More than a century after the NAACP adopted “Lift Every Voice and Sing” as the “Black national anthem,” the song has sparked social media-fueled backlash in the lead-up to Sunday’s Super Bowl in New Orleans. Rep. Lauren Boebert said on X that there’s “ONE NATIONAL ANTHEM.” Another critic called the song, which speaks to resiliency...
An Ohio city that was racked with chaos and threats last year related to an influx of Haitian immigrants filed a lawsuit on Thursday against a neo-Nazi group that it alleges was at the heart of the onslaught. The city of Springfield, Mayor Rob Rue and several others sued the Blood Tribe, its leaders Christopher...
As millions of federal workers face a looming deadline to decide whether to accept the Trump administration’s unprecedented buyout offer, questions remain over whether the plan is even valid without Congress’ approval, according to interviews with federal law and labor experts. More than 60,000 employees have already agreed to resign as part of President Donald...
The Trump administration is moving forward with restarting the detention of migrant families, including those with young children, which could mean an increase in arrests of children and teens, according to three sources familiar with the planning. The sources said Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is preparing to publish in the coming days a “Request...
In Colombia, a group with funds from the U.S. Agency for International Development helps employ Venezuelans who fled their country’s authoritarian regime and economic crisis. In Haiti, another program that gets USAID money is ready to distribute millions of tons of bean seeds to farmers and tools for fishermen that would help sustain families amid...
Time published its latest cover Friday morning, featuring a striking image of a government leader sitting behind the Resolute desk in the Oval Office. But it’s not President Donald Trump. It’s Elon Musk, Trump’s supposed right-hand man and the lead of the new Department of Government Efficiency. On the cover, Musk sits smiling and holding...
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. Happy Friday! Best of luck to our Kansas City and Philadelphia readers this Super Bowl weekend. In today’s edition, Henry J....
A federal judge on Friday said he will pause a midnight deadline for the U.S. Agency for International Development to be stripped down to a few hundred workers from a workforce of more than 5,000. U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols made the announcement from the bench after a hearing at a federal courthouse in Washington D.C....
WASHINGTON — Agents at Immigration and Customs Enforcement are under increasing pressure to boost the number of arrests and deportations of undocumented immigrants, as President Donald Trump has expressed anger that the amount of people deported in the first weeks of his administration is not higher, according to three sources familiar with the discussions at ICE and the White...
President Donald Trump has tapped Vice President J.D. Vance to broker a potential sale of TikTok to a U.S.-based entity before the most recent ban extension elapses in April, according to two people familiar with the arrangement. In the latest chapter of the TikTok saga — which began in 2020 with Trump and culminated in...