A person who has been affiliated with Elon Musk’s SpaceX and a former aide to one of the FBI’s toughest Congressional critics are working as advisers to the bureau’s director, four current and former FBI officials tell NBC News. The two are among a group of at least four people who have been brought into the FBI to advise its...
Share Chopper circling above the Potomac after crash Reporting from Alexandria, Va. The lights of dozens of emergency vehicles fill the skyline across the Potomac River. A helicopter has been circling above the Potomac, with its searchlight aimed toward the water. There is nothing visible in the water from my vantage point. Onlookers have filled...
AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas man released from prison under President Donald Trump’s sweeping pardons over the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol is wanted by authorities on a 2016 charge of soliciting a minor online, prosecutors say. Andrew Taake, 36, was accused of attacking police officers with bear spray and a metal whip during the Capitol assault....
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s flurry of actions in his first week knocked Democrats back on their heels, dividing the party on how to respond to major parts of his agenda and several of his high-profile nominees. But on Monday, Trump’s haphazard attempt to impose a sweeping freeze on federal aid across the government awakened...
COLDSPRING, Texas — A man accused of killing five people in Texas in 2023 after a neighbor complained that he was keeping a baby awake by firing a gun in his yard late at night pleaded guilty Wednesday to murder charges and will serve a life sentence without the possibility of parole, a prosecutor said. Francisco Oropeza,...
A man who planned to marry the suspect in the killing of a U.S. Border Patrol agent has himself been arrested and accused of murdering a California resident just three days before the agent was fatally shot, court records show. The charges against the man, Maximilian Snyder, mark the latest twist in the saga involving...
As the Trump administration’s immigration raids ramped up across America, many were stunned to see a former daytime TV staple take center stage — Philip McGraw, commonly known as “Dr. Phil,” who accompanied ICE agents during raids around Chicago. McGraw, who came to national fame alongside Oprah Winfrey and hosted “Dr. Phil” for more than two...
While several major companies and organizations are eliminating or scaling back diversity programs under conservative pressure and amid a push to exorcise them from the federal government, some others, including Delta Airlines and the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers, say they’re standing firm in the shifting political winds. “DEI is not something that’s going to stop at Delta...
President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed a memo that sets in motion preparations for a facility to house thousands of migrants at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, which he said was an effort to “halt the border invasion.” “I hereby direct the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security to take all appropriate actions to expand...
Meta said Wednesday it would pay $25 million to settle a four-year-old lawsuit from President Donald Trump over the social media company’s decision to suspend Trump’s accounts after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, filed a notice of the settlement in federal court in...