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Bronny James says he can handle ‘amplified’ pressure of playing for Lakers with his famous father
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — Bronny James says the opportunity to play professionally alongside his famous father played no role in his decision to enter the NBA draft. Now that the 19-year-old son of LeBron James has been selected by the Los Angeles Lakers anyway, Bronny says he can still handle all the extra attention and pressure while the James family makes basketball history.
Their first jobs as new immigrants were at Subways. They never received checks, they say.
When Khadengra Subedi immigrated to the U.S., he said, the first job he was offered was at a Subway sandwich shop in San Francisco. Subedi, a Nepali father of two, needed to get on his feet, so he took it. In the nine months he worked there last year, he...
Bahamas authorities find phone of Chicago woman who went missing during yoga retreat
Authorities in the Bahamas on Tuesday said the search for a American woman who went missing during a yoga retreat is a top priority amid calls by friends and family for U.S. intervention. The Royal Bahamas Police Force said in a statement that it found the cellphone and other items...
Skydance and National Amusements near Paramount deal as special committee reviews terms
David Ellison’s Skydance has reached a preliminary deal with Shari Redstone’s National Amusements to merge with Paramount, according to two people familiar with the matter, resurrecting a deal which failed just weeks earlier. Controlling shareholder National Amusements has referred the deal to the Paramount special committee, according to...
Trump PAC paid the law firm representing indicted legal adviser Boris Epshteyn in Arizona, records show
New campaign finance records show that Donald Trump's political action committee paid the legal firm representing the former president's longtime adviser Boris Epshteyn ahead of his pending criminal trial in Arizona. The leadership PAC, Save America, made two payments of $40,000 and $10,000 on May 14 to the Phoenix-based law...
Michigan man pleads guilty to kidnapping store manager, stealing 123 guns, feds say
A Michigan man pleaded guilty to kidnapping a manager of a sporting goods store at gunpoint last year and then making off with more than 100 handguns, federal authorities said Tuesday. Darnell Bishop, 33, of Benton Harbor, also pleaded guilty to brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a...
Biden quips he 'almost fell asleep onstage' at debate
President Joe Biden acknowledged again Tuesday night that he underperformed at last week's debate while saying he “wasn’t very smart” for having traveled extensively in the weeks leading up to the event in Atlanta. “I decided to travel around the world a couple of times … shortly...
The seven people shot by a neighbor at their Nebraska home were Guatemalan immigrants
A Guatemalan family who was targeted by their neighbor in Nebraska told police that the man had tried to start a fight and “flipped them off” five weeks before he shot seven people at their home last weekend. The neighbor, Billy Booth, 74, was found dead of a...
Former Mississippi governor demands sources, sues reporters and editors for defamation
A former Mississippi governor, Phil Bryant, is suing the newspaper Mississippi Today, one of its reporters and others for defamation, saying the paper wrongly accused him of a crime. The case involves the newspaper's reporting about a fraud scandal for which it won a Pulitzer Prize. Bryant says he did nothing wrong. NBC News' Ken Dilanian reports.
What you eat at 40 may affect how healthy you are at 70
If you eat well now, you may live better later. A diet rich in fruits and vegetables, whole grains and unsaturated fats in midlife can improve the chances of good mental, physical and cognitive health decades later, a new report shows. A study presented at a major nutrition conference Tuesday...
Mystery deepens over Chicago woman missing in the Bahamas
A woman from Chicago has been missing in the Bahamas for almost two weeks after vanishing from a yoga retreat, and now her family and Chicago police are appealing to the public for help in finding 41-year-old Taylor Casey. NBC News' Maggie Vespa reports.
FDA approves new drug to treat Alzheimer's disease
The FDA approved Eli Lilly's drug Kisunla to treat early-stage Alzheimer's disease. Kisunla is only the second drug approved to treat the incurable disease. Medicare is expected to cover the $32,000 cost. NBC News' Anne Thompson reports.
'Big mo': Post-debate bump, legal wins help Trump build summer momentum
In presidential politics, momentum swings fast. In less than a week, Trump’s legal woes have been significantly minimized for now by the courts, his once daunting campaign cash deficit has all but disappeared, and a disastrous debate performance from President Joe Biden not only has Trump widening his lead in some public polling, but has Biden at odds with many in his own party who believe the 81-year-old president is not up to the task of running again.
Democrats fret while awaiting signs of how Biden will weather debate debacle
WASHINGTON — Democratic leaders are nervously waiting to see if a fresh round of polling shows that Joe Biden’s support has collapsed and he’s become a drag on congressional races before taking a unified stance on whether he should drop out of the race, interviews with lawmakers, strategists and donors show.
First Democratic lawmaker calls on Biden to drop out of race
Rep. Lloyd Doggett of Texas became the first Democrat in Congress to publicly call on President Biden to drop his reelection bid after his much-criticized debate performance. The White House defended the president as physically and mentally fit. NBC News' Kelly O'Donnell reports.
Record holiday and summer travel expected
Record number of travelers are hitting the roads and flying as the long holiday weekend approaches. The TSA says it finds weapons in people's bags and luggage every day at airport security checkpoints around the country. NBC News' Tom Costello reports.
The next steps Biden loyalists want to see: From the Politics Desk
Welcome to the online version of From the Politics Desk, an evening newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the campaign trail, the White House and Capitol Hill. In today’s edition, White House correspondent Mike Memoli lays out what President Joe Biden's...
Democrat Rep. Doggett on replacing Biden: "It was time for me to speak up"
Rep. Lloyd Doggett, a Democrat from Texas, tells Hallie Jackson that his constituents are "10-to-1" in favor of replacing President Biden on the ticket. He says "we need to have the strongest candidate possible in order to ensure the values that we hold for our democracy are not traded for an authoritarian strongman."
Boa constrictor gives birth to 14 baby snakes after living alone for nearly a decade
Ronaldo, a 6-foot Brazilian rainbow boa constrictor kept at a school in England, was thought to be male — until the snake gave birth to 14 babies last month. The boa had not had contact with another snake for nearly a decade, so she appears to have undergone a natural process of asexual reproduction called parthenogenesis. The term is derived from the Greek words for “virgin birth.”
She won a Pulitzer for exposing how the nation's poorest state spent federal welfare money. Now she might go to jail.
When Anna Wolfe won the Pulitzer Prize for her dogged reporting on Mississippi’s welfare fraud scandal, she had no inkling she was soon going to have to contend with the possibility of going to jail. But just over a year after she secured journalism’s top award for exposing how...
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