Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, a hardliner long seen as a potential successor to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed in a helicopter crash in mountainous terrain near the Azerbaijan border, state media said on Monday. NBC News' Claudio Lavanga has the latest on Early Today.

A child was among the three victims killed when a passenger train hit a pickup truck, officials said.

Closing arguments are scheduled for Monday in the trial of a former University of Arizona graduate student accused of killing a professor on campus.

President Ebrahim Raisi, 63, has died after the helicopter he was on crashed, Iranian state media has confirmed. It took rescuers several hours to reach the crash site amid bad weather and heavy fog. 

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, known for enforcing brutal crackdowns on political opposition and seen as a potential successor to the supreme leader, has died in a helicopter crash landing in the country’s north, state media reported Monday.

An Arizona man has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the death of his wife, who was buried alive in a hand-dug grave near their home, authorities said.