LONDON — Instagram users under 16 won’t be able to livestream or unblur nudity in direct messages they’ve received without parental approval, owner Meta Platforms said Tuesday as it widened its safety measures for teenagers. The social media company also said it was extending safeguards for users under 18 to Facebook and Messenger. Meta launched…
The Department of Homeland Security appeared on Friday to be preparing to send a new group of Venezuelan men from the U.S. to El Salvador and its notorious CECOT prison, even as lawyers from the American Civil Liberties union scrambled in the courts to stop the administration from moving forward. On Friday afternoon, a charter…
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The nominee for NASA’s top job, billionaire spacewalker Jared Isaacman, outlined his vision for space exploration on Wednesday that prioritizes sending astronauts to Mars. President Donald Trump nominated Isaacman to become NASA’s 15th administrator late last year. If confirmed, the tech entrepreneur would become the youngest person to lead the space…
Welcome to the online version of From the Politics Desk, an evening newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the White House, Capitol Hill and the campaign trail. In today’s edition, Sahil Kapur explores how Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s deportation has exposed a political rift among Democrats. Plus, Kristen Welker examines…
Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., revealed new details about his meeting this week with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a man who the Trump administration says was mistakenly deported last month. Van Hollen met with Abrego Garcia on Thursday after his previous efforts to meet with him were denied by Salvadoran officials. The Maryland senator held a…
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Soil and rocks returned from the moon’s mysterious far side suggest it may be drier than the side constantly facing Earth, Chinese scientists reported Wednesday. But they cautioned more samples are needed for a clearer picture. A better understanding of the abundance of water in the lunar mantle can help explain…
For international tourists, traveling to the United States is looking less inviting these days. The combination of President Donald Trump’s trade policies and hostile rhetoric toward much of the rest of the world are creating a chill in international travel to the U.S. That shift might have a significant economic impact, with one Wall Street…
WASHINGTON — Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date – a diagram of the wiring connecting 84,000 neurons as they fire off messages. Using a piece of that mouse’s brain about the size of a poppy seed, the researchers identified those…
WASHINGTON — A controversial deportation case has opened up a rift within the Democratic Party over how aggressively to go after President Donald Trump on an issue that has been one of his biggest political strengths. Some members of the party are leaning heavily into Maryland resident Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s deportation to El Salvador without…
A federal judge on Friday denied Sean “Diddy” Combs’ bid to delay his sex trafficking trial by two months. Combs’ attorneys had asked U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian in a letter Wednesday for a two-month adjournment to better prepare a defense. Marc Agnifilo, one of Combs’ attorneys, had suggested at a hearing Monday that they would seek…
