Shipping containers packed with lifesaving antibiotics and antimalarial drugs are being held at the Port of Sudan, where they sit in limbo. Essential medicines are expiring in the Democratic Republic of the Congo after a cash-strapped government contractor was forced to shut off the air conditioning. Millions of pounds of American-grown soybeans that were bound...
The top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee is asking the Trump administration to do some explaining about U.S. citizens who were caught up in recent immigration enforcement actions. Following up on a report by NBC News, Rep. Jamie Raskin, House Judiciary Committee ranking member, and Rep. Pramila Jayapal, a subcommittee ranking member, asked for...
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio responded to criticism Tuesday after he announced that Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele had offered to accept deportees from the U.S. of any nationality, as well as violent U.S. citizens currently serving time in American prisons. “That’s an offer President Bukele made. Obviously, we’ll have to study it on our...
Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee raised concerns on Tuesday about law enforcement agents from agencies like the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration and Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives being diverted from their regular duties to help President Trump’s immigration crackdown. “This all-consuming focus on rounding up immigrants is not an efficient use of the Department’s resources,” Reps. Jamie Ruskin, (D-Maryland), Pramila...
The former nanny of best-selling fantasy writer Neil Gaiman and his estranged wife, Amanda Palmer, claims in a lawsuit that Gaiman raped her repeatedly and demanded that she call him “master.” Scarlett Pavlovich filed lawsuits in federal court in Massachusetts, New York and Wisconsin on Monday, accusing Gaiman and Palmer of violating federal human trafficking...
The NFL will remove the words “End Racism” from the end zones at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans ahead of the Super Bowl on Sunday, the NFL confirmed to NBC News. Instead, the field will have stencils of the phrase “Choose Love” as the Kansas City Chiefs take on the Philadelphia Eagles, NFL spokesman Brian...
Just ahead of his meeting Tuesday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Donald Trump said that Palestinians had “no alternative” but to leave their homes in Gaza. Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump called Gaza, which has been decimated by the Israel-Hamas war, a “demolition site” and suggested that its inhabitants would...
The FBI and NYPD raided a business in New York City’s Diamond District Tuesday that investigators say worked with a South American transnational theft group that has been targeting homes belonging to wealthy individuals across the country. Investigators said they are looking into whether any suspects involved in recent burglaries of numerous star athletes’ homes...
Authorities recovered all of the 67 victims from the Potomac River less than a week after an American Airlines flight collided with a military helicopter in the Washington, D.C., area. Search and recovery efforts are over after the crash last Wednesday, with 66 people identified, according to a statement Tuesday from D.C. officials. The Office...
Courtroom video shows the moments a New Mexico murder suspect was attacked during a hearing by his alleged victim’s uncle and stepfather on Friday. Alexander Ortiz, 21, was arrested by Albuquerque police last February in connection with the fatal shooting of his ex-girlfriend, Alianna Farfan, according to a news release. Ortiz was charged with first...