JERUSALEM — Israel has received the bodies of four more Israeli hostages, the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office said early Thursday local time. The office said it received the coffins of the hostages from the Red Cross after Hamas turned the bodies over to the group. An initial identification process is now underway in Israel. Hamas...
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — A Maryland judge declared a mistrial Wednesday in the case of a man who is charged with killing three people and injuring three others in a 2023 shooting after a dispute over parking in the state’s capital city. Media outlets reported that Anne Arundel Circuit Judge J. Michael Wachs said the prosecutor...
A new NASA space observatory is scheduled to launch into orbit Thursday on a lofty mission to map more than 450 million galaxies. The SPHEREx mission (short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) will map the entire sky four times over two years, offering scientists a chance...
Welcome to the online version of From the Politics Desk, an evening newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the White House, Capitol Hill and the campaign trail. In today’s edition, we explore how the Donald Trump-Elon Musk dynamic is defining the political state of play at the White...
WASHINGTON — A Justice Department prosecutor struggled in court on Wednesday to articulate the administration’s view of the full intention of President Donald Trump’s mass pardon of Jan. 6 rioters, as the government argued that Trump’s pardon should apply to separate criminal conduct committed by Capitol rioter Dan Wilson in Kentucky in 2023. U.S. District...
WASHINGTON — House and Senate Republicans have voted to approve competing budget measures to pass portions of President Donald Trump’s agenda. And top GOP lawmakers insisted Wednesday they won’t accept the other chamber’s version. Under the arcane process that Republicans are using, both the House and the Senate must approve the same budget resolution before...
It’s juicy. It’s fresh. And just one will cost you $18.99. The Elly Amai strawberry, imported from Kyoto, Japan, has become the latest absurdly priced item sold at the Los Angeles luxury grocery store chain Erewhon, and it has captivated the internet. This week, dozens of people on TikTok and Instagram have posted videos commenting...
Rarely has a single company’s earnings report been so closely watched by Wall Street as a make-or-break moment for the broader market. Nvidia, the chipmaker whose central role in the global AI arms race has turned it into one of the world’s most valuable companies, reported its much-anticipated quarterly results Wednesday. The company is wildly...
VANNES, France — The ex-wife of a former surgeon at the center of France’s largest ever child sexual abuse case told a court Wednesday she knew “nothing” of her husband’s near 30-year history of abusing children, including members of their family, until his arrest in 2017. Marie-France Lhermite, 71, testified as her ex-husband, Joël Le...
The Trump administration said in a court filing Wednesday it cannot comply with a federal judge’s order to release foreign aid funding by midnight, despite being directed to do so almost two weeks ago. Lawyers for the Justice Department made the claim in papers filed to a federal appeals court seeking a stay of the...