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Around 53 million people from South Dakota to New York are under winter weather alerts this weekend as travelers head home from Thanksgiving festivities. NBC News’ Valerie Castro reports from Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport.



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Nov. 29, 2025, 6:12 PM ESTBy Marlene Lenthang and Samantha CookinhamSeveral protesters were arrested in New York City after they blocked streets and exits in an apparent attempt to prevent federal agents from carrying out an immigration raid, according to police and video footage from the scene.The incident unfolded just before noon on Saturday in the area of Centre Street and Howard Street in lower Manhattan, the New York City Police Department said. Officers responded to a call for a disorderly group and found multiple people “blocking the street and exits at different locations.”Some were seen throwing debris, police said.The protesters were ordered multiple times to disperse, but police said several individuals were taken into custody after they refused to comply.Video from the scene showed dozens of people surrounding a parking garage with Homeland Security vehicles inside. A group of officers was seen blocking the entrance and setting up metal fences to keep the perimeter. Some officers were uniformed NYPD officers and some had face coverings and vests that said “Police Federal Officer.” Several protesters and officers were seen pushing against each other and the metal fences.Some protesters at the parking garage carried signs that said “Stop the Deportations” and “ICE out of New York.”A speaker in the background said: “This is the New York City Police Department. You are unlawfully in the roadway and obstructing vehicular traffic. You are ordered to leave the roadway and utilize the available sidewalk. If you do so voluntarily, no charges will be placed against you.”Other footage showed police officers on foot ahead of a long line of law enforcement vehicles, trying to clear the street of dozens of people. Sirens blared in the background as protesters tried to stand in front of the vehicles to slow them down. Some people were seen kicking over trash cans and recycling bins into the path of officers and police vans. Officers were seen detaining several individuals who refused to get off the road.NBC News did not immediately hear back from the Department of Homeland Security or Immigration and Customs Enforcement for comment.Last month, federal immigration officers conducted a raid in the same area, targeting street vendors known for selling jewelry, watches and knockoff bags on Canal Street.Marlene LenthangMarlene Lenthang is a breaking news reporter for NBC News Digital.Samantha CookinhamSamantha Cookinham is an NBC News assignment editor.
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Oct. 2, 2025, 12:48 PM EDTBy Shannon PettypieceJenna Norton drove out of the parking lot of the National Institutes of Health office in Maryland on Wednesday morning with a lump in her throat, leaving behind her research on kidney disease patients and not knowing when she’d see her colleagues or a paycheck again.“I feel really sad,” said Norton, who is among the roughly 750,000 federal employees furloughed this week as part of a government shutdown. “It was weird walking out the door and saying goodbye to everyone and not knowing when I’ll see them again.” We’d like to hear from you about how you’re experiencing the government shutdown, whether you’re a federal employee who can’t work right now or someone who is feeling the effects of shuttered services in your everyday life. Please contact us at tips@nbcuni.com or reach out to us here.Those furloughed employees won’t be paid until Congress passes legislation to fund the government, with neither side showing signs of budging as the shutdown entered its second day. While most of the furloughed employees won’t be allowed to work during the shutdown, others who are deemed essential — such as members of the military and airport security screeners — will have to continue working without pay. Federal workers typically receive back pay once the government reopens, but that requires congressional approval.On top of the uncertainty around when workers will see a paycheck again, the Trump administration has threatened to use the shutdown as a pretext to carry out more mass firings. “They’re really scared,” said Lauren Leib, a land law examiner at the Bureau of Land Management in New Mexico and president of the National Treasury Employees Union Local 340. “We’ve got people who are the primary income earners with very young children, and they’re going to be going without a paycheck and they don’t know what this is going to mean for them going forward.” That’s left federal workers, already drained and demoralized by months of layoffs and funding cuts, scrambling to figure out how to cope with the possibility of weeks without pay and a new round of layoffs, according to nearly two dozen federal workers who reached out to NBC News to share how the shutdown was impacting them.One State Department employee in his 20s said he was planning to deliver food for DoorDash and drive for Uber to pay his bills. The wife of a Department of Homeland Security worker in Ohio said she had to borrow $600 from a colleague to cover her co-pay on a set of leg braces she needed to pick up this week for her disabled child. “We run the risk, if this goes on longer than a week or two, of not being able to pay our mortgage and the possibility of losing our house,” she said, adding that her bank rejected her request for a deferment on her $1,700 a month mortgage. She said her oldest daughter has already asked if the shutdown will mean they will lose their home and have to move in with relatives and change schools. “Everybody thinks that federal workers get paid this really good money. But what my husband does, people who are in the military, who work for TSA, they struggle just like everybody else,” she said. “They are going to work without being paid, they’re wondering, without this paycheck, how am I going to pay this bill, where’s my next meal going to come from?”Like nearly all federal employees whom NBC News spoke with, she asked not to be identified for fear of retaliation by the Trump administration, which has publicly fired federal workers it has deemed as being against its agenda.“I was never afraid to speak my mind before, I never felt afraid to talk. Now, people are afraid,” an Arizona TSA worker said, explaining her concerns over speaking publicly about how the shutdown is impacting her. The TSA worker, who will have to continue working without pay during the shutdown, said she has enough in savings to get by for two to three weeks because she’d borrowed some extra money over the summer while refinancing her home in anticipation of a shutdown. But if the shutdown goes beyond a few weeks, she’s worried about being able to even afford the $88 a week at the gas pump she needs to get to work. “I’m working as a civil servant for the citizens of America to make their traveling safe,” she said. “Do you want me worrying about your safety or do you want me worrying about how am I going to feed my kid? How am I going to be able to afford her medication? How are we going to survive? Am I going to lose my house?”Still, the TSA employee and several others with whom NBC News spoke said they were in support of the shutdown despite the near-term hardship, if it meant pushing back against cuts the Trump administration and the Republican-led Congress have been making to health insurance programs and other federal services. “This is not something that any federal worker wants, but at the same time, enough is enough,” said M.T. Snyder, who works for the National Labor Relations Board, a federal agency that ensures employers follow laws protecting workers’ rights to organize. “We really need to stand up for our services that we provide and the agencies that enforce laws because, since Trump has been in office, his main goal has been destroying these agencies.”The Trump administration has said the federal workforce would shrink by around 300,000 workers this year to a total of 2.1 million people as a result of voluntary resignations and firings led by the Department of Government Efficiency, an initiative started in the early days of the Trump administration by billionaire Elon Musk. At the NIH, Norton said she feels like the government has already been slowly shutting down since the Trump administration began sweeping funding cuts and new barriers were put in place limiting medical research, including the work she does trying to develop real-world interventions to reduce health disparities among kidney disease patients. Despite the cutbacks she will have to make without her paycheck, she said she is glad to see Democrats in Congress doing something to stand up to the attacks by the Trump administration on federal workers and the services they provide. Democratic leaders in Congress have said they want to see an extension of Obamacare subsidies that expire at the end of the year included in a bill to keep the government open, something Republicans have refused to agree to. People who get health insurance through Obamacare will begin getting notices in the coming days warning that their premiums will soon go up unless Congress extends the funds.“I am thinking about the suffering that always happens in a shutdown, the harm that happens when people don’t get the services that they need, and as a federal worker, I won’t be paid during the shutdown,” Norton said. “But I’m also looking at this bigger picture and continuing the status quo just seems so much worse. So I think somebody in Congress needs to do something to rein in the lawlessness and this just seems to be one of the few opportunities they have for doing that.”Shannon PettypieceShannon Pettypiece is senior policy reporter for NBC News.
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Nov. 27, 2025, 1:59 PM ESTBy Katherine DoyleA federal judge is pressing the Justice Department to explain how it will protect the identities of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims after lawyers said that dozens of survivors’ names appeared unredacted in documents released by Congress, prompting what they described as “widespread panic.”Judge Richard Berman of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on Wednesday night requested a detailed description of the materials the government intends to release and an explanation of how it will safeguard the privacy of victims, including through redactions. Berman, who oversaw the trafficking case against Epstein, attached a letter from attorneys Bradley Edwards and Brittany Henderson that calls for strict privacy protections in future releases.The House Oversight Committee’s public release of more than 20,000 documents caused “widespread panic” among Epstein’s survivors, the lawyers wrote.Newly released emails bring Trump’s relationship with Epstein back into spotlight02:20Edwards and Henderson, who represent hundreds of Epstein’s victims, urged the Justice Department to redact all victims’ names in any future materials sent to Congress or made public. They also asked for a private meeting with the DOJ to share a list of more than 300 victims they represent so that federal officials can protect against further disclosures.The lawyers said dozens of victims’ names appeared unredacted in the cache of documents and emails from the Justice Department released this month, turning the release into a new source of concern for victims who had sought to maintain their anonymity.“[T]ransparency CANNOT come at the expense of the privacy, safety, and protection of sexual abuse and sex trafficking victims, especially these survivors who have already suffered repeatedly,” the lawyers wrote. According to the letter, some victims warned that releasing their names would put them in physical danger. Several told their lawyers that they had been approached on the street by reporters, including one who said she was confronted while standing with her nine-year old son, according to the letter.The lawyers pointed to one document released by the Justice Department that they said listed the names of “at least 28 victims … including individuals who were minor children at the time of the abuse,” as well as women granted protection in the same legal jurisdiction “as a result of grave public safety concerns.”“This type of negligence by the government to a survivor is just unable to comprehend,” one alleged victim wrote in a document included in the court filing. “I don’t understand how this is possible.”“I have been unable to mentally and emotionally function or sleep,” said another.A third questioned, “I thought the government had promised to redact our names and identifying material. I don’t understand how this is happening again.”Virginia Giuffre’s family reacts to House vote on Epstein files08:08In their letter, Edwards and Henderson said some survivors fear the Justice Department “intentionally exposed their names” when it released thousands of unredacted files tied to Epstein’s case to Congress this year.“These women now beg this Court and beg the United States Department of Justice to allow them to choose to remain protected,” the attorneys said.While Epstein’s estate also failed to redact some names, the lawyers said they believed these to be “genuine mistakes.”The lawyers also accused the DOJ of creating a “perpetual distraction” through the release of grand jury materials tied to Epstein co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell, arguing that the documents provide little meaningful information and are being used as a diversion.The Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday.Berman presided over the government’s 2019 case against Epstein before the disgraced financier and sex offender died in jail while awaiting trial.The letter from Edwards and Henderson comes after President Donald Trump signed a bill on Nov. 19 directing the DOJ to release its Epstein files. The president, who for months argued against passing the legislation, has continued to call the push to release the files part of a “hoax.”Congress passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which directs Attorney General Pam Bondi to release all unclassified records tied to Epstein within 30 days, while withholding or redacting material that could jeopardize a federal investigation. It is still not known exactly when or how the files will ultimately be released.Some victims have criticized the attempts to unseal the grand jury testimony, saying those attempts have disregarded victims’ repeated calls for privacy.Katherine DoyleKatherine Doyle is a White House reporter for NBC News.
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