New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced Monday that the city will close the Asylum Seeker Arrival Center at the Roosevelt Hotel, a site that was the frequent target of criticism from Elon Musk and the Tump administration. Over 173,000 migrants completed registrations at the Manhattan hotel since its opening in May 2023, accounting for...
Lester Holt, the anchor and managing editor of “NBC Nightly News” for a decade, announced Monday that he is stepping down from the long-running broadcast at the beginning of the summer. Holt will continue to be a fixture at the network with a full-time role at “Dateline,” where he has been the principal anchor for...
Grammy award-winning singer Roberta Flack, who crooned hits like “Killing Me Softly with His Song” and “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,” has died, a representative confirmed to NBC News. She was 88. In November 2022, a representative announced that Flack had ALS, commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, and could no longer...
The Securities and Exchange Commission is dropping its investigation into Robinhood’s crypto arm, the company revealed Monday. Robinhood said it received a letter from the SEC’s enforcement division on Friday, detailing in a blog post that the agency has closed its investigation into the crypto business with no intention of moving forward with an enforcement action. The news...
Starbucks will lay off 1,100 corporate employees and will not fill several hundred other open positions, the coffee chain’s CEO Brian Niccol said Monday. The cuts will not affect workers at the company’s cafes. In a message to corporate employees, Niccol said Starbucks is “simplifying our structure, removing layers and duplication and creating smaller, more nimble teams.”...
An American woman was being held in police custody in Paris on Monday following the death of a newborn baby, who was thrown from the window of a hotel in the 20th arrondissement, authorities said. In a statement shared with NBC News, the Paris prosecutor’s office said the newborn was believed to have been thrown...
A range of milkshakes have been recalled after they were linked to 11 deaths and dozens of serious illnesses, many of them in long-term care homes and hospitals, the FDA confirmed on Friday. Food service company Lyons Magnus said in a statement Saturday it was voluntarily recalling all 4 oz. packs of Lyons ReadyCare and...
Apple on Monday reaffirmed a commitment to invest hundreds of billions of dollars in the U.S. over the coming years amid pressure from President Donald Trump and the growing threat of his tariffs The tech giant said it planned to spend $500 billion over the next five years in the United States, with intentions to...
Pope Francis was conscious, eating and in “good spirit,”a Vatican source said Monday, as worries persisted around the pontiff’s kidney and lung problems that have left him in the hospital for over a week. Francis was eating normally, the source told NBC News’ international partner, Sky News. Though Rome’s Gemelli Hospital said via Telegram on...
President Trump and Elon Musk float the idea of giving taxpayers checks with savings from government cuts. Germany’s far-right party comes second in a bruising election. And France readies for a historic child abuse trial. Here’s what to know today. Trump and Elon Musk are floating ‘DOGE dividends.’ Low-income Americans might not get the benefits....