President Donald Trump’s envoy Richard Grenell said on Friday he was headed back to the United States with six American citizens, a surprise development after he met with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas. Officials from the Trump administration had said earlier on Friday that one of Grenell’s top aims for the visit was to secure the release...
As President Donald Trump threatens to impose his first tranche of tariffs on the world Saturday, Chinese manufacturers are bracing for impact. Though Trump is making his biggest initial swing at Canada and Mexico with a proposed 25% tariff, the U.S. president still has China on his radar. After a report that the administration could delay at least some of the...
Just weeks after losing their Malibu home in the deadly Los Angeles-area fires, Milo Ventimiglia and his wife, Jarah Mariano, welcomed their first child. In a post on Instagram on Friday, Mariano announced the birth of daughter Ke’ala Coral Ventimiglia, born on Jan. 23. The post featured a close-up of the couple’s hands, their dog’s paw and...
A private jet carrying two people crashed near a mall in northeast Philadelphia on Friday evening, the Federal Aviation Administration said. Video showed smoke and fire in the area of the crash, but reports of injuries were unavailable. Philadelphia police and fire first responders were at the scene near Roosevelt Mall, according to their social...
A federal judge on Friday sided with a coalition of 22 states and temporarily blocked a federal aid funding freeze directed by the Trump administration — the second such order this week. U.S. District Judge John J. McConnell, in Rhode Island, said in his ruling that the wide-ranging directive in the Office of Management and...
The phone call was chilling. Ken Holmgren didn’t talk to his father often, but during that February 1991 call, Elmer Holmgren told his son that if he didn’t hear from him again in a few days, he should call an agent with the ATF, the federal agency now known as the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,...
Some government web pages briefly went dark Friday after federal agencies were told to comply with a White House order on removing certain language pertaining to diversity, equity and inclusion. Pages for the Federal Aviation Administration, the Census Bureau and the Justice Department were among those that went blank. The FAA and Justice Department later...
Trump administration officials have forced out all six of the FBI’s most senior executives and multiple heads of various FBI field offices across the country, current and former FBI officials told NBC News. They included the high-profile leader of the Washington, DC field office, which was involved in the prosecutions of President Donald Trump. It...
As arrests of immigrants increase, the administration is scrambling to make sure it has the room to house its detainees and keep President Donald Trump’s promise to deport them. Trump’s “border czar,” Tom Homan, told NBC News that Immigration and Customs Enforcement needs 100,000 beds total, more than double what it has currently. Trump alluded...
As federal officials continue investigating what caused the deadliest U.S. air crash in almost a quarter century, understanding what happened inside the Army Black Hawk helicopter — and exactly what altitude it was flying at when it collided with a passenger jet — will likely be key to unraveling the disaster, aviation experts say. A...