The New York Blood Center, one of the country’s largest nonprofit blood donation and distribution centers, has canceled appointments and blood drives after a cyberattack. In a statement posted to its website Wednesday, the blood center said hackers attacked it with ransomware Sunday, significantly reducing its operations. The group is …
Read More »Crash investigators looking at altitude, communication and staffing before helicopter collision with plane
How an Army Black Hawk helicopter collided into an American Airlines jetliner in a deadly crash over the Potomac River Wednesday night is still unknown, but questions are emerging, including the altitude of the military helicopter. Investigators are still pulling evidence from the Potomac and looking at everything from newly pulled flight …
Read More »Democratic National Committee prepares to elect a new party chair
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Democrats will take their first tangible step this weekend to drag themselves forward from their 2024 election loss: electing the next chair of the Democratic National Committee. The party’s committee members will meet Saturday to vote on a new slate of officers, chief among them the …
Read More »Defense agency bans Black History Month and other ‘special observances’
The Defense Intelligence Agency has ordered a pause of all activities and events related to Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Black History Month, Juneteenth, LGBTQ Pride Month, Holocaust Remembrance Day and other “special observances” to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order, according to a memo obtained by NBC News. …
Read More »Implemented or not, Trump’s 25% tariff threat is challenging the auto industry
DETROIT — As President Donald Trump’s threat to impose 25% tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico as soon as Saturday looms, the global automotive industry is collectively holding its breath. For months, automakers have been taking a “wait-and-see” approach to the Trump administration’s potential tariffs. Trump promised to impose duties upon his inauguration this month, …
Read More »Federal judge blocks Trump administration from transferring transgender inmate
BOSTON — A U.S. judge has temporarily blocked federal prison officials from transferring a transgender woman to a men’s facility and denying her access to gender-affirming care in accordance with an executive order issued by President Donald Trump, her lawyers said on Thursday. The temporary restraining order was issued by …
Read More »USAID labor director pushed out after fighting back against removal of career leadership
An order sidelining almost 60 senior career leaders at the U.S. Agency for International Development was temporarily rescinded Thursday by one of the few remaining senior career civil servants with the authority to do so, two current and two former USAID employees told NBC News. Hours later, the same career …
Read More »Questions mount surrounding deadly midair plan collision in DC
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Read More »Dwyane Wade reveals he was diagnosed with cancer at 41
Dwyane Wade is recalling how a routine checkup turned into a life-changing cancer diagnosis that forced him to confront his own mortality and ultimately led to the removal of 40% of his kidney. The 43-year-old basketball player opened up about his health ordeal on the Jan. 30 episode of his podcast, …
Read More »What we know about some of the D.C. plane crash victims after American Airlines jet and Black Hawk collision
“When you lose coaches like this, you lose the future of the sport, as well,” Zeghibe told reporters. Another well-known Russian figure skater, Inna Volyanskaya, was also among the dead, her former husband, Ross Lansel, told NBC Washington. Before becoming a skating coach in 2002 in Virginia, she wowed audiences …
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