According to officials, security at Los Angeles International Airport prevented a passenger from bringing "a surprising number of prohibited items" on a flight headed to Philadelphia, including numerous firearms and dozens of pyrotechnics. A woman was identified by Transportation Security Administration personnel for passing her carry-on luggage through the X-ray machine at Terminal 4 at approximately 10 p.m. on December 15, according to the agency. The TSA stated in a statement Friday that the officer "was shocked" to discover "82 consumer grade fireworks, three knives, two replica firearms, and one canister of pepper spray" in the luggage. Whether the tourist was detained or denied access to her trip to Philadelphia was not immediately apparent. Jason Pantages, the TSA's federal security...

According to an announcement made last week, the IRS will begin issuing automatic special payments of up to $1,400 to one million taxpayers later this month. People who are entitled for the money but did not claim the 2021 Recovery Rebate Credit on their tax returns for that year would get the payouts. People who did not receive one or more economic impact payments—also referred to as stimulus checks—that were delivered by the federal government in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak are eligible for the Recovery Rebate Credit, a refundable tax credit. According to the IRS, the maximum payout will be $1,400 per person and will change depending on the situation. An estimated $2.4 billion will be paid by the agency overall. In a statement, IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel stated, "After reviewing...

In reaction to Blake Lively's complaint against her It Ends With Us co-star Justin Baldoni, Amber Heard told NBC News on Monday that she "saw this firsthand" and that social media is where lies turn into the truth. In an undated complaint to the California Civil Rights Department, Lively accused the film's director, Baldoni, of sexual harassment, fostering a hostile work environment, and attempting to damage her reputation through a targeted social media campaign. According to the complaint, Baldoni recruited Melissa Nathan, a well-known public relations crisis manager, who was employed by Johnny Depp during his high-profile defamation trial against his ex-wife Heard. Heard, who resides in Spain, stated in an exclusive statement to NBC News that social media is the perfect example of the a...

EVANSTON, Illinois. Kenneth Wideman has spent his entire life in Evanston, in the 5th Ward, a community bounded by elevated railroad tracks and a canal. His parents relocated there from South Carolina as part of the Great Migration, a 60-year-long exodus of 6 million Black people from the Jim Crow South. In the 1940s, when Wideman was born, Evanston was the biggest Black suburb in the state, with the 5th Ward housing 95% of the city's Black residents. But there was a reason why that neighborhood was so heavily populated by Black people. Through targeted zoning, the city started evicting Black residents from areas beyond the 5th Ward in 1919. Subsequently, federal authorities enabled discriminatory banking practices and racially restrictive housing laws, which deterred lenders from offeri...

According to the most recent tax returns, Del Bigtree, a prominent figure in the anti-vaccine movement, generated a record windfall for the nonprofit organization he formed last year. Revenue for 2023 was $23 million, a 74% increase over 2022, according to the Informed Consent Action Network, or ICAN. The group's expenditures on legal challenges and anti-vaccine advocacy were close to $17 million, a roughly 25% rise over the previous year. The tax records, which NBC News acquired from ICAN, demonstrate the growing popularity and financial success of the anti-vaccine movement in the continuous battle over public health and vaccine regulations. The pandemicsupercharged groups like ICAN, which reported about $3.5 million in revenue in 2019, expanding the audience interested in anti-vaccine co...

A few folks on your purchasing list could have fallen through the cracks because the holidays can get very busy. Thankfully, there are lots of considerate gift suggestions that won't look like they were thrown together at the last minute. On their websites, a lot of firms even provide a cutoff date for placing orders so that they arrive in time for the holidays. I've compiled a list of some of our best last-minute gift suggestions that should arrive in time for the holidays to help you locate the ideal present for everyone on your list. Remember that most brands have shipping cutoff dates that have passed, so the closer you go to the holidays, the shorter your window for shopping is. Although there are a number of alternatives with same-day or next-day shipping to give you the best possibi...

On Monday, Japanese manufacturers Honda and Nissan declared that they had officially begun negotiations to combine and form the third-largest carmaker in the world based on sales. Honda CEO Toshihiro Mibe stated during a press conference on Monday that the company required more size in order to compete in the development of new technologies in intelligent driving and electric vehicles. According to a translation, Mibe stated that a business merger would provide the companies with an advantage that is not achievable under the current framework for collaboration. According to him, the agreement would seek to preserve both trademarks while exchanging resources and intelligence in order to create economies of scale and synergies. Honda and Nissan would both be listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchang...

In addition to surpassing Donald Trump's record for the most federal judge nominations, President Joe Biden has appointed more federal judges of color than any other president. Benjamin Cheeks, Biden's judicial nominee for the Southern District of California U.S. District Court, was confirmed by the Senate on Friday. According to the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, Biden has chosen 63 Black federal judges with Cheeks' confirmation, the most of any president. Tiffany Johnson, Biden's judicial candidate for the Northern District of Georgia, was confirmed by the Senate earlier this month, becoming the 40th Black woman he has nominated to lifetime federal judgeships—more than any other president in a single term. According to data the White House provided to NBC News, approxim...

There are probably a ton of lotions for your face and body in your medical cabinet. However, what about neck creams? According to board-certified dermatologist Dr. Arash Akhavan, who specializes in the neck area, a neck cream is made to target certain skin difficulties in that area in ways that other moisturizers cannot, despite the fact that some people may contend that moisturizers for your face, body, and neck are all the same. As we mature, the neck may eventually become crepey skin and fine wrinkles, just like the face. Fortunately, specialists claim that neck creams can help address and avoid these issues. I asked board-certified dermatologists for their opinions on the finest neck creams, including what active ingredients to look for to help address these issues and other things to ...

Numerous death row sentences are commuted by Biden. When someone claims that Elon Musk is in charge, Donald Trump responds. Additionally, four families that joined health care sharing ministries and were left in debt are interviewed by NBC News. What to know today is as follows. Biden commute dozens of death row sentences to life without parole Only three death row convicts remain in federal prisons after President Joe Biden announced that he was commuting the death sentences of 37 criminals. According to the White House, the commuted sentences would be reclassified as life terms with no chance of release. "In cases other than terrorism and hate-motivated mass murder, these commutations are consistent with the moratorium my Administration has imposed on federal executions," Biden sa...