U.S. & World

Yaquelin Dominguez-Nieves collected the money from the migrants’ families in the U.S., but the boat bringing them from Cuba to Florida sank.  

The Trump administration is stepping up its timeline for terminating federal employees in diversity, equity and inclusion roles, NBC News has learned.

Less than a week into his presidency, the Trump administration is touting deportation efforts and has published new rules making it easier to remove people.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released some new flu data to the public on Friday, despite the Trump administration’s halt of nearly all scientific communication coming from federal health agencies.

President Donald Trump stepped back into the presidency this week moving quickly to set a new agenda, but from his inaugural address continuing through a flurry of executive actions, press conferences and interviews Trump relied on an array of false and misleading information to support his case.

The Department of the Interior says they’re moving quickly to implement President Donald Trump’s executive order to rename Mount Denali and the Gulf of Mexico.

The Mexican government has criticized President Donald Trump’s unilateral immigration actions, and the landing would have required Mexico’s assistance.

An attempt to authorize the Catholic school was challenged as a violation of the First Amendment, which limits government involvement in religion.

The State Department has frozen new funding for almost all U.S. aid programs worldwide, making exceptions to allow humanitarian food programs and military aid to Israel and Egypt to continue.

The Senate confirmed Pete Hegseth as the nation’s defense secretary Friday in a dramatic late-night vote, swatting back questions about his qualifications to lead the Pentagon amid allegations of heavy drinking and aggressive behavior toward women.

Here’s what student loan borrowers struggling to pay their bills need to know about the restart of collections.

A Holocaust survivor who lived through four concentration camps as a young boy will return to Auschwitz to mark 80 years since the liberation of one of the Nazi’s most notorious concentration camps.

Prosecutors say they won’t charge rocker Marilyn Manson after a years-long investigation into sexual assault and domestic violence allegations.