Officials verified that a guy was unintentionally murdered at a high school track and field event in Colorado on Sunday morning after a competitor's thrown hammer weight struck him after clearing barriers. The spectator was recognized by the El Paso County Coroner's Office as 57-year-old Wade Langston. According to a statement from the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs, Langston was at a meet when the hammer—a weight on a grip that is swung in a circular motion and then thrown—went into the audience instead of the field at around 9:30 a.m. A member of the audience was killed when a hammer thrown by a competitor struck him after it cleared certified barriers during a club sports track and field meet for high school students from all over Colorado at the Mountain Lion Fieldhouse on ...

On Monday, President Donald Trump proposed that the United States pay a nominal fee to foreign countries to house repeat offenders in American prisons, thereby creating a sort of contemporary penal colony. During his remarks at a gathering for House Republicans in Miami, the president marketed the notion as a cost-cutting tool. Trump stated, "I want them out of our country if they have been arrested a lot and they are repeat offenders by a large number." Hopefully, we will obtain permission to remove them from our nation, along with others, and allow them to be transported abroad to be cared for by others for a very nominal cost." Trump claimed that by doing this, the federal government would be able to avoid using private prisons, which he claimed cost Americans a fortune, and American j...

Chicago As they got ready to approach what they referred to as their target, a number of Customs Enforcement and Immigration officers, together with other federal employees, waited in unmarked vehicles. Christopher Fragoso Lara, 25, of Mexico, was convicted of a number of offenses, including possession of a firearm, domestic battery, aggravated battery, and home invasion, according to ICE. He had been seen by a surveillance crew at his place of employment, a tire store in Chicago, on Monday morning. As Fragoso Lara was speaking to a customer outdoors in below-freezing weather, agents blocked off the street outside the establishment and took him into custody. When NBC News was infiltrated with the agents during operations across the Chicago area on Monday morning, the arrest happened with...

The county medical examiner's office said Monday that 29 people had died as a result of the wildfires that burned entire towns in the Los Angeles area this month. According to a statement from the office, the new reported death was a hospitalized person who perished in the Palisades Fire, which broke out on January 7 and destroyed thousands of homes in the Pacific Palisades and along the Pacific Coast. According to fire officials, the Palisades Fire started on January 7 under strong winds and has now burned 23,448 acres and destroyed 6,837 confirmed residences and other structures. According to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, damage assessment teams are almost done with their inspections. As of Monday night, the fire was 95% contained. Residents who had previousl...

Chicago As they got ready to approach what they referred to as their target, a number of Customs Enforcement and Immigration officers, together with other federal employees, waited in unmarked vehicles. Christopher Fragoso Lara, 25, is from Mexico and was convicted of aggravated battery, domestic battery, home invasion, and firearm possession, according to ICE. He had been seen by a surveillance crew at his place of employment, a tire store in Chicago, on Monday morning. As Fragoso Lara was speaking to a customer outdoors in below-freezing weather, agents blocked off the street outside the establishment and took him into custody. When NBC News was infiltrated with the agents during operations across the Chicago area on Monday morning, the arrest happened without any problems. Before daw...

Washington Several Senate Republicans are opposed to President Donald Trump's choice of former Representative Lori Chavez-DeRemer as labor secretary, pointing to her prior pro-union views that are at odds with those of the business community. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., a senior member of the committee that would supervise her nomination, told NBC News on Monday that he would not back her. I am the principal author of the right-to-work bill and its national spokesperson. I don't think it's a good thing that she supports the PRO Act, which would not only conflict with the national right to work but also supersede state laws pertaining to that right. Watch live political coverage And supporting her would be difficult for me because it's a major concern of mine. He said, "So I won't support her...

On Monday, Google announced that when federal maps change their names, they will adopt the names that President Donald Trump prefers for Denali, the Gulf of Mexico, Mount McKinley, and the Gulf of America. The president instructed the Secretary of the Interior to implement the modifications within 30 days in an executive order signed on his first day back in office on January 20. According to Trump's order, the U.S. Geological Survey, which is part of the Department of the Interior, must update the federal Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) to reflect the new names. Requests for comment on Monday were not immediately answered by survey spokespeople. Former North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum, Trump's nomination for interior secretary, was questioned during a confirmation hearing on J...

Two former USAID officials, one current agency official, and one source directly familiar with the decision told NBC News that more than fifty civil career servants and foreign service officers at the U.S. Agency for International Development were placed on administrative leave Monday afternoon, effective immediately. According to two former USAID officials and one current official, the operation targeted senior attorneys in particular, as well as senior leadership in bureaus around the agency. Late Monday afternoon, USAID staff were notified of the decision. According to the email that NBC News was able to receive from USAID Acting Administrator Jason Gray, "We have identified several actions within USAID that appear to be designed to circumvent the President's Executive Orders and the ma...

According to the Salt Lake County sheriff, DNA evidence helped lead to an arrest in Utah in a deadly stabbing that occurred in 2005 and remained unexplained for over two decades. According to the sheriff's office on Friday, Mark Munoz, 53, was arrested Thursday on a murder charge in connection with the August 6, 2005, stabbing death of Jason Royter at his Magna home. According to sheriff's detective Ben Pendern, the case broke when Munoz, who is characterized as homeless and frequently moves, was charged with a crime in another state and had a DNA sample submitted into an index system. At a press conference, Sheriff Rosie Rivera stated that this family has persevered despite the toll that these kind of incidents take on families. "We also don't give up," she remarked. According to authori...

Washington President Donald Trump's chief prosecutor for Washington, D.C., announced Monday that he is starting a special study to examine how the Justice Department handled a federal charge against many of the 1,500 offenders who were pardoned by the president last week. Following Trump's inauguration, Ed Martin, who took over as acting head of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia, announced that he was assigning two officials to examine the use of an obstruction of justice charge that the Supreme Court found had been applied too broadly against certain defendants on January 6. Martin's office pushed to dismiss prosecutions against violent rioters who attacked police officers on January 6 and abolished the Justice Department's Capitol Siege Section. Following Trump's ...