Share Irving Azoff says organizing FireAid has kept him too busy to sleep Irving and Shelli Azoff, who are co-hosting the concert in conjunction with other powerful partners, helped pull together the star-studded concert in a span of about 12 days. Irving Azoff, former CEO of Ticketmaster and a giant in the music industry, told...
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. In today’s edition, Sahil Kapur breaks down everything you need to know from a trio of key Senate confirmation hearings. Plus,...
WASHINGTON — Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., cast doubt Thursday over whether Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is qualified to be the next leader of the government’s largest and most powerful health agency. Cassidy, a doctor, has emerged as a key swing vote in Kennedy’s bid to be the secretary of health and human services. Cassidy chairs...
Several top FBI executives promoted by former Director Christopher Wray were told Thursday to resign or retire, and that they will be demoted or reassigned if they don’t leave, according to one current and three former bureau officials. The purge of senior officials includes about a half dozen “executive assistant directors,” who are some of...
Nancy Kerrigan stepped to the microphone at the Boston Skating Club in Norwood, Massachusetts, visibly shaken. Just hours earlier she had heard the news of Wednesday night’s tragedy, in which 64 people aboard a commercial airliner died after it collided with a military helicopter midair near Reagan Washington National Airport. Six of those victims were...
Sean “Diddy” Combs is accused of dangling a person over an apartment balcony and of coercing two additional women into commercial sex acts in an expanded indictment federal prosecutors filed against him Thursday. Combs was indicted in the Southern District of New York in September on charges of sex trafficking, racketeering and transportation to engage...
Though officials stress that air travel has never been safer in America, Wednesday’s accident has raised concerns, particularly in high-traffic areas like the nation’s capital. Reagan National airport presents unique challenges — limits on where commercial flights are allowed to fly, skies congested with military aircraft and plenty of light on the ground, said Shawn...
WASHINGTON — In a crucial day for President Donald Trump’s nominees, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel all descended on Capitol Hill for confirmation hearings Thursday. The nominees to be health and human services secretary, director of national intelligence and FBI director have all generated controversy for a similar reason: Each one...
Fear, anger and confusion have swept across federal agencies as workers grapple with a deluge of orders from President Donald Trump that they see as an effort to “scare” them out of their jobs. In conversations with more than a dozen federal employees across multiple agencies, civil servants said the Trump administration’s rapid changes have...
President Donald Trump’s pick for director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, faced tough questions Thursday from several Republican senators at her confirmation hearing over her past praise for intelligence leaker Edward Snowden and her shifting views on an electronic surveillance program supported by senators whose votes she needs. Gabbard, trying to reassure the GOP lawmakers while accounting for...