A federal appeals court said the Trump administration must fully fund food aid benefits for 42 million low-income Americans this month.
Trump’s attorneys sent a letter to the British Broadcasting Corp. over the weekend demanding a retraction and threatening to seek $1 billion in damages from the broadcaster.
The move comes amid a growing controversy over edits to the president’s infamous Jan. 6 ellipse speech in a documentary that aired on the BBC. Two top BBC executives have already resigned.
The White House referred NBC News’ request for comment to an outside legal team.
“The BBC defamed President Trump by intentionally and deceitfully editing its documentary in order to try and interfere in the Presidential Election,” a spokesman for the president’s outside legal team told NBC News. “President Trump will continue to hold accountable those who traffic in lies, deception, and fake news.”
A BBC spokesperson told NBC News, “We will review the letter and respond directly in due course.”
Critics have framed the BBC’s edits of Trump’s Jan. 6 speech as misleading and criticized the decision to cut a portion of the president’s speech when he told supporters to protest peacefully.
BBC Director General Tim Davie and news CEO Deborah Turness left the company.
Turness said in a letter to staff members that she was stepping down because “leaders need to be fully accountable.”
“While mistakes have been made, I want to be absolutely clear recent allegations that BBC News is institutionally biased are wrong,” Turness said.
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Israel returned the remains of 15 Palestinians to Gaza today in the latest step forward for a U.S.-brokered ceasefire, as a top White House envoy met with Israeli leaders to discuss the next stages of the fragile agreement.
Israel returned the bodies after Palestinian militants released the remains of a hostage yesterday. With the latest exchange, only four bodies of hostages remained in Gaza.
As the first stage of the agreement reached its waning days, Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner met today with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, according to a photo released by the premier’s office.
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Taking up a contentious election issue with nationwide implications, the Supreme Court this morning agreed to consider whether federal law bars states from counting mail-in ballots that are received after Election Day.
The case pits Republican-led Mississippi, defending its election law that allows for mail-in ballots received after Election Day to be counted, against the Republican National Committee and the state’s own Republican Party. The Libertarian Party of Mississippi also joined the challenge in opposing the law.
If the RNC’s argument were applied nationwide, it would upend election law in many states, which count ballots that come in after an election as long as they were postmarked on time. Many of those laws were designed to ensure that overseas military members who submit ballots from afar have their votes counted.
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The Supreme Court this morning turned away a long-shot attempt to overturn the landmark 2015 ruling that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
Without comment, the justices rejected an appeal brought by Kim Davis, a former county clerk in Kentucky who was sued in 2015 for refusing to issue marriage licenses because of her opposition to same-sex marriage based on her religious beliefs.
Her latest appeal in the case, brought a decade later, had attracted considerable attention amid fears that the court could overturn the 2015 same-sex marriage decision, Obergefell v. Hodges, in the aftermath of the 2022 ruling that overturned the landmark abortion rights decision, Roe v. Wade.
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Ghislaine Maxwell, the co-conspirator of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, is in the process of seeking a commutation of her 20-year prison sentence from President Donald Trump, a whistleblower has told House Democrats.
The whistleblower came forward with the information to Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee and alleges Maxwell is getting preferential treatment in prison.
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Trump became the first sitting president to attend a regular-season NFL game since Jimmy Carter in 1978, appearing yesterday at the Detroit Lions and Washington Commanders matchup.
In the third quarter, Trump appeared on the Fox broadcast, answering questions about his time as a football player at New York Military Academy, opining on quarterbacks and more.
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The Supreme Court will hear arguments today on whether a devout Rastafarian can bring a damages claim against Louisiana prison officials who cut his dreadlocks in violation of his religious rights.
The court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, is often solicitous toward religious claims, although the bulk of recent cases have involved cases brought by conservative Christians.
Prior to the 2020 incident at the Raymond Laborde Correctional Center, Damon Landor had not cut his hair for almost 20 years, following a practice known as “the Nazarite vow.”
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A group of Senate Democrats is pushing for an investigation into the Trump administration’s use of federal agency websites and emails to post partisan messages blaming Democrats for the government shutdown.
In a letter obtained by NBC News, Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and other Democrats are asking the Government Accountability Office to open a probe into whether the political messages violated federal appropriations laws.
The lawmakers point specifically to a rule that prohibits the executive branch from using funds for “purely partisan” purposes. They are asking for more information from the GAO to see if several agencies violated laws that pertain to ethics and partisan political activity.
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The Oval Office is a long way from Abu Ghraib.
When he’s greeted by Trump today, Ahmad al-Sharaa will have completed his journey from jihadist leader to head of state receiving a warm White House welcome.
Since toppling the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, Syria‘s interim leader has spent the past year transforming his global image while tackling deep divisions at home.
Now, al-Sharaa, who has thrown off his nom de guerre Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, will make history as the first Syrian president to visit the White House.
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A federal appeals court late yesterday allowed a judge’s order to stand that directs the Trump administration to fully fund this month’s food aid benefits for 42 million low-income Americans during the ongoing government shutdown.
The Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined to halt Thursday’s decision by a Rhode Island judge requiring the U.S. Agriculture Department to spend $4 billion set aside for other purposes to ensure Americans receive full Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits.
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Trump has pardoned Rudy Giuliani and scores of others accused of involvement in the effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election, the president’s pardon attorney said late last night.
Ed Martin posted a proclamation on X, which says Giuliani and scores of others will be pardoned for alleged activities linked to the 2020 election. Martin was replying to his own X message from May in which he said “No MAGA left behind.”
Trump has yet to comment publicly. NBC News has asked the White House for comment.
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Senators struck an agreement Sunday, projecting confidence that it will be sufficient to end the lengthy U.S. government shutdown, three sources with direct knowledge of the details told NBC News.
The agreement, reached by a group of Democrats who teamed up with Republicans, cleared the first hurdle on a vote of 60-40 to advance in a late-night Senate vote. If it’s approved, it would then need to pass the House and gain Trump’s signature to become law and reopen the government.
Even if it has enough support to clear those hurdles, the process is expected to take days.
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