A detective investigating the death of a Telemundo reporter in New Orleans testified Tuesday that the journalist was found to have a commonly used anti-anxiety drug in his system that he did not have a prescription for, a Jefferson Parish official says.

Apple said it is working on repairing a glitch after some iPhone users noticed that speaking the word “racist” into the voice-to-text feature causes it to write “Trump” before quickly switching to “racist.”

As the measles outbreak in Texas keeps spreading, parents who previously chose not to vaccinate their children are now lining up to get their kids the shots needed to protect them from the serious illness.

NEW: Trump administration immigration officials are planning a nationwide operation to locate and potentially deport children who came into the United States without a parent or legal guardian, according to two sources familiar with the plan.

BREAKING: WNBA legend Diana Taurasi, the league's all-time leading scorer, announces her retirement after 20 seasons.

LATEST: Russia has proposed to the Trump administration a potential agreement under which the U.S. would gain some ownership of rare earth minerals and other valuable metals in parts of Ukraine currently controlled by the Russian military, sources say.

Lawmakers in at least nine states have introduced measures to try to chip away at same-sex couples’ right to marry.

Southwest plane narrowly avoids runway collision with jet at Chicago airport:

"It's leading to paralysis, and nothing is getting done," one Veterans Administration official says.

NEW: As a measles outbreak sweeps through Texas, with at least 124 cases and hospitalizing 18 people, anti-vaccine groups are pushing a familiar and false theory — that the highly contagious virus is being caused by the vaccine itself. reports:

NEW: A federal judge blocks President Trump’s executive order pausing the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program, siding with arguments that the order likely exceeded the president's authority.

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The FAA is investigating a near-miss collision between a private jet and a Southwest Airlines plane Tuesday morning in Chicago.

UPDATE: A person was struck and killed by a BART train after they fell on the tracks at the Civic Center station in San Francisco, according to the San Francisco Fire Department. nbcbay.com/n11W8Vp

21 U.S. DOGE Service staffers resigned en masse Tuesday, according to a letter posted online & shared w/ media outlets Musk says they were "Dem political holdovers" who "would have been fired had they not resigned" w/ & www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

Millions of women are at high risk for breast cancer, but their insurance companies don’t cover the additional screenings that are often recommended to detect the disease. This means they must pay hundreds and sometimes thousands out of pocket for them. nbcnews.to/3D7YcS8

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The state of Texas announced Monday it is investigating two big lottery jackpots in the state where the winning tickets were purchased through a courier service, as the state's lottery office announced it was banning such services.

21 civil service employees resign from Elon Musk's DOGE, saying in a letter that they refused to use their technical expertise to "compromise core government systems, jeopardize Americans’ sensitive data, or dismantle critical public services." More: nbcnews.to/3QxM7Zs

✍ "When asked explicitly who would make the final call on personnel decisions for the Patriots, Mike Vrabel immediately highlighted one individual: himself." reports from the NFL Combine on the message Vrabel sent about the Patriots' front office hierarchy 🔽

217-211, House passes RULE to advance the budget resolution along party lines. Vote on the budget is expected later today. One Republican was absent: Crenshaw. Four Democrats were absent, which could help Rs pass it if they don’t show up: Grijalva Mullin Pettersen Wilson (FL)

Elon Musk's status as the world's wealthiest person is in no danger of changing. But since mid-December, the tech titan's net worth has declined by more than $100 billion.

Travis Kelce is shaking it off and is expected to come back next season, according to the Kansas City Chiefs GM.

Shareholders of Apple voted against dismantling its diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, rebuffing a conservative think tank’s recommendation.

Utah is gearing up to make history as the first state to ban fluoride in public water systems if Gov. Spencer Cox signs a bill to prohibit the addition of the tooth decay-fighting mineral.

"Not a single dime of taxpayer money is being saved by firing me," an employee said. "People are standing up and people are listening," a former ranger said. "We’re going to keep fighting. Federal employees across all agencies matter."

NEW: Workers who were fired at Yosemite National Park in the Trump administration's effort to shrink the federal government say the upside-down U.S. flag hung from the top of El Capitan was a call to reinstate employees and protect public lands.

Twenty-one civil service employees have resigned from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, saying they're refusing to use their technical expertise to “dismantle critical public services.” nbc4dc.com/dAkKXgU

Speaker Johnson says he is plowing forward this week with a vote on House Republicans' multitrillion-dollar budget blueprint, a crucial test for President Trump's legislative agenda. But a band of conservatives is threatening to tank the vote.

The comptroller general of the Government Accountability Office is on Capitol Hill to present his agency’s report on areas ripe for improvement and at risk of waste — a more traditional perspective on a hot issue in the era of Elon Musk's DOGE.

A married couple said they were forced to sit next to a dead woman's body for four hours on a flight from Australia to Qatar.

Jon Stewart injured his hand when he smashed a coffee mug while he spoke about how the Department of Government Efficiency is approaching pharmaceutical subsidies during a segment on the agency’s budget cuts.

South Korean parliamentary lawyers seeking President Yoon Suk Yeol’s removal over his short-lived imposition of martial law compared him to a dictator in final arguments during his impeachment trial.

BREAKING: Supreme Court tosses an Oklahoma death row inmate’s conviction over a flawed trial in which a key witness lied and prosecutors withheld information.

Responses to the Elon Musk-directed email to government employees about what work they’d accomplished over the past week are expected to be fed into an AI system to determine whether those jobs are necessary, sources say. reports:

NEW: Sen. Lisa Murkowski tells me she is unhappy with the way Elon Musk are going about trimming the federal workforce. there is a “right way and a wrong way” to deal with layoffs of federal employees.. & they “have been treated with a level of disregard to their service and to their tenure.”

President Trump said during a White House meeting with French President Macron that he had "specifically asked" Russian President Putin about peacekeepers and that Putin "has no problem with it," but the Kremlin contradicted those comments.

Millions of people around the world are feeling the repercussions of President Trump’s decision to freeze international aid for 90 days and shut down US AID, by far the largest provider of foreign assistance around the world.

LATEST: Pope Francis "rested well" throughout the Monday night as he continued to battle double pneumonia in hospital, the Vatican says.

The remains of a United Kingdom man missing for nearly two-and-a-half years have been found in a privately owned wooded area near Kingsland, Georgia, the FBI says.

Rudy Giuliani has "fully satisfied" a judgment against him after defaming two former Georgia election workers by falsely accusing them of election fraud in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential contest, according to a federal court filing Monday.

Iraq’s first census in nearly 40 years shows the country's population has reached 46.1 million.

Russia, waging war against NATO-supplied Ukrainian forces, and China, under pressure from a concerted U.S. effort to counter its growing military and economic strength, increasingly have found common geopolitical cause.

After facing blowback from constituents, several House Republicans are returning to Washington this week on a mission to demand both more information and a more considerate approach from the Elon Musk-led effort to downsize the federal government.

A California woman who admitted killing her estranged husband more than two decades ago and is now wanted in the fatal stabbing of her wife is being sought by federal authorities, a law enforcement official says.

A Nebraska man is fighting to get a Social Security number and valid birth certificate for his toddler, Caroline — whose name is incorrectly listed in state records as “Unakite Thirteen Hotel.”

An Indiana man convicted of murder in the 2022 fatal shooting of a Dutch solider in downtown Indianapolis has been sentenced to 105 years in prison, the prosecutor’s office says.

NEW: Info gathered from Musk's 5 accomplishments email is expected to be run through an AI system to determine whether or not someone's work is mission-critical, according to three sources with knowledge of the system www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

Dan Bongino, the conservative podcaster named deputy director of the FBI, has spent years publicly criticizing the agency he will now help run, pushing conspiracy theories about corrupt FBI leadership and agents who were out to get President Donald Trump.

A young Venezuelan who was deported back to his country said he was "traumatized" by his time in a U.S. military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

An NFL team has submitted a proposal to ban the quarterback sneak known as the “tush push,” NFL executive vice president of football operations says.

NEW: HHS emails employees warning responses to Musk email may "be read by malign foreign actors" “Assume that what you write will be read by malign foreign actors and tailor your response accordingly," it read w/ +@berkeleyjr.bsky.social www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

The Department of Health and Human Services sent agency employees an email warning them that any responses to Elon Musk’s request that they share their accomplishments from the past week might “be read by malign foreign actors," employees tell NBC News.

NEW: Some senior CISA officials were informed late last week that DOGE had been granted access to agency staffers' emails and Microsoft Teams chats. The agency at large has not been informed.

The Trump administration is reinstating some employees in the FDA's medical devices division after dozens were laid off as part of a government-wide cost-cutting initiative led by billionaire Elon Musk and his DOGE, according to two people familiar with the matter. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

The Trump administration is reinstating some employees in the FDA's medical devices division after dozens were laid off by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.

NEW: Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency has gained access to the internal emails and Microsoft Teams chats of employees at the country’s top cybersecurity agency, a source says.

NEW: Trump administration does not have to allow Associated Press access yet, judge rules. The AP was barred indefinitely from accessing the Oval Office and Air Force One, as it had in the past, because of its refusal to change its style on the Gulf of Mexico.

House Republicans holding town halls in their districts are facing crowds with heated questions about the sweeping budget cuts and mass firings of federal workers carried out by President Trump and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.

A retired surgeon accused of raping and sexually assaulting 299 people admitted in court that he committed “hideous” acts, as France’s largest ever child sexual abuse case got underway.