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White House East Wing Set for Demolition and Rebuild

By Gabe Gutierrez, Monica Alba, Peter Alexander and Dareh Gregorian The entire East Wing of the White House will be demolished “within days,” according to two Trump administration officials. The demolition is a significant expansion of the ballroom construction project from what President Donald Trump said this summer. “It won’t interfere with the current building,” Trump said on July 31. “It’ll be near it, but not touching it, and pays total respect to the existing building, which I’m the biggest fan of.” The New York Times first reported the extent of the demolition. A White House official told NBC News the “entirety” of the East Wing would eventually be

Arizona AG Sues Speaker Johnson Over Grijalva Swearing-In

By Scott Wong and Kyle Stewart  Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes on Tuesday filed a lawsuit to try to force House Speaker Mike Johnson to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva, the Arizona Democrat who won her late father’s seat in a special election nearly one month ago. Johnson, R-La., has said he will seat Grijalva once Senate Democrats agree to reopen the government. But the two parties haven’t been talking for weeks, and there is no indication when the shutdown might end. The lawsuit, which Mayes threatened in a letter to Johnson last week, argues that the speaker’s delay is depriving the 813,000 residents living in

Trump Seeks $230M From DOJ Over Past Investigations

By Dan Mangan President Donald Trump has demanded that the Department of Justice pay him a whopping $230 million in compensation for its criminal investigations of him dating to before his first term in the White House and afterward, The New York Times reported Tuesday. The Times noted that any potential settlement might have to be approved by federal officials whom he has appointed during his second term. One of them, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, represented Trump as a defense attorney in criminal cases before he returned to the White House in early January. “As far as all of the litigation … yeah, they probably owe me a lot

Trump Begins White House East Wing Demolition Project

By Monica Alba and Raquel Coronell Uribe Construction crews Monday started demolishing part of the East Wing of the White House as part of President Donald Trump’s project to build a new ballroom, according to an administration official. Trump said in July that the project “won’t interfere with the current building.” “It’ll be near it, but not touching it, and pays total respect to the existing building, which I’m the biggest fan of,” Trump said at the time. The White House did not immediately respond to questions from NBC News about how much of the structure it plans to demolish and why it’s

Stacy Davis Gates Elected Leader of Illinois Teachers Union

By Natasha Korecki Shifting in her chair as she sits at a long conference room table inside the Chicago Teachers Union offices, Stacy Davis Gates lets it sink in. The Chicago Teachers Union president, having just spoken at length about the struggles of Black residents in Chicago neighborhoods, justice as a foundational classroom principle and the triumph of helping a former teacher get elected mayor, finally stops. “Look at me. Like, both my grandmothers: sharecroppers. Literally, Sunflower County Mississippi. Eudora, Arkansas — and I get to lead the largest union in the Illinois AFL-CIO. They have over 100,000 members,” the 48-year-old

Atlanta Police Stop Armed Man, Avert Airport Tragedy

By Tim Stelloh and Tangni Noriega Authorities in Atlanta said they averted a tragedy Monday after a man’s family told police that he was headed to the city’s airport to “shoot it up.” Police found an AR-15 assault rifle with 27 rounds of ammunition in the man’s truck, which was parked outside Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Police Chief Darin Schierbaum said. “There were 27 rounds that could have been fired from this weapon inside the airport,” Schierbaum told reporters. Billy Cagle, 49, was arrested on suspicion of making terroristic threats, criminal attempt to commit aggravated assault and firearms charges, police said. It wasn’t

Court Lets Trump Deploy National Guard Troops in Oregon

By Dareh Gregorian and Gary Grumbach A federal appeals court ruling Monday will allow the Trump administration to send National Guard troops into Oregon against the state’s wishes, hitting pause on a lower court’s order that had barred the deployment. “After considering the record at this preliminary stage, we conclude that it is likely that the President lawfully exercised his statutory authority,” the panel of 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judges wrote in a 2-1 ruling. Justice Department attorneys had argued in a court filing that U.S. District Judge Karin J. Immergut’s ruling temporarily halting the deployment “improperly impinges on the Commander in Chief’s supervision of military operations,

Kamala Harris Rallies Democrats Amid Government Shutdown

By Bill Barrow As Democrats dig in for a lengthening government shutdown, former Vice President Kamala Harris is cheering them on as she travels the country touting her presidential campaign memoir amid speculation about another White House run. The Democratic 2024 nominee told The Associated Press in an interview Friday that she remains in contact with Democrats on Capitol Hill, encouraging them to maintain their demands that President Donald Trump and the Republican congressional majority address looming spikes in Affordable Care Act health insurance premiums. “The Republicans control the House. They control the Senate. They control the White House. They are in charge,

‘No Kings’ Protests Erupt Nationwide Against Trump Rule

By  Mike Pesoli, Matt Brown And Gary Fields  Large crowds of protesters marched and rallied in cities across the U.S. Saturday for “ No Kings ” demonstrations decrying what participants see as the government’s swift drift into authoritarianism under President Donald Trump. People carrying signs with slogans such as “Nothing is more patriotic than protesting” or “Resist Fascism” packed into New York City’s Times Square and rallied by the thousands in parks in Boston, Atlanta and Chicago. Demonstrators marched through Washington and downtown Los Angeles and picketed outside capitols in several Republican-led states, a courthouse in Billings, Montana, and at hundreds of smaller

AWS Outage Disrupts Major Sites, Games & Services

By Patrick Smith A major cloud computing service went offline early Monday, causing problems for thousands of websites and services including leading retailers, publishers and games. Amazon Web Services first reported a problem at 12:11 a.m. PT (3:11 a.m. ET) and said it was dealing with an “operational issue” affecting 14 different services in its center in northern Virginia. “We can confirm increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS Services in the US-EAST-1 Region,” the AWS health dashboard said. At 5:27 a.m. ET the dashboard said there were “significant signs of recovery” with most attempts to reach websites and services succeeding, despite

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