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The FDA has approved a pill version of the GLP-1 weight loss drug Wegovy from Novo Nordisk. The Department of Health and Human Services could be setting a new vaccine schedule. And ACA subsidies are set to expire at the end of the year. We speak with NBC News Medical Contributor Dr. Natalie Azar about the new developments and why the rising cost of health care is creating anxiety among nearly half...

Lawmakers say they’re taking action after the Justice Department failed to release all the docs related to Jeffrey Epstein by Friday’s deadline – and much was blacked out in what was released. Then, Epstein survivor Sharlene Rochard explains what the redactions and lack of transparency mean for those still seeking justice and accountability. Plus, NBC News is reporting exclusively on a growing rif...

A five-day search for the Brown University shooting suspect has ended with 48-year-old Claudio Manuel Neves Valente found dead in a New Hampshire storage facility from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. Authorities say the suspect is also connected to the fatal shooting of an MIT professor this week – a connection they made after a Reddit user posted a crucial clue. NBC News National Law En...

Nearly a year into his second term, President Donald Trump took to prime time from the White House to make his case to the country. NBC News Senior White House Correspondent Garrett Haake joins us to separate fact from fiction and unpack what the speech says about the political moment, as the president’s approval ratings continue to dip. Then, social media companies are under growing pressure over...

Nick Reiner, son of acclaimed director Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, was arraigned in Los Angeles Superior Court. He’s charged with two counts of first-degree murder in his parent’s deaths. NBC News correspondent Gadi Schwartz has the latest on the Hollywood tragedy. And President Trump is expected to sign an executive order this week fast-tracking the reclassification of marijuana. NBC Ne...

The jobs report from October and November that was on ice because of the government shutdown shows major losses in federal jobs in October, but a small upward tick in November. The Trump administration is touting private-sector wage growth. NBC News Senior Business Correspondent Christine Romans joins us to make sense of the numbers. Then, Senior Investigative Producer Dan Slepian brings us an NBC...

On the pod today, three tragedies that ended in multiple lives lost over the weekend. Our national law enforcement and intelligence correspondent Tom Winter gives us the latest on the manhunt in Rhode Island, in the search for the person who opened fire at Brown University, killing two students and wounding nine people, and the mass shooting by a father and son on Bondi Beach in Australia that lef...

On today’s show: After senators failed to pass two partisan health care bills, lawmakers in the House are trying to get to a bipartisan deal before the enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies expire at the end of the year, leaving millions of Americans facing soaring insurance premiums. Plus: House Democrats have released a new set of pictures from the Epstein files, part of a 95,000 document trove...

The U.S. has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, a move President Donald Trump is calling “the largest one ever seized.” The White House says the ship is a “sanctioned shadow” vessel tied to the Iranian military and that the administration plans to take possession of the oil on board. Press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the tanker is moving through a federal forfeiture process, whic...

Up first: The Federal Reserve is closing out 2025 with a quarter-point rate cut — its third this year. And investors were glued to this one. Policymakers headed into today’s meeting unusually divided: focus on a softening job market, or keep the inflation pressure? Adding to the drama, the Fed has been operating in a partial data blackout due to the lingering fallout from the federal shutdown. NBC...

Up first, the Trump economy. President Trump is back on the road today, heading to Pennsylvania for what the White House is calling a “campaign-style economic event.” He’s expected to tout his record, sell his vision and make the case that his policies are fueling a stronger economy. NBC News senior White House correspondent Garrett Haake, who is traveling with the president, joins host Yasmin Vos...

It’s a significant test of presidential power at the Supreme Court. Today, the justices are weighing whether President Donald Trump can fire a member of the Federal Trade Commission, an agency Congress intentionally shielded from political influence to protect its consumer-protection and antitrust mission. The case comes as Trump’s administration moves to dramatically reshape the federal workforce...

It’s a Hollywood shake-up for the ages. Netflix’s merger with Warner Bros. Discovery is officially a go. The streamer is spending $82.7 billion to acquire Warner Bros.’ massive movie, TV and streaming portfolio, one of the largest entertainment mergers in modern history. The deal pairs Netflix’s disruptor DNA with a 102-year-old Hollywood heavyweight, blazing a trail for how a streaming pioneer bl...

Federal immigration officers are conducting raids across Minnesota’s Twin Cities, home to one of the nation’s largest Somali communities, just days after President Trump verbally attacked immigrants from the country in eastern Africa. The administration has said the ICE raids aren’t targeting Somalis, but community members tell NBC News it sure feels that way. NBC News senior homeland security cor...

A potential warning sign for Republicans in Tennessee. Matt Van Epps, the party's nominee, won the special election in the 7th District and thanked President Trump for a boost. Both parties poured money into the race, but Van Epps' single-digit margin of victory is a far cry from Trump’s 22-point win there in 2024. So, what does the result signal nationally? Chief Data Analyst Steve Kornacki joins...

President Trump met with his Cabinet this morning as questions continue to intensify over a U.S. strike on a shipping boat allegedly carrying drugs in the Caribbean. The White House now confirms that in a September anti-smuggling operation, the military launched a second strike that killed survivors of the first attack, a move some lawmakers and legal experts say could be a war crime. Press secret...

Luigi Mangione is back in court today for a pivotal pretrial hearing in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. The 27-year-old has pleaded not guilty to nine state counts and four federal charges, the latter carrying the possibility of the death penalty. His defense team is now fighting to exclude key evidence, a process that could take more than a week. NBC News legal analyst Misty M...

President Trump’s base may agree on illegal immigration, but legal immigration is tearing open new fault lines — and at the center are H-1B visas. Months after cracking down with costly new restrictions, the president now appears to be reversing course, jolting his party and escalating his feud with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Georgia Republican who announced this week that she’ll resign her...

We’re starting with a political firestorm at the Pentagon. Defense officials have launched a misconduct investigation into Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly over a video he and other former service members recorded, urging people in the military and intelligence community not to carry out illegal orders from the Trump administration. Kelly, a retired Navy pilot, appears alongside several Democrats with n...

A federal judge has thrown out the criminal cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, a sweeping setback for what critics have described as an effort by the Trump administration to use the justice system for political payback. Legal affairs reporter Gary Grumbach joins host Yasmin Vossoughian to break down one of the sharpest judicial rebukes yet of...

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is heading to Washington, D.C., on Friday for a face-to-face with President Donald Trump, an unlikely matchup after months of trading insults. NBC News reporter Allan Smith joins host Yasmin Vossoughian to break down what’s at stake and whether this meeting is about policy or pure political theater. And we’re digging into the latest wellness whisper: microd...

We’re breaking down the September jobs report: The U.S. added 119,000 jobs, stronger than expected and a sign the economy was still hiring steadily before the government shutdown. But a closer look from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows a more uneven picture, with a labor market starting to wobble amid high-profile layoffs at major companies. Wall Street? Pure chaos. Stocks surged, plunged and...

The Trump administration is quietly moving to carve up the U.S. Education Department, shifting key responsibilities to agencies like Labor and State in a renewed push toward its long-standing goal of dismantling the department altogether. It’s a striki ng look at how far the administration is willing to go to bypass Congress to make it happen. Host Yasmin Vossoughian is joined by Erica Meltzer, na...

The House votes on a bill that would force the Justice Department to release all its records on Jeffrey Epstein. It’s expected to pass, a major win for the bipartisan group pushing for transparency. So, what would this bill require? And what could surface in any new document dumps? NBC News National Law Enforcement & Intelligence Correspondent Tom Winter joins host Yasmin Vossoughian to discuss hi...

President Trump is now calling for the full release of the long-sealed Jeffrey Epstein documents, saying, “We have nothing to hide,” and urging Congress to make the files public. It’s a sharp reversal from years of efforts to keep parts of the record under wraps. So, why now? NBC News Now’s Hallie Jackson joins host Laura Jarrett to break it all down. And we’re in Charlotte, North Carolina, where...