The Kennedy Center will move forward with layoffs “in the days and weeks ahead,” Executive Director Matt Floca said in an email to staff members Wednesday night. The internal announcement comes as the center plans to close for two years of renovations starting in July. “We will begin executing the difficult staffing decisions that support…
President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he will sign an order to pay Transportation Security Administration officers who have gone without paychecks during the funding lapse at Department of Homeland Security. Trump said in a Truth Social post that he would instruct newly sworn-in Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin to “immediately pay our TSA Agents…
For over two decades, Amanda Smith wondered what happened to her mother, who disappeared 24 years ago in North Carolina. In a twist out of Hollywood, she had an emotional reunion Thursday with her mother, who for years didn’t want to be found. Michele Hundley Smith was 38 when she was reported missing in December…
Vice President JD Vance will convene the first meeting of a new White House anti-fraud task force Friday, an administration official told NBC News. The project, which President Donald Trump announced last month in his State of the Union address, is aimed at reducing federal spending by identifying misuse of federal funds. Vance will be…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Randi Weingarten, president of one of America’s most powerful teachers unions, strongly pushed back Thursday on first lady Melania Trump’s comments that humanoid robot teachers could soon become central to children’s education. After appearing with a humanoid robot during an AI education summit Wednesday, Trump said that a humanoid robot educator “will…
The Justice Department has launched an investigation into admissions policies at the Ohio State University College of Medicine, according to the university and a social media post by the head of the department’s Civil Rights Division that appeared to inadvertently reveal it. “Launching a series of civil rights investigations,” Harmeet Dhillon wrote on X, posting…
WASHINGTON — Members of the House Ethics Committee on Thursday will hold a rare public hearing on a sitting member of Congress. The hearing concerns its investigation into Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, D-Fla., who was indicted on charges she stole millions in federal relief funds and used the money to bankroll her congressional campaign. The congresswoman…
Just days after calling mail-in voting, “mail-in cheating,” President Donald Trump on Thursday explained why he decided to cast a mail ballot in a recent Florida special election. “You know what, because I’m president of the United States, and because of the fact that I’m president of the United States, I did a mail-in ballot…
Singer FKA twigs has filed a new lawsuit against ex-boyfriend Shia LaBeouf, renewing an ongoing legal battle and alleging that the actor attempted to silence her through an unlawful nondisclosure agreement. This legal dispute follows accusations made in 2020 by FKA twigs, — born Tahliah Barnett — who alleged the actor subjected her to “relentless…
Ousted Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores are scheduled to appear in a Manhattan federal courtroom Thursday, where their lawyers are expected to argue that their drug trafficking indictment should be thrown out because the U.S. government is blocking their ability to pay for their defense. Last month, Maduro and his wife…