TOKYO — A truck and its driver were swallowed by a sinkhole the size of a large swimming pool which appeared at a busy intersection in the Japanese city of Yashio on Tuesday. The crater, approximately 32 feet wide and 16 feet deep, appeared about 10 a.m. local time (8 p.m. ET Monday) Motohiro Ono,...
WASHINGTON — Less than 48 hours after President Donald Trump was inaugurated, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries held a closed-door meeting with Democratic lawmakers to issue a warning and a clarion call. The new administration was going to “flood the zone,” and Democrats couldn’t afford to chase every single outrage — or nothing was going...
The firing of multiple career Justice Department lawyers involved in prosecuting Donald Trump on Monday was designed to intimidate the Justice Department and FBI workforce and deter investigations of Trump’s second administration, five former Justice Department and FBI officials told NBC News. “They are scaring people into behaving a certain way,” said a former senior FBI official, who...
Brian McShea and Stephanie Raynor rummaged through the debris of where their Altadena home once stood to see what they could salvage from the destructive Eaton Fire. While Raynor looked for any items that survived the fire, McShea was looking for a specific item he hoped was still intact. Through the rubble that was remnants...
President Donald Trump suggested Monday that the United States could pay a “small fee” to foreign countries to imprison Americans who are repeat criminal offenders, floating a kind of modern-day penal colony. Trump billed the idea as a cost-saving measure in remarks at a conference for House Republicans in Miami. “If they’ve been arrested many,...
The number of deaths from the wildfires that destroyed entire communities in the Los Angeles area this month has risen to 29, the county medical examiner’s office said Monday. The new reported fatality was someone who died in a hospital from the Palisades Fire, which erupted on Jan. 7 and destroyed thousands of homes in...
CHICAGO — Several Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and other federal personnel waited in unmarked cars as they prepared to approach what they called their target. According to ICE, Christopher Fragoso Lara, a 25-year-old from Mexico, had been convicted of crimes including home invasion, aggravated battery, domestic battery and possession of a weapon. A surveillance...
Google on Monday said its maps will use names for Denali and the Gulf of Mexico favored by President Donald Trump — Mount McKinley and Gulf of America — when federal maps make the switch. In an executive order signed on his first day back in office on Jan. 20, the president ordered the Secretary...
More than 50 civil career servants and foreign service officers at the U.S. Agency for International Development were placed on administrative leave Monday afternoon effective immediately, two former USAID officials, one current agency official and one source directly familiar with the decision told NBC News. In addition to striking at senior leadership in bureaus across the...
President Donald Trump said Monday that the sudden rise of the Chinese artificial intelligence app DeepSeek “should be a wake-up call” for America’s tech companies as the runaway popularity of yet another Chinese app presented new questions for the administration and congressional leaders. Trump said he still expected U.S. tech companies to dominate artificial intelligence,...