care workers from Gaza among the thousands of Palestinians still in Israeli detention.Hussam Abu Safiya, center, treating a patient who was injured in an Israeli strike on Beit Lahia on Nov. 21.AFP via Getty Images fileThey include a prominent pediatrician and director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, who, according to his family, had been approved for release. On Thursday, an Israeli court extended Abu Safiya’s detention by another six months.Sara MonettaSara Monetta is a multimedia producer based in London.Daniele HamamdjianDaniele Hamamdjian is an NBC foreign correspondent based in London.
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Sept. 25, 2025, 7:43 PM EDT / Updated Sept. 25, 2025, 8:18 PM EDTBy Tim Stelloh and Joe KottkeAuthorities confirmed that remains found in a remote part of Washington state were those of Travis Decker, the U.S. Army veteran accused in the horrific murder of his three young daughters and the subject of a monthslong manhunt. Chelan County Sheriff Mike Morrison said Thursday that officials received DNA results from Washington State Patrol’s crime lab confirming the identity of the remains. Clothing recovered from the scene also belonged to Decker, he said.Travis Caleb Decker.U.S. Marshals ServiceMorrison apologized to the girls’ mother, Whitney Decker, for how long it took to track down Decker.”But I hope that you can rest easier at night knowing that Travis is accounted for,” Morrison said. “He is deceased. Our DNA results confirm that, and this will bring a close to our case.”He said officials are still awaiting a possible cause and time of death from the coroner.A psychologist pointed authorities to a 7,500-foot mountain east of Leavenworth, Washington, Morrison said, “and her insights and guidance led us to an important area to search where we did eventually locate Mr. Decker. Again, we couldn’t have done this by ourselves.”The announcement came after the Chelan County Sheriff’s Office said last week that the remains were found in a wooded area south of Leavenworth, nearly 120 miles east of Seattle. That area wasn’t far from the remote campsite where the bodies of Decker’s daughters — Evelyn, 8; Paityn, 9; and Olivia Decker, 5 — were found with bags over their heads on June 2.The girls had been zip-tied, according to an affidavit in support of an arrest warrant, and Decker’s abandoned pickup was found near the campsite with two bloody handprints on the tailgate.The county medical examiner said the girls died by suffocation. Decker, 32, was accused of murder and kidnapping in their deaths. He was also wanted on one federal charge — unlawful flight to avoid prosecution.Authorities have not identified a potential motive. In the affidavit, a detective noted that Decker — who was divorced from his daughters’ mother — refused to sign a parenting plan that required him to seek mental health treatment and domestic violence anger management.The girls had been with Decker for a May 30 visitation when he failed to return them, setting off an intensive search that covered hundreds of square miles across a rugged swath of the state. There were dozens and dozens of potential sightings in the weeks that followed, authorities said, including one that led investigators as far away as Idaho’s Sawtooth National Forest. That sighting turned out to be false.Decker, who was described by authorities as an outdoorsman who would go “off-grid” for months, appears to have been seen only once, in an area south of Leavenworth, when tracking teams spotted an off-trail hiker who ran from their helicopter.Tim StellohTim Stelloh is a breaking news reporter for NBC News Digital.Joe KottkeJoe Kottke is an assignment editor at NBC News covering domestic news, including politics, crime, natural disasters, immigration and LGBTQ issues.
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