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Melissa Chan

Melissa Chan is a reporter for NBC News Digital with a focus on veterans’ issues, mental health in the military and gun violence.

Melissa Chan is a reporter for NBC News Digital with a focus on veterans’ issues, mental health in the military and gun violence.


Latest from Melissa Chan

Jewish and pro-Palestinian students at Columbia University accuse school officials of discrimination in competing complaints

Students at Columbia University have filed dueling discrimination complaints as confrontations between pro-Palestinian protesters and counterprotesters continue.

How the Columbia protests sparked campus demonstrations across the country

The decision by Columbia University’s president to call in the New York Police Department to clear pro-Palestinian protesters from the campus last week appears to have sparked the spate of increasingly strident demonstrations.

Columbia University protesters resume demonstrations after mass arrests

Pro-Palestinian student protesters resumed a third day of demonstrations Friday at Columbia University, saying their resolve has strengthened despite mass suspensions and arrests.

108 arrested at pro-Palestinian protest at Columbia University

Over 100 people were arrested and issued summonses for trespass — including Rep.
19d ago

'Give them a verbal hug': Emails show how the Navy scrambled to manage a spate of suicides

As the USS George Washington reeled from a spate of suicides two years ago, Navy leaders reacted with anger and denial while discussing news coverage of the deaths and whether to promote the sailors posthumously, according to emails obtained by NBC News.

Arizona's 1864 abortion ban was mostly a result of power struggles, historians say

Attempts to gain power partially fueled Arizona’s abortion ban in 1864. Male physicians sought to dominate health care, and xenophobic fears about immigrants emerged, historians said.

Tennessee court weighs challenge to abortion ban’s narrow medical exception

A Tennessee court will weigh whether to temporarily block the state’s abortion ban when it comes to dangerous pregnancies, after hearing arguments Thursday in a legal challenge to the law’s narrow medical exception.
38d ago

Six presumed dead after cargo ship crash levels Baltimore bridge

The Francis Scott Key bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, partially collapsed early Tuesday, police said. It was hit by a ship, officials said.
39d ago

Co-workers worry about missing colleagues in bridge collapse

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore said an unknown number of workers were doing repairs on the Baltimore bridge when it was hit. At least six people are missing, authorities said.
49d ago

A Navy SEAL was convinced exposure to blasts damaged his brain, so he donated it to science to prove it

Before he ended his life, Ryan Larkin made his family promise to donate his brain to science.
58d ago

Army reservists deflect blame when questioned about Lewiston, Maine, shooting that left 18 dead

U.S. Army reservists who worked with Maine gunman Robert Card deflected blame Thursday during independent commission hearing investigating the state’s worst mass shooting.