Linda McMahon will appear before a Senate committee for her confirmation hearing to be education secretary Thursday as President Donald Trump publicly floats dismantling the department she’s seeking to lead. McMahon, 76, previously was the chief executive of World Wrestling Entertainment, the company founded by her husband, Vince McMahon, a Trump ally. She was also...
WASHINGTON — Presidents love to bask in the patriotic glow of bringing hostages home — none more than Donald Trump. Negotiations over prisoner swaps can be tough and the prices can be high, and experts warn that quickly giving hostage-takers the concessions they want gives them incentives for further kidnappings. But the immediate rewards are...
SYDNEY — Two nurses in a Sydney hospital have been suspended from work for threatening to kill Jewish patients and refusing to treat them in a video on TikTok, triggering an investigation by police, authorities said Wednesday. The video was shared by a TikTok user named Max Veifer, who says he is from Israel, and shows him talking...
TAIPEI, Taiwan — A suspected gas explosion at a department store in the central Taiwanese city of Taichung killed at least four people and injured 24 others on Thursday, the fire department said. The blast occurred on the 12th floor of the building, where construction was taking place, with damage starting from the 9th floor, the department said...
AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas man who murdered his strip club manager and another man, then later prompted a massive lockdown of the state prison system when he used a cellphone smuggled into death row to threaten a lawmaker, was scheduled to be executed Thursday. Richard Lee Tabler, 46, would be the second inmate executed...
As Linda McMahon is set to face a confirmation hearing Thursday to lead the Education Department, several former WWE employees, their family members and two current and former education officials are raising concerns about whether she is fit for the position overseeing more than 50 million students in about 98,000 public schools and 32,000 private...
WASHINGTON — About 75,000 federal employees have accepted the White House’s “deferred resignation” offer to resign but receive pay through September, according to a spokesperson for the Office of Personnel Management. The offer’s deadline closed on Wednesday after a federal judge ruled to end a temporary pause to the program. NBC News cannot independently verify...
SANTA FE, N.M. — A former police officer was found guilty Wednesday of voluntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a Black man during a 2022 confrontation at a New Mexico gas station. Las Cruces police Officer Brad Lunsford’s verdict in a jury trial is the latest outcome in cases that prosecutors have linked to systematic brutality...
WASHINGTON — Republicans on Capitol Hill are full of praise for President Donald Trump’s flurry of executive actions and attempts to slash some federal spending, selling it as the kind of disruption that Americans voted for last fall. That is, until the pain risks hitting home for their constituents. From cuts to health and agriculture...
NASA estimates that the asteroid measures between 130 feet and 300 feet across. In the unlikely event that it did hit Earth, the asteroid would likely “impact at a high velocity” of roughly 38,000 mph, according to the Center for Near Earth Object Studies at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. A space rock of that size...