A half-dozen current and former federal law enforcement officials with experience in the FBI told NBC News that the agency's workforce has been distracted and destabilized by first-of-its-kind lawsuits, nearly daily staff memos from the little-known acting FBI director, and agents' intense fear of losing their jobs. Following a Trump administration request for the names of thousands of agents tasked with working on investigations related to the Capitol riots, tensions have arisen within the nation's most powerful federal law enforcement agency. Fears of mass firings have not been allayed by the administration's assurances that it will examine agents' behavior rather than terminate them. According to current and former law enforcement sources, the FBI may be impacted in three harmful ways i...

According to several sources, the Miami Heat traded their star forward Jimmy Butler to the Golden State Warriors on Wednesday. The 35-year-old Butler had asked for a trade last month because he and the Heat were at disagreements over his contract. Due to his actions that were damaging to the team during his trade request drama, Miami has punished him three times. According to reports, the Warriors are sending a protected first-round selection and Andrew Wiggins to Miami. Butler has shot a career-high 54.0% from the field and averaged 17.0 points, 5.2 rebounds, and 4.8 assists in 25 games this season. When asked whether he might rediscover his excitement on the court with the Heat, Butler responded that he had lost it following a loss against the Indiana Pacers in early January. The followi...

A veteran Green Beret, appointed by President Donald Trump to lead U.S. intelligence on terrorist threats, has referred to the Jan. 6 rioters as "political prisoners" and has connections to a man who police said was a member of the far-right organization known as the "Proud Boys." The administration's decision to appoint partisan activists and allies to high-level government roles in intelligence, law enforcement, and diplomacy includes Joe Kent's appointment as director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC). Trump and his followers have claimed that the intelligence agency needs a drastic reform because it has previously attempted to discredit the president. The National Counterterrorism Center maintains a database of all known and suspected terrorists and is in charge of U.S. go...

According to the results of an autopsy report released Wednesday by the man's family attorney, a handcuffed prisoner whose death beating by correctional guards last year caused outcry died by homicide. According to the findings, Robert Brooks died on December 10 from multiple blunt force injuries and neck compression, lawyer Elizabeth Mazur told NBC News. The defense team for the family claimed in a statement that the autopsy report validated what was already obvious. The brutal death of Robert Brooks was a homicide. We anticipate that those responsible will be prosecuted. We are continuing to pursue justice for Mr. Brooks and his family in the interim. A finding of homicide does not necessarily indicate misconduct. It indicates that someone else caused the person's death. According to a ...

Washington The roles of Donald Trump, the president, and Donald Trump, the real estate tycoon, are beginning to conflate in his current administration. He began by attacking the Panama Canal, Greenland, and Canada. Trump is currently considering Gaza as America's next big acquisition. The president declared Tuesday night that the small strip of land along the Mediterranean Sea in a Middle East conflict zone could become the French Riviera and would be worth a long-term ownership stake. Go here to watch live political coverage. Even congressional Republicans were taken aback by his comments, which centered on his proposal to take control of Gaza. In an X post on Wednesday, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., stated, "I believed we voted for America First." It is not our place to consider another occu...

According to a National Head Start Association survey, dozens of Head Start programs—which offer low-income children childcare and preschool education—have been unable to obtain previously authorized federal funding, putting some programs in danger of closing their doors in the near future. The programs claim that since a federal funding freeze was declared in the second week of the Trump administration, they have not been able to access the money to cover costs such as payroll and electricity. An Office of Management and Budget document that initiated the freeze last week was swiftly withdrawn. A judge delayed the action amid a legal challenge to the freeze, and the White House stated that the freeze shouldn't have harmed Head Start programs. However, according to the report, funding dela...

On Wednesday, top officials at the Department of Education warned employees that if they accept the deferred resignation package offered by the Trump administration, the education secretary may later rescind it, leaving workers without any recourse and possibly without the promised pay. Federal employees were notified last week by the Office of Personnel Management that they may keep their salary and benefits through the end of September if they leave by February 6. As part of a plan to reduce the size of the federal bureaucracy, the Trump administration is seeking to get up to 10% of the workers to resign. However, at an all-staff meeting conducted via Zoom on Wednesday, the department's new chief of staff, Rachel Oglesby, and top human capital officer, Jacqueline Clay, explained importan...

According to officials, on Wednesday morning on the runway at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, the right wing of a Japan Airlines aircraft collided with the tail of a Delta Airlines aircraft. According to a statement from the Federal Aviation Administration, the crash happened at approximately 10:40 a.m. when the aircraft were taxiing. Delta said that when its tail was clipped, the aircraft was being deiced. There were no reported injuries. The National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration will look into it. According to the FAA, some flights were halted at the airport. Delta said it rebooked passengers on a another trip after trip 1921, a Boeing 737 carrying 142 passengers, was supposed to depart Seattle for Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. According to Japan A...

Washington Democratic lawmakers are attempting to counter President Donald Trump's efforts to restructure the government through executive power by hosting resistance-themed press conferences at home, protesting outside federal agencies, and using social media. Democrats are trying to mobilize voters against Trump's efforts to freeze federal loans and grants, dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development and other agencies, and grant billionaire Elon Musk, his government efficiency czar, access to Americans' federal data. This is because Democrats are relegated to the minority in Congress and lack the legislative tools necessary to check Trump. Congressional Democrats protested outside USAID on Monday. They showed up outside the Treasury Department on Tuesday. They addressed tw...

Greenbelt, Maryland. As the lawsuit moves through the courts, a federal judge on Wednesday placed President Donald Trump's order to limit birthright citizenship on indefinite pause worldwide, stating that U.S. citizenship is a right just as valuable as life or liberty. During a hearing in Greenbelt, U.S. District Judge Deborah L. Boardman stated that the executive order is in violation of the plain wording of the 14th Amendment, goes against the 250-year tradition of citizenship by birth in our country, and contradicts a 125-year-old binding Supreme Court precedent. The president's perspective has never been supported by any national court. It won't be the first court. On February 19, the order was scheduled to take effect. The preliminary injunction issued on Wednesday is the second sh...