President Donald Trump on Tuesday stressed the importance of establishing the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s “exclusive authority” over prediction markets and vowed to protect the cryptocurrency industry. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. “It is critically important that the CFTC’s exclusive authority over Prediction Markets…
Welcome to 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. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Steve Kornacki lays out the key parts of Texas…
WASHINGTON — As President Donald Trump’s team was actively working behind the scenes over Memorial Day weekend to deliver an Iran peace deal, the president’s own social posts left a trail of confusion. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. It started late Saturday afternoon, following a…
The Trump administration is proposing a rule requiring federal workers to sign nondisclosure agreements, according to a draft notice the Office of Personnel Management posted Tuesday. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. “OPM believes that a governmentwide NDA form will promote consistency across Government, better protect…
Fatalities have been confirmed at the scene of an implosion at a manufacturing plant in Longview, Washington, where emergency responders were continuing a recovery operation Tuesday afternoon. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Some people were missing, officials said at a press conference Tuesday afternoon. Local…
Clarence B. Jones, a top civil rights activist and lawyer who helped write part of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s celebrated “I Have a Dream” speech, has died. He was 95. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Jones was one of the organizers of the 1963…
The Republican-led South Carolina Senate on Tuesday voted against a measure to advance a new congressional map, ending the last-minute redistricting effort in the state for now. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. The failed vote was a surprise rejection of President Donald Trump, who had…
ROME — It took a little over a year for Pope Leo XIV to write the 42,000 words of his first encyclical, which deals with the safeguarding of human dignity in the age of artificial intelligence. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Arguably, with the right…
Moscow says more attacks like it could be coming. Russia’s Foreign Ministry warned Monday that it would conduct “systematic strikes” against military targets in Kyiv, including what it called “decision-making centers.” It said this would be in retaliation for a drone attack last week that authorities said killed 21 people including students at a college…
A three-judge panel on Tuesday blocked a Republican-drawn congressional map in Alabama from going into effect, writing that the district lines “intentionally discriminated based on race in violation of the Constitution.” Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. “We cannot see our way clear to requiring Alabamians…