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The inspector general at the U.S. Agency for International Development was fired Tuesday, a day after his office released a report detailing the negative impact of the Trump administration’s dramatic downsizing of the agency, according to a letter obtained by NBC News. Paul Martin, who had been USAID’s inspector general …

Three of America’s top milk-producing states aren’t a part of federal surveillance testing for bird flu even as a new variant is turning up in dairy cattle, in what some public health experts say is a troubling gap in the national effort to identify and detect the spread of the …

MAYVILLE, N.Y. — Salman Rushdie described in graphic detail Tuesday about the frenzied moments in 2022 when a masked man rushed at him on a stage in western New York and repeatedly slashed him with a knife, leaving him with terrible injuries and fearful he would die. Rushdie took the …

Bring a Trailer, the online classic car marketplace, sold a record $1.5 billion worth of cars last year despite a continued slump in classic car prices, according to its CEO. The company held 45,000 auctions in 2024 split between cars, trucks, motorcycles, memorabilia and parts, and had more than 1.3 …

An American school teacher held by Russia for 3 1/2 years will be released and allowed to come home, the White House said on Tuesday. Marc Fogel had been sentenced to 14 years in prison by Russia and was considered “wrongfully detained” by the United States. “By tonight, Marc Fogel …

WASHINGTON — A senior official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency instructed subordinates to freeze funding for a wide array of grant programs Monday, just hours after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration — for the second time — to stop such pauses. In an email with the subject …

President Donald Trump’s push to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development and remake the federal workforce is causing whiplash for those who recently entered it hoping for long, stable careers in public service. Krisna Patel, 23, said she filed for unemployment insurance last week after getting laid off …

Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of President Donald Trump, pleaded guilty Tuesday on a fraud charge in a case alleging he helped defraud donors who were giving money to build a wall at the southern U.S. border. In exchange for the guilty plea, he agreed to a conditional discharge and waived …

The race is on to try to stop vital information from being rewritten or scrubbed from U.S. government websites, with researchers warning that the loss of key data could create risks for the environment and marginalized communities. Thousands of U.S. government web pages are being altered or deleted following a …

Military families protesting the Defense Department’s anti-DEI push heckled Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on his arrival at United States European Command headquarters in Germany on Tuesday. On a visit to the U.S. military’s key European military hub in Stuttgart, Hegseth was booed by around two dozen people who live …