A California man was detained by the FBI and ordered to have his guns temporarily seized after he allegedly communicated with the 15-year-old shooter who killed two people at her Wisconsin school, documents show. The gun violence emergency protective order was served to a 20-year-old in Carlsbad in San Diego County on Tuesday, according to...
The Summary U.S. life expectancy jumped to 78.4 years last year, the highest it has been since 2019, before the pandemic. A decline in Covid deaths was a primary factor in the upward trend. Covid fell from the fourth-leading cause of death in 2022 to the 10th in 2023. Drug overdose deaths also decreased last...
Federal prosecutors are looking into whether to charge Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the killing of United Healthcare’s CEO, two sources familiar with the matter told NBC News on Wednesday. If federal charges are filed, the New York state murder case against Mangione would have priority, the sources said. Mangione, 26, was indicted Tuesday on...
Tech billionaire Elon Musk is already flexing his newfound political muscle even before his ally President-elect Donald Trump has taken the oath of office. Musk helped lead a revolt Wednesday to try to stop a bipartisan funding bill in a direct challenge to the authority of House Speaker Mike Johnson and others in Republican leadership...
So-called “murder hornets” have been eradicated from the U.S., officials announced Wednesday, five years after the invasive species was first identified in Washington state. The northern giant hornet has not been detected in three years, prompting officials to announce its eradication from the U.S., the Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) and the United States Department of...
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 examine how President-elect Donald Trump is filling his future administration with candidates who lost recent high-profile elections....
There may not be a lot of homes for sale these days, but there is a lot of housing space sitting empty. In fact, the most in recorded history. The number of extra bedrooms, which is defined as a bedroom in excess of the number of people in the home, and even including one for...
The Federal Reserve announced a quarter-point cut to its key interest rate Wednesday, an effort to keep stable what appears to be a steady but cooling economy. It’s the central bank’s third rate cut of 2024. The move reduces the Fed’s target rate to between 4.25% and 4.5%. In its statement announcing the cut, the...
The incoming Trump administration is already making plans to harness the power of Immigration and Customs Enforcement to vastly increase the number of undocumented immigrants deported from the United States. But it faces an obstacle: ICE is already dealing with a $230 million budget shortfall, even before the costs that will be associated with mass...
The House Ethics Committee has voted to publicly release a report detailing the findings of an investigation into former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., two sources familiar with the matter told NBC News. Gaetz resigned from the House last month after President-elect Donald Trump said he intended to nominate Gaetz to be the next U.S. Attorney...