A suitcase containing human remains was recovered by police from New York’s East River on Wednesday evening, police said. The suitcase was found near Governor’s Island, the New York Police Department said in a statement to NBC New York. The department’s Harbor Unit retrieved the suitcase around 5:30 p.m. and took it to Pier 16,...
Attorneys for the Justice Department have agreed to temporarily restrict staffers associated with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from accessing information in the Treasury Department’s payment system. The agreement comes after a group of union members and retirees sued the Treasury Department alleging that providing DOGE access to the federal government’s massive payment and...
Three men who are allegedly part of a theft group from South America were indicted Wednesday in the break-in of Cincinnati Bengals Quarterback Joe Burrow’s home, prosecutors in Ohio said. The three men, all from Chile, were arrested on state charges in Ohio late last month in connection with the break-in, which was discovered at...
First-of-their-kind lawsuits, near-daily staff memos from the little-known acting FBI director and abject fear among agents that they could lose their jobs have distracted and destabilized the FBI workforce, a half-dozen current and former federal law enforcement officials with experience in the bureau told NBC News. The tensions at the country’s most powerful federal law...
The Miami Heat traded star forward Jimmy Butler to the Golden State Warriors on Wednesday, according to multiple reports. Butler, 35, was at odds with the Heat over his contract and had requested a trade last month. He has been suspended by Miami three times for conduct detrimental to the team amid his trade request...
A handcuffed inmate whose fatal beating by correctional officers last year sparked outrage died by homicide, according to findings of an autopsy report shared Wednesday by a lawyer for the man’s family. The report attributed Robert Brooks’ Dec. 10 death to compression of the neck and multiple blunt force injuries, attorney Elizabeth Mazur told NBC...
President Donald Trump’s pick to oversee U.S. intelligence on terrorism threats is a retired Green Beret who has called Jan. 6 rioters “political prisoners” and has had ties to a man police say was a member of the far-right group known as the “Proud Boys.” The selection of Joe Kent as director of the National...
Top officials at the Department of Education told staff Wednesday that if they accept the Trump administration’s deferred resignation package, the education secretary may later cancel it and employees would not have any recourse, potentially leaving them without promised pay. The Office of Personnel Management sent notices last week to federal employees that if they...
The right wing of a Japan Airlines plane struck the tail of a Delta Airlines plane Wednesday morning on the runway at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, officials said. The collision occurred around 10:40 a.m. while the planes were taxiing, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement. Delta said its plane was being deiced when its...
WASHINGTON — Democratic lawmakers are staging protests outside federal agencies, holding resistance-themed news conferences back home and taking to social media as they try to combat President Donald Trump’s moves to remake the government with executive power. Relegated to the minority in Congress and left with few legislative tools to check Trump, Democrats are seeking...