LOS ANGELES — Peter Yarrow, the singer-songwriter best known as one-third of Peter, Paul and Mary, the folk-music trio whose impassioned harmonies transfixed millions as they lifted their voices in favor of civil rights and against war, has died. He was 86. Yarrow, who also co-wrote the group’s most enduring song, “Puff the Magic Dragon,”…
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OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Tuesday that there would be a wider range of speech on Facebook and other Meta platforms. “We’re going to get back to our roots around free expression on Facebook and Instagram,” he said. Here are some of the key changes: Gone will be third-party fact-checkers eyeing Facebook…
I am taking action to protect the East and West coasts, the eastern Gulf of Mexico, and Alaska’s Northern Bering Sea from oil and natural gas drilling and the harm it can cause. My decision reflects what coastal communities, businesses, and beachgoers have known for a long time: that drilling off these coasts could cause…
WASHINGTON — U.S. lawmakers honored Jimmy Carter on Tuesday, as the body of the nation’s 39th president arrived to lie in state in the U.S. Capitol. “Today, we gather to celebrate the life of a man whose works will echo for generations to come,” Vice President Kamala Harris said to the distinguished guests and members…
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, we put Donald Trump’s repeatedly stated desire to annex Canada in historical context. Plus, national political correspondent Steve…
Vows to rename Gulf of Mexico to ‘Gulf of America’ and assert U.S. dominance over Greenland, Canada, Panama Canal “We’re approaching the dawn of America’s golden age,” President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday in a freewheeling press conference at Mar-a-Lago, his first public remarks since Vice President Kamala Harris certified his victory in the 2024 election.…
LAS VEGAS — The highly decorated soldier who exploded a Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump hotel in Las Vegas used generative AI including ChatGPT to help plan the attack, Las Vegas police said Tuesday. A laptop, cellphone and watch are still under review nearly a week after 37-year-old Matthew Livelsberger fatally shot himself just before…
TAOISEACH SIMON HARRIS has defended referring to Donald Trump as an “awful gowl” in what he described as a “lighthearted” radio interview more than four years ago. Trump will be inaugurated for his second term as US president later this month, following his success in the US election in November. Trump previously ran for re-election…
WASHINGTON—President-elect Donald Trump aired plenty of grievances with the courts during a wide-ranging news conference from Mar-a-Lago Tuesday, swinging from topics like energy to foreign policy on the day after the certification of the 2024 election. Though he opened the news conference by welcoming Hussain Sajwani, the CEO of a Dubai-based development company DAMAC Properties,…