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As the war with Iran stretches into its sixth month, the U.S. is dealing with a weapons shortfall, and tensions — and tempers — are rising within the Trump administration. NBC News senior national security correspondent Courtney Kube takes us inside her reporting, which indicates that President Donald Trump is “exasperated” with his officials and aides and even threatened to fire a top Defense Department off...

Hundreds of firefighters have been working for days to contain wildfires near Spokane, Washington. The man accused of starting one of those fires is set to be arraigned in court today. NBC News national correspondent Morgan Chesky shares the stories of residents who have lost everything in the fires and explains why they have been so hard to put out. It’s been a record week on Wall Street, driven largely by AI — but Elo...

Progressive candidates have been victorious in Democratic primary races across the country, including in Michigan, where Abdul El-Sayed won the Democratic nomination for Michigan’s open Senate seat over Haley Stevens on Tuesday. NBC News correspondent Shaquille Brewster joins us from the purple state on how El-Sayed and other progressive candidates beat establishment candidates – and what their wins could mean for Democ...

The Senate Judiciary Committee voted along party lines Tuesday to advance Todd Blanche’s nomination as attorney general. Sens. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., and John Cornyn, R-Texas, had been holding up the proceedings, demanding written guarantees from Blanche that he was killing the Justice Department’s $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization" fund. NBC News Chief Capitol Hill Correspondent Ryan Nobles breaks down how Blanche convinc...

President Trump has been touting an agreement reached by his Board of Peace for Hamas to disarm. But Hamas officials say they won’t do that until Israel withdraws from Gaza. And now Israel says it’s not on board with the deal either. NBC News International Correspondent Matt Bradley breaks down why the president made the announcement without a full endorsement from either party – and how it resembles his politics ...

The FBI and the Environmental Protection Agency are warning utilities nationwide of more attacks on critical water infrastructure after hackers targeted cyberattacks on municipal water systems in at least seven states, including more than 30 facilities in Minnesota. NBC News National Security and Global Affairs Reporter Dan De Luce explains why law enforcement is pointing the finger at Iranian hackers and why U.S. infrastructure ha...

Russia launched a deadly attack on Ukraine overnight that reached all the way into Polish airspace. Beyond Europe, there’s a new battleground emerging in the nearby Caspian Sea, where Ukraine has been accused of attacking an Iranian ship. Nicole Grajewski, an expert on Russian-Iranian relations at Sciences Po, explains whether we could see the wars in Ukraine and Iran converging. Plus, the job market for recent college gradua...

Dr. Anthony Fauci repeatedly invoked his Fifth Amendment right to refrain from answering questions in his Senate hearing today, accusing committee Chairman Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., of having an “unhinged obsession” with prosecuting him. Over the weekend, Paul released Dr. Fauci’s personal journal, in which Fauci documented his experience as director of NIAID during the Covid pandemic. So what’s revealed in the...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was in Washington, D.C., for the funeral services of his close ally, Sen. Lindsey Graham, met with President Trump in person for the first time since they started the war with Iran. NBC News International Correspondent Matt Bradley details why Netanyahu is trying to put rumors of their strained relationship to bed ahead of U.S. and Israeli elections in the fall. Plus, wildfires are rag...

President Trump narrowly won Michigan in 2024 but, with his poll numbers slipping, Democrats think they have a chance at picking up a Senate seat. Will they go for progressive candidate Abdul El-Sayed or establishment-backed Congresswoman Haley Stevens? Michigan Public Radio’s Rick Pluta explains what’s at stake ahead of next week’s primary. Meanwhile, Maine Democrats have officially chosen Troy Jackson as their D...

Attention shoppers: Prices are rising on everything from gas to travel to groceries. Oil surged this week because of the war in the Middle East, gas prices followed suit, and now President Donald Trump has implemented a new round of tariffs on 60 U.S. trading partners just before his 10% global tariff expired. So how are businesses and consumers reacting? NBC News business reporter Allie Canal puts the economic volatility in perspe...

New York became the first state in the nation to enact a one-year moratorium on massive AI data centers last week. Gov. Kathy Hochul joins the show to explain why she’s not worried about missing out on an economic boom as a result — plus, her take on New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s first 200 days. Meanwhile, data centers have been popping up across the country — and have become a controversial issue in ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the Iran war has already cost over $37 billion, but some officials say that number is billions too low. Meanwhile, President Trump is escalating threats on critical Iranian infrastructure. NBC News national security and global affairs reporter Dan De Luce breaks down how the renewed attacks are impacting the Pentagon’s budget and whether the president’s threats could lead to more inte...

President Trump is reigniting a trade war with Canada, imposing a 50% tariff on a number of products ahead of Friday’s deadline for the expiration of his 10% global tariffs. NBC News chief White House correspondent Garrett Haake explains how the administration could keep using tariffs as a negotiation tactic and how the Canadian wildfires are factoring in. Plus, British authorities are trying to extradite the controversial so...

At least three U.S. service members were killed in the Middle East over the weekend. The U.S. military responded by attacking Iranian missile and drone launch sites. NBC News senior national security correspondent Courtney Kube breaks down how a lack of transparency from the Pentagon has made it difficult to understand the military’s mission and discusses whether we’ve entered a new phase of the war. Then, Keir Starmer ...

President Trump repeated his claims of voter fraud and foreign interference in the 2020 election in a primetime address last night, while also accusing China of undermining his presidential campaign that year. But he offered no clear evidence for these allegations. Former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson breaks down why he thinks Trump conflated election influence and election interference, and why he thinks states are prepa...

The U.S. military ramped up its attacks on Iran Thursday morning, with strikes targeting areas near Tehran. Iran hit back at U.S. allies in the region in response. NBC News chief international correspondent Keir Simmons explains how disagreements over the Strait of Hormuz are fueling the latest stage of the conflict. Then, President Donald Trump is teasing “really big news” in a primetime address to the nation at 9 p.m....

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche wants to drop the "acting" from his title, but lawmakers on both sides of the aisle voiced their concerns at his confirmation hearing Wednesday. NBC News Correspondent Julie Tsirkin walks us through some of the key moments in Blanche’s testimony and the odds that he’ll win over two Republican holdouts. Plus, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has identified more than 7,00...

ICE has issued a nationwide order to all officers to stop pursuing people in vehicles, current and former DHS officials say, after ICE officers fatally shot two men in less than a week. NBC News senior homeland security correspondent Julia Ainsley breaks down the latest incident in Maine and how the administration’s arrest quotas could be a factor in these shootings. Plus, 12 states are suing to block the Paramount-Warner Bro...