Andrew Bailey, who became “co-deputy director” of the FBI last September, is stepping aside, two people familiar with the matter told NBC News.
Another top FBI official is leaving the bureau after just a year on the job.
Andrew Bailey, who joined the FBI in the newly created position of “co-deputy director” in September 2025 to work alongside then-Deputy Director Dan Bongino, is stepping aside, two people familiar with the matter tell NBC News.
An email sent internally at the FBI stated that Bailey was leaving for family reasons, the two people familiar with the matter told NBC News.
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Trump will announce a plan for a $15 billion steel mill in Iowa today.
Mesabi Metallics is building the plant with the aim of starting production by 2030, a White House official said. The facility is expected to produce 10 million tons of steel a year and create as many as 1,750 permanent jobs in the state, the official said.
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China and the United States have agreed to cut tariffs imposed on $60 billion worth of goods imported from each other, on an array of products ranging from U.S. corn to cosmetics, and from Chinese household appliances to toys.
Under the U.S.-China Board of Trade, both countries have each recommended $30 billion of trade in non-sensitive goods for more favourable tariff treatment, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said in a statement yesterday.
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Trump rejected a new ceasefire proposal from Iran that would’ve reopened the Strait of Hormuz, leaving the next steps in the conflict uncertain as the war enters its eighth month. NBC’s Garrett Haake reports for “TODAY.”
WASHINGTON — Eight U.S. Marines were injured two weeks ago when an Iranian cruise missile attacked the ship they were operating on in the Strait of Hormuz, according to three U.S. officials. The Marines were not seriously injured, but they sustained smoke inhalation and possibly traumatic brain injuries, as they had symptoms of concussions, such as headaches, the officials said.
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A farmer’s predawn alert about a group of hooded and masked men appears to have sparked a massive security operation around a British base the U.S. Air Force used to facilitate strikes on Iran.
“When they saw me, they ran ahead of me — some into the field and some towards the neighboring village,” the farmer, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the BBC News today. “I then realized that something highly unusual was taking place.”
An image circulating on social media shows handcuffed suspects yesterday near RAF Fairford air base. via X
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Amid warnings that artificial intelligence could soon wipe out humanity, some lawmakers are not confident that Congress has the expertise or ability to regulate AI.
“A lot of them can’t spell it,” Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., quipped. “They just don’t have the experience.”
Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., was equally skeptical. “They still don’t know how to get on the internet,” let alone understand AI, he said.
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British police arrested several men on suspicion of terrorism and explosives offenses yesterday and evacuated homes near an air base that the U.S. Air Force had been using to facilitate strikes on Iran.
A major incident was declared, with a massive emergency presence seen around RAF Fairford, which is about 90 minutes outside London, close to the village of Whelford in western England.
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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said his country is prepared to resume fighting with the United States but has not yet abandoned diplomacy after Trump publicly rejected a proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
“We are fully prepared for the time for the war to be resumed, and I repeat, we stand firm in the face of any new aggression, even if it comes to a doomsday war,” Araghchi told NBC News’ “Meet the Press” yesterday, when asked about a Wall Street Journal report that Trump could seek to resume bombing after the U.S. midterm elections. “At the same time, we stand ready for diplomacy. It is up to President Trump to choose.”
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Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates called on the U.S. to be a leader in regulating the growth of artificial intelligence but warned that getting countries to agree on a global framework could be “more difficult” than Cold War-era negotiations to limit nuclear weapons.
“This is more difficult than that was,” Gates told NBC News’ “Meet the Press” during a wide-ranging discussion on AI that aired yesterday.
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The Trump administration put out a new ad this weekend as part of its “PSA” campaign, this time showing the president walking down a hallway as he asks people to join him in his fight to “expel the warmongers from our government.”
The ad — which at the end says it was “Paid for by the U.S. government” — is nearly identical to an ad put out by Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign.
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