U.S. & World

The Biden administration is finalizing details of a new executive action that would let the president temporarily shut the southern border to migrants if necessary, and it is in talks with Mexican leaders to get their crucial buy-in before proceeding, according to multiple officials familiar with the negotiations.

President Joe Biden welcomed the Kansas City Chiefs to the White House on Friday, lauding the repeat Super Bowl champs for their sportsmanship on and off the field.

Donald Trump became the first U.S. president, current or former, to be convicted of a criminal offense. The unprecedented conviction raises questions about what’s next for the man in line to become the Republican Party’s nominee for president in 2024.

Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton, who took female victims to his pig farm during a crime spree near Vancouver in the late 1990s and early 2000s, has died after being assaulted in prison.

After the Kansas City Chiefs gifted Joe Biden a team helmet, there were calls for the president to put it on. And he obliged.

Former First Lady Michelle Obama’s mother, Marian Robinson, has died, according to a family statement shared with NBC News. Robinson was 86 years old.

The 34 felony guilty verdicts returned against Donald Trump spurred a wave of violent rhetoric aimed at the prosecutors, the judge and the jurors who unanimously agreed there was no reasonable doubt that Trump falsified business records.

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The former president made a reference to two witnesses in the case during his address to reporters Friday, something Judge Juan Merchan had barred him from doing.

Federal health regulators are set to review the first request to approve the mind-altering club drug MDMA as a treatment for PTSD. The Food and Drug Administration posted its review of the drug on Friday, raising questions about its effectiveness and potential risks, including heart problems.

A North Carolina aquarium said in February that a stingray became pregnant with no male companion in its tank and now says the fish has a rare reproductive disease. Thursday’s statement from the Aquarium and Shark Lab in Hendersonville did not say what the disease is.

The University of Virginia will pay $9 million in a settlement related to a 2022 campus shooting that killed three football players.

Biden for months stridently avoided involvement in Trump’s legal dramas.