Jun 12 2022 — NBC News — Key senators announced a framework agreement on new gun legislation Sunday, marking a breakthrough on a collection of measures to combat gun violence, including “red flag” laws and enhanced background checks on gun buyers. The chief negotiators of the deal are Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., an outspoken proponent of gun safety laws, and Sen. John […]
Jun 10 2022 — NBC News — Ally after ally of former President Donald Trump — his eldest daughter, his former attorney general, a former senior campaign aide — admitted to congressional investigators that his claims that the 2020 election were stolen from him were false. That testimony were just some the revelations during the first day of the Jan. 6 committee […]
Jun 1 2022 — NBC News — Multiple people were shot inside an Oklahoma hospital Wednesday and authorities said the gunman was killed. The gunfire erupted about 5 p.m. at St. Francis Hospital in Tulsa, Police Capt. Richard Meulenberg said. In a statement, the police department said a man armed with a rifle entered a building on the hospital’s campus on Wednesday […]
May 21 2022 — NBC News — Australia’s prime minister has conceded defeat after an election that could deliver a minority government. Prime Minister Scott Morrison acted quickly after Saturday’s election despite millions of votes yet to be counted because an Australian prime minister must attend a Tokyo summit on Tuesday with U.S., Japanese and Indian leaders. “I believe it’s very important […]
May 19 2022 — NBC News — Jocelyn Benson, Michigan’s top election official, faced an onslaught of threats after the 2020 presidential election for refusing to overturn results that showed Joe Biden had won the state. In those hectic weeks, she says she also received an especially disturbing piece of information: President Donald Trump suggested in a White House meeting that she […]
May 14 2022 — NBC News — Ten people were killed and three wounded in a mass shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, on Saturday afternoon that law enforcement described as a racially motivated hate crime. The suspect, an 18-year-old white man dressed in tactical gear was taken into custody after shooting 13 people at the Tops Friendly Market supermarket […]
May 10 2022 — NBC News — The world is creeping closer to the warming threshold international agreements are trying to prevent, with nearly a 50-50 chance that Earth will temporarily hit that temperature mark within the next five years, teams of meteorologists across the globe predicted. With human-made climate change continuing, there’s a 48 percent chance that the globe will reach […]
May 3 2022 — NBC News — In what would amount to an unprecedented leak in modern times, Politico on Monday night published what it said was a draft opinion indicating the Supreme Court would overturn the abortion rights enshrined in Roe v. Wade in a pending case later this year. The document, reportedly authored by Justice Samuel Alito and circulated in […]
Apr 25 2022 — NBC News — Elon Musk is buying Twitter and taking it private. Twitter’s board of directors unanimously agreed to Musk’s offer to purchase the social media platform at a price of $44 billion, the company announced Monday. The deal brings arguably the internet’s most influential platform under the control of one of the world’s richest people. Musk, a […]
Apr 25 2022 — NBC News — A New York state judge on Monday found Donald Trump in civil contempt of court and ordered him to pay $10,000 a day until he turns over documents that have been subpoenaed by the state attorney general’s office. Attorney General Letitia James had sought the fine as a way to force the former president to […]
Apr 12 2022 — NBC News — President Joe Biden on Tuesday said the atrocities committed by Russia in Ukraine amounted to “genocide,” marking the first time he has leveled the accusation against President Vladimir Putin. “More evidence is coming out about literally the horrible things that the Russians have done in Ukraine,” Biden told reporters during a trip to Iowa. “And […]
Apr 7 2022 — NBC News — Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson became the first Black woman to be elevated to the Supreme Court when the Democratic-controlled Senate on Thursday confirmed President Joe Biden’s pick. The final vote was 53 to 47, with all 50 Democratic caucus members supporting Jackson, joined by Republican Sens. Susan Collins, of Maine, Lisa Murkowski, of Alaska, and […]
Mar 9 2022 — NBC News — A children’s hospital in the besieged Ukrainian port city of Mariupol was “completely destroyed” in the midst of Russian airstrikes, city officials said Wednesday, with video showing a charred building missing windows and surrounded by piles of debris. It was not immediately clear if there were casualties or how many people were inside the hospital, […]
Feb 27 2022 — NBC News — President Vladimir Putin has ordered his military’s nuclear deterrent forces to be on alert as international tension builds over Russia’s four-day-old invasion of Ukraine. Putin said in a meeting of top officials on Sunday that the move was in response to leading NATO powers making what he called “aggressive statements,” according to Tass, the state-owned […]
Feb 25 2022 — NBC News — President Joe Biden announced Friday that he will nominate Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, to succeed Justice Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court. In a tweet, Biden said Jackson “is one of our nation’s brightest legal minds and will be an exceptional Justice.” Biden […]