According to several current and former FBI officials who spoke to NBC News, Acting FBI Director Brian Driscoll resisted a Justice Department request on Friday to help fire agents implicated in riot cases from January 6th with such vigor that several FBI officials believed he would be fired. In the end, the Justice Department decided not to fire Driscoll. In a message distributed to the staff on Friday evening, he stated that he had been directed to dismiss eight top FBI officials and provide the names of all FBI personnel who had been involved in cases involving the Capitol riots. The eight executives have been evicted, but Driscoll did not specify in the document if he would provide the larger list of people connected to January 6th, which he stated includes him and thousands of other FB...

The show must continue in the entertainment sector. This is why Sunday's Grammys, the first awards show since the January wildfires in Los Angeles, are going according to schedule at the Crypto.com Arena. The awards show's sponsor, the Recording Academy, announced in a news release that this year's presentation "will be reimagined to raise funds to support wildfire relief efforts and aid music professionals impacted by the wildfires in Los Angeles." Here are some additional details on the 67th Grammy Awards. Trevor Noah hosts (again) Even though hosting award shows is one of the most unappreciated positions in Hollywood, comedian Trevor Noah seems unfazed. The awards presentation will be hosted by the former host of "The Daily Show" for the fifth year in a row. On X, he posted a beh...

The Teamsters union announced on Saturday that it and Costco had struck a provisional agreement on a new contract, preventing a walkout. The agreement must be approved by members, according to Teamsters spokesperson Matthew McQuaid. The agreement's specifics were not immediately accessible. The Associated Press messaged Costco to request comment. 18,000 Costco employees throughout six states—California, Washington, Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey, and New York—are represented by the Teamsters union. In total, Costco employs 219,000 people in the US and operates 617 shops. Less than 10% of the stores are covered by the company's labor agreement with the Teamsters. In the event that a new three-year contract deal was not negotiated by midnight Friday, when the current contract ended, Costco T...

After winning Saturday's election, Ken Martin, the veteran head of Minnesota's state Democratic Party organization, will take over as chair of the Democratic National Committee as his party attempts to turn the page and bounce back from a disappointing 2024. Using his connections with the more than 400 DNC voting members that he developed over his more than ten years of service within the official Democratic Party, Martin had been the front-runner from the start of the contest. And such connections were crucial since he secured a majority of the first ballot's voters, surpassing the second-place finisher, Wisconsin Democratic Party chair Ben Wikler, by more than 100 votes. As in 2017, following President Donald Trump's previous election victory, the race depended more on the candidates' fu...

After winning Saturday's election, Ken Martin, the veteran head of Minnesota's state Democratic Party organization, will take over as chair of the Democratic National Committee as his party attempts to turn the page and bounce back from a disappointing 2024. Using the connections he had built during more than ten years of work within the institutional Democratic Party with the more than 400 voting members of the DNC, Martin had been the front-runner from the start of the contest. And he secured a majority of the voting members on the first ballot, demonstrating the importance of such relationships. Unlike in 2017, following President Donald Trump's prior election victory, the race was more about the candidates' money and organizing skills than it was about the party's ideology. Former Mary...

Selena Gomez was recently targeted by the White House over a now-deleted video that she uploaded of herself sobbing during recent immigration crackdowns. The mothers of two women and a 12-year-old child who were allegedly murdered by undocumented migrants were featured in a film released by the White House. The mother of Kathy Hamilton, who was murdered and sexually assaulted by El Salvadorian national Walter Javier Martinez in a Maryland mobile home, Tammy Nobles, told Gomez, "You don't know who you're crying for." "What about our children who were brutally murdered, and raped and beat to death and left on the floor by these illegal immigrants?" Nobles inquired. Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt posted the video on X, tagging Gomez. It included snippets of her video, in which she sobbed a...

After winning Saturday's election, Ken Martin, the veteran head of Minnesota's state Democratic Party organization, will take over as chair of the Democratic National Committee as his party attempts to turn the page and bounce back from a disappointing 2024. Using the connections he had built during more than ten years of work within the institutional Democratic Party with the more than 400 voting members of the DNC, Martin had been the front-runner from the start of the contest. Unlike in 2017, following President Donald Trump's prior election victory, the race was more about the candidates' money and organizing skills than it was about the party's ideology. Former Maryland Governor Martin O. Malley had special electoral and governmental expertise, Wisconsin Democratic Party Chairman Ben ...

Washington NBC News and other major news organizations will no longer be housed in Pentagon offices after the Department of Defense announced Friday night that it will implement a new annual media rotation program for its in-house press corps. Politico, National Public Radio, The New York Times, and NBC News are also required to leave their designated workspaces. Without being contacted directly, the news organizations were informed of the new direction in a letter emailed to the press corps. The email that accompanied the memo stated, in part, that no further information will be supplied at this time. According to a message given to the Pentagon Press Association by Pentagon spokesperson John Ullyot, the Pentagon Press Corps has benefited for more than 50 years from operating out of sep...

Josh Mankiewicz covered the June 1998 disappearance of 23-year-old Marcus Rutledge from Nashville, Tennessee, as part of the third season of Dateline's Missing in America podcast in the summer of 2024. "Do you think this case will be solved someday?" Mankiewicz asked Detective Matthew Filter, a cold case detective with the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department. The cold case investigator's response was straightforward: He hopes so. In the podcast, Det. Filter stated, "I would definitely like to get the family some answers, even if I can't bring anybody to justice, just to give them some answers about what happened." After more than 25 years, they finally have some answers in February 2025. Although it has taken some time, the Metro Nashville Police Department provided forensic evidence ...

The future of the U.S. Agency for International Development, which is at the center of America's humanitarian assistance efforts abroad, is still up in the air just one week after the Trump administration started to almost completely freeze U.S. foreign aid. More than a dozen current and former officials and people familiar with the discussions have revealed that Trump administration officials are actively considering transferring USAID's power to the State Department, further hurting an already crippled organization. Nearly 60 senior career officials at USAID have been sidelined, hundreds of employees and contractors have been laid off or placed on furlough, and U.S. foreign operations have come to a halt in the last week. In the next days, thousands more similar occupations could also fa...