Some beloved longtime “Saturday Night Live” cast members won’t be returning for Season 51, including eight-season veteran Heidi Gardner. “SNL” creator Lorne Michaels told Puck he’d shake things up ahead of the next season of the iconic comedy sketch series. Cast members Devon Walker, Michael Longfellow and Emil Wakim, as well as writer Celeste Yim, have also announced they’re leaving …
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Federal authorities plan to surge agents to Chicago starting next week to scale up operations to arrest unauthorized immigrants, two federal law enforcement officials told NBC News on Thursday. The plans involve Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Border Patrol and other federal agencies, the officials said. Chicago, a Democratic-run city, has policies that keep local police from asking about immigration …
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Vice President JD Vance said Thursday that it’s time to start asking tough questions about what’s at the heart of mass shootings and appeared to connect the violence to what he called a “mental health crisis.” “We really do have, I think, a mental health crisis in the United States of America. We take way more psychiatric medication than any …
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Rep. Barry Moore, R-Ala., exited a town hall in his home district through the back door Wednesday night after he faced relentless heckling in Baldwin County. Moore made the hasty departure after he responded to what a staffer announced would be the last question on the topic of the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts — as seen in a roughly …
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Two people are dead after they contracted a flesh-eating bacterium eating raw oysters in Louisiana, a state health official said. The deaths were due to Vibrio vulnificus, a bacterium that is naturally occurring in warm coastal waters and more common between May and October. Vibrio bacteria can lead to illness when an open wound is exposed to coastal waters or …
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More than seven years before Robin Westman opened fire on a Catholic school as Mass was underway, killing two children and injuring 17 more worshippers, police were called to a townhouse in the Twin Cities suburb where she lived with her mother. The heavily redacted police report NBC News obtained from the police department in Eagan, Minnesota, is dated Jan. …
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Immigration agents arrested two Mexican contractors helping to tackle a wildfire in Olympic National Forest in Washington, a supervisor who oversees the crews said Thursday. It was one of the first times federal immigration agents have been known to enter a fire zone to carry out President Donald Trump’s mass deportation orders, veteran firefighters said. Two work crews, totaling 44 …
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A Tennessee federal judge on Thursday ordered new trials for three former Memphis police officers who were convicted of felony counts in the beating death of Tyre Nichols after a 2023 traffic stop. A federal jury in 2024 convicted Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley and Justin Smith on charges connected with the death of Nichols, who died after being pummeled by …
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It’s been nearly a month since immigration authorities detained Catalina “Xochitl” Santiago, a 28-year-old immigrant rights activist, community organizer and beneficiary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. According to her family and attorneys, Santiago has valid DACA status, making her one of the nearly 538,000 undocumented young adults brought to the U.S. as children who are currently …
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