Sportscaster Greg Gumbel dies at age 78 Greg Gumbel, a longtime CBS sportscaster, has died from cancer, according to a statement from family released by CBS on Friday. He was 78. Read more on NPR

Costco egg recall for salmonella receives FDA’s most severe designation The FDA has classified its recall of eggs sold under Costco’s Kirkland brand as a Class I recall, a designation reserved for instances of the highest potential health risk — including death. Read more on NPR

Syria’s U.S.-backed Kurdish coalition faces an uncertain future after Assad’s ouster After Bashar al-Assad’s ouster, there are questions about the fate of the Syrian Democratic Forces, the U.S.-backed Kurdish coalition that currently controls a third of Syrian territory. Read more on NPR

At least 9 people died when a bridge collapsed in Brazil Another eight people remain unaccounted for. Several cars and trucks plunged into the Tocantins River after a section of the 1,748-foot-long bridge crumbled on Sunday. Read more on NPR

Claim of dementia could derail former Abercrombie CEO’s sex trafficking case Can his legal team’s claims that he has late-onset Alzheimer’s disease and dementia put a pause in the sex trafficking trial of former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries? Read more on NPR

Delta apologizes – again – after another stowaway boards a flight without ticket The incident marks the second time in less than a month that an unticketed passenger was discovered on a Delta Air Lines flight, this time en route to Hawaii. Read more on NPR

Photos from Azerbaijan jet crash suggest a missile strike, according to experts The Embraer 190 with 67 passengers and crew was flying from the Azerbaijani capital of Baku to Grozny in Chechnya, Russia, when it crashed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, killing 38 people. Read more on NPR

New leaders in Damascus call for cordial Syria ties with a resistant Israel “Our problem is not with Israel. We don’t want to meddle in anything that will threaten Israel’s security,” Damascus Governor Maher Marwan tells NPR. Syria and Israel have never had diplomatic ties. Read more on NPR

Rescue team ends search for a man overboard from Norwegian Cruise Line ship The tragedy marks the 19th overboard incident on a cruise ship this year, with only two passengers successfully rescued. Read more on NPR

Global stories from 2024 that we loved … but that you may have missed These stories didn’t get huge numbers of views, but readers who found them stayed with them for what qualifies as an eternity on the online clock. Here are our underappreciated favorites. Read more on NPR