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Trump names Kari Lake’s replacement at Voice of America parent agency
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Trump names Kari Lake’s replacement at Voice of America parent agency

President Donald Trump nominated a senior State Department official Thursday for the top post at the U.S. Agency for Global Media after a federal judge ruled that Kari Lake’s leadership violated federal law. Trump nominated Sarah Rogers, the undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, less than a week after U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth ordered...

What we know about the car ramming attack on a Michigan synagogue
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What we know about the car ramming attack on a Michigan synagogue

The FBI is investigating a car ramming attack on a large Detroit-area synagogue Thursday as a “targeted act of violence against the Jewish community,” the special agent in charge for the region said. The suspect was killed by security staff at Temple Israel synagogue in West Bloomfield Township, officials said. A preschool was in session...

Fort Bliss detention center to get new operator after scrutiny
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Fort Bliss detention center to get new operator after scrutiny

The Trump administration plans to tap a major engineering and electronic services company to run the country’s largest immigration detention center, where one detainee was killed and two others have died. The Department of Homeland Security intends to award the no-bid contract to run Camp East Montana and manage its detainees to Chantilly, Virginia-based Amentum...

Trump changes his tune on oil prices: From the Politics Desk
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Trump changes his tune on oil prices: From the Politics Desk

This is the online version of From the Politics Desk, a daily 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, Jonathan Allen sorts through President Donald Trump’s messaging shift on oil prices. Plus, Jane C. Timm dives...

The White House compares deadly conflict with video games and movies in memeified videos to win support for Iran war
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The White House compares deadly conflict with video games and movies in memeified videos to win support for Iran war

The White House’s video Friday began with a brief clip from the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. It quickly transitioned to footage of the U.S. military bombing an Iranian vehicle. “Wasted” soon appeared on the screen, the same image that flashes across the game when a player dies. “L1, R1, SQUARE, R1, LEFT,...

UFC fighters head to Quantico to train FBI agents
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UFC fighters head to Quantico to train FBI agents

While the job of a UFC fighter is to “take down” an opponent, FBI agents are trained to gauge a situation and “use a minimum amount of force to subdue a person so they are no longer a threat to the agents or themselves,” he said. “Part of the nuance of the job is talking...