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New York City Mayor Eric Adams drops out of mayoral race

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New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced that he is dropping his third-party bid for re-election, narrowing the field for November’s election.



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Sept. 28, 2025, 7:00 PM EDT / Updated Sept. 28, 2025, 7:11 PM EDTBy Yamiche Alcindor and Alexandra MarquezPresident Donald Trump, in an exclusive interview Sunday with NBC News, accused former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Christopher Wray of “inappropriate” behavior during his tenure and said that he “would think” that the Justice Department is investigating him.“I would imagine. I would certainly imagine. I would think they are doing that,” Trump said during a phone call when asked whether the Justice Department should investigate Wray.Trump accused the former director of wrongdoing in the interview, telling NBC News that Wray, who resigned at the end of the Biden administration, “did a terrible job and we just found out about it.”“I think it’s very inappropriate what he, what he did. And, I think a lot of his service was very inappropriate. But, we haven’t gone beyond that. Don’t forget, we just found out about all of these FBI agents being there,” he said. The comment about FBI agents “being there” was an apparent reference to an unfounded accusation Trump posted on Truth Social on Saturday, alleging the FBI “secretly placed, against all Rules, Regulations, Protocols, and Standards, 274 FBI Agents into the Crowd just prior to, and during, the January 6th Hoax.”Trump has repeated that unfounded claim multiple times in the past. Last week, Blaze Media, a conservative media outlet, wrote that “FBI had 274 plainclothes agents embedded in Jan. 6 crowds, congressional source says.” NBC News has not independently confirmed the story.In the Truth Social post on Saturday, the president also alleged that the agents were “probably acting as Agitators and Insurrectionists,” and certainly not as “Law Enforcement Officials.” Trump’s post also directly called out Wray, saying he “has some major explaining to do.”Wray has not publicly commented on the recent allegations.There is no evidence that undercover FBI officers were at protests at or near the Capitol on Jan. 6. A report by the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General in December 2024 concluded the same.On Saturday evening, FBI Director Kash Patel gave a different description of the agency’s role on Jan. 6, 2021. Patel also criticized the FBI’s action on that day. In a post on X and in an interview with Fox News, Patel said that agents were only at the Capitol after the riot began to try and control the unruly crowd.“274 FBI agents were thrown into crowd control on Jan 6 against FBI standards. That failure was on corrupt leadership. Thanks to agents stepping up, the truth is coming out,” Patel wrote on X, in a post that has apparently been taken down.“Agents were sent into a crowd control mission after the riot was declared by Metro Police — something that goes against FBI standards,” Patel told Fox News.A senior former FBI official with knowledge of the bureau’s actions that day said the Blaze post was “completely and utterly untrue.”“I know of no agents who were authorized to be in the crowds observing the constitutionally protected rights of citizens on January 6th,” said the official who requested anonymity, citing fear of retaliation.Trump’s remarks about Wray come just days after another former FBI Director, James Comey, was indicted last week on two counts: making a false statement and obstruction of a congressional proceeding. The indictment relates to testimony Comey gave at a 2020 Senate Judiciary Committee hearing where he denied authorizing leaks of certain information to the media.Comey has denied any wrongdoing and his indictment came after Trump publicly encouraged the Justice Department to pursue investigations against Comey and other political foes, like New York Attorney General Letitia James and Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif.Other Trump administration officials in recent weeks and months have hinted at other Justice Department investigations happening behind the scenes.On Sunday, Vice President JD Vance told Fox News that, there are “certainly going to be more indictments coming over the next three and a half years of the Trump administration.”Plans for PortlandTrump also spoke about directing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to send troops to Oregon and that he was “authorizing Full Force, if necessary” to protect Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities in “War ravaged Portland.”“They are literally attacking and there are fires all over the place. … It looks, like, terrible,” Trump said. “Can’t have that in an American city. But this has been going on for a long time. This has been going on for years, actually.”On Saturday, Democratic Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek said she told Trump in a phone call that the state did not need federal troops to be sent there. “Our city is a far cry from the war ravaged community that he has posted about on social media and I conveyed that directly to him,” Kotek said at a press conference. “The president will not find lawlessness or violence here.” On Sunday, Oregon officials filed a preliminary injunction to stop the deployment.Though on Sunday the president stopped short of committing to send in troops, telling NBC News that “we’ll make a decision on that pretty soon.”He also promised federal operations in Chicago, something he’s been floating for weeks.“Chicago is a mess. It’s a crime-ridden mess,” the president said, adding later, “Any place where there is big trouble, we want to go and help out.”Trump also referenced what he called a “successful” operation in Washington, D.C., where the federal government surged federal law enforcement officers and National Guard troops in August.“Look at Washington, D.C., it’s doing so beautifully now. Everybody is so happy. This was a crime-ridden mess, absolute crime-ridden mess, and look at it now, it’s so successful,” he said.The National Guard was also deployed to Los Angeles this year, where thousands of troops and hundreds of Marines arrived in the city on federal orders to quell anti-ICE protests in June.The president has threatened to send troops and a surge of federal law enforcement officers to other cities run by Democratic mayors as well, including Baltimore and New Orleans.Earlier this month, the president created a task force to mobilize resources to Memphis, too, a move welcomed by Tennessee GOP Gov. Bill Lee.Impending government shutdownTrump and congressional leaders are also facing a looming deadline to avoid a government shutdown on Wednesday, if Democrats and Republicans don’t agree on a continuing resolution.On Sunday, Trump said that a shutdown is “a possibility.”The president is slated to meet with congressional leaders from both parties at the White House on Monday.Last week, the Trump administration laid the groundwork to permanently lay off mass numbers of federal workers that would normally be temporarily furloughed for the length of a government shutdown.“We are going to cut a lot of the people that, you know, we’re able to cut, if there is [a shutdown],” the president said Sunday. “We’re able to cut on a permanent basis and we will be doing that. I’d rather not do that.”He also blamed Democrats for causing a potential shutdown, accusing them of wanting to fund healthcare for immigrants living in the U.S. illegally. Senate Democrats earlier this month sought to pass their own version of a stopgap spending bill that would have restored cuts to Medicaid that Republicans implemented earlier this year.Neither that measure, nor a measure that the House passed to keep funding at current levels through Nov. 21, received enough votes to pass in the Senate earlier this month “The problem we have with the shutdown is that Democrats want to do all healthcare for illegal immigrants,” Trump said. “We’re not going to do that.”On Sunday, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., echoed Trump, telling NBC News’ “Meet the Press” that it was “totally up to the Democrats” whether a shutdown would occur.“What the Democrats have done here is take the federal government as a hostage — and for that matter, by extension, the American people — to try and get a whole laundry list of things that they want that special interest groups on the far left are pushing them to accomplish,” he added.In an interview afterwards, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., called for “a serious negotiation“ with Republicans.“We need the meeting. It’s a first step, but only a first step. We need a serious negotiation,” he told “Meet the Press.”Previewing Netanyahu meeting The president also spoke about an upcoming meeting he has planned on Monday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, telling NBC News that he’s optimistic a deal can be reached to end the war in Gaza.“We’re doing very well. It looks like there is a really good chance for peace in the Middle East. Everybody is on board. Everybody,” Trump said.His remarks come as Trump last week said he would not allow Israel to annex the West Bank.“It’s not going to happen,” he told reporters in a press gaggle.So far, no one has revealed the details of a potential peace deal between Hamas and Israel, but Vice President JD Vance on Sunday told Fox News that he was “cautiously hopeful” that both sides could reach a deal. “But I think the President’s optimism is warranted here. I feel more optimistic about where we are right now than where we have been at any point in the last few months, but let’s be realistic, these things can get derailed at the very last minute. So while I remain very hopeful, I am cautiously hopeful,” Vance said.Yamiche AlcindorYamiche Alcindor is a White House correspondent for NBC News.Alexandra MarquezAlexandra Marquez is a politics reporter for NBC News.Michael Kosnar contributed.
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Sept. 30, 2025, 1:42 PM EDT / Updated Sept. 30, 2025, 3:12 PM EDTBy Matt Lavietes and Saba HamedyA major Hollywood actors’ union condemned reports that talent agents are looking to sign AI “actor” Tilly Norwood for representation. The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, or SAG-AFTRA, said in a statement Tuesday that Tilly Norwood “is not an actor, it’s a character generated by a computer program that was trained on the work of countless professional performers.””It has no life experience to draw from, no emotion and, from what we’ve seen, audiences aren’t interested in watching computer-generated content untethered from the human experience,” the union said. The union blasted the AI creation for “using stolen performances to put actors out of work, jeopardizing performer livelihoods and devaluing human artistry.”SAG-AFTRA added that Hollywood producers “should be aware that they may not use synthetic performers without complying with our contractual obligations, which generally require notice and bargaining whenever a synthetic performer is going to be used,” it added.Tilly Norwood was made by the AI company Particle6 Productions, led by comedian and writer Eline Van der Velden, who announced on Saturday at the Zurich Film Festival that several talent agencies were looking to cast the AI creation in various films and shows, prompting a wave of outrage in Hollywood. Actors, including Emily Blunt, Lukas Gage, Melissa Barrera and Kiersey Clemons, have slammed the AI creation. On Monday, EGOT winner Whoopi Goldberg opened an episode of “The View” slamming it.”It’s a little bit of an unfair advantage. But you know what? Bring it on,” she said. “Because you can always tell them from us.”Meet Tilly Norwood, an AI Actress Causing a Stir in Hollywood03:06Van der Velden pushed back on the criticism on Sunday, writing in a statement on Instagram that she sees “AI not as a replacement for people, but as a tool — a new paintbrush.””AI characters should be judged as part of their own genre, on their own merits, rather than compared directly with human actors,” she wrote. “Each form of art has its place, and each can be valued for what it uniquely brings.”Van der Velden’s company, Particle6, did not immediately return a request for comment on the union’s statement. As part of a landmark deal between SAG-AFTRA and major Hollywood studios in 2023 — following a strike that lasted more than 100 days — the union and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers meet twice a year to make sure they are complying with federal regulations of AI as it continues to evolve.At The Grill, an entertainment conference in Los Angeles hosted by The Wrap on Tuesday, speakers on AI-focused panels were asked about Tilly Norwood and whether the notion of a digital actor should be taken seriously.Yves Bergquist, director of AI in media at USC’s Entertainment Technology Center, said it was “nonsense.”“AI music has been a possibility for years and years and years, and we don’t have any major AI artists out there,” he said during a panel titled “From Ideation to Innovation: AI In the Studio Pipeline.” “I think it’s a gimmick … are there going to be digital characters in certain films down the road? Yeah of course,” Bergquist said. “Are there actually going to be talent that’s digital? … No, and boo.”Matt LavietesMatt Lavietes is a reporter for NBC News.Saba HamedySaba Hamedy is the trends and culture editor for NBC News.Lindsay Good contributed.
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Sept. 23, 2025, 3:05 PM EDTBy Doha MadaniJimmy Kimmel broke his silence after his brief suspension from the airwaves, posting a picture to Instagram on Tuesday of a Hollywood figure who once described himself as being on President Richard Nixon’s “enemies list.”Kimmel shared a photo of himself and Norman Lear, the television producer who was best known for his progressive activism. Lear died in 2023 at age 101. The late-night host captioned the photo, which features his arm around Lear, “Missing this guy today.” “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” is set to return to ABC on Tuesday night after the network suspended the show over what it described as “ill-timed” comments from Kimmel on the murder of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk. During his Sept. 15 show, Kimmel criticized some Republicans for how they were responding to Kirk’s killing.“The MAGA gang [is] desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel said during his monologue. Disney’s ABC said last week that it was pre-empting Kimmel’s show “indefinitely” following threats of regulatory action from Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr. Many, including a handful of celebrities, expressed outrage toward ABC for choosing to pull Kimmel’s show following Carr’s threats.After increasing public pressure and calls to boycott, Disney announced Monday that Kimmel would return to late night. In its announcement, the company did not address the concerns that Kimmel’s freedom of speech rights had been violated.Hollywood rallies behind Kimmel, while Trump and supporters cheer suspension03:08Kimmel had not spoken publicly about the suspension since it happened.The late-night host has described Lear as one of his idols. Lear developed now-beloved sitcoms such as “All in the Family” “Good Times,” “The Jeffersons” and “One Day at a Time.” His work was defined by being unafraid to tackle social issues long considered taboo. Over six decades, Lear’s work took up racism, sexism, the women’s liberation movement, antisemitism, abortion, homophobia, the Vietnam War and class conflict. Lear said his work put him on Nixon’s “enemies list” because he was angry about Lear “glorifying” homosexuality on TV, according to Smithsonian magazine. He appeared delighted to learn of Nixon’s reaction to his work after a tape leaked of the president ranting about “All in the Family.” “I thought it was delicious that in the Oval Office — I didn’t care for what he was saying, I didn’t care for that particular president in any shape, way or form — but to hear the president and his confederates talking about that show and at some length, reasoning about it and comparing it to the Greek civilization, that could not have been more interesting,” he told Talking Points Memo in 2015.In a 2016 interview with “Democracy Now!” Lear compared Nixon’s rant about his show in the leaked tapes to being “Trumpish.” He also said that he remembered his civics education as a child, which taught him that he was protected by the Founding Fathers. “But when I was a boy, I learned to love my Declaration of Independence — and I underline ‘my’ — and my Constitution and my Bill of Rights, because they were the protections Americans needed in a free society where everybody is equal under the law,” Lear said at the time.Doha MadaniDoha Madani is a senior breaking news reporter for NBC News. Pronouns: she/her.
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Oct. 30, 2025, 11:54 AM EDT / Updated Oct. 30, 2025, 12:24 PM EDTBy Gary Grumbach and David K. LiA former Virginia teacher told civil jurors on Thursday she thought she was dead or about to die in the moments after she was shot by a 6-year-old boy at school two years ago.Abigail Zwerner spoke slowly and at times struggled with her emotions, explaining how she was severely injured on Jan. 6, 2023, at Richneck Elementary in Newport News.“I thought I was dying, I thought I had died,” she told the jury of three men and six women. “I thought I was on my way to heaven or in heaven. But then it all got black.”The plaintiff’s testimony is at the heart of her $40 million civil lawsuit against former assistant principal Ebony Parker, who allegedly ignored several warnings about the boy who shot Zwerner.The attack was totally preventable had Parker acted on clear signs the boy posed a threat, Zwerner said in her civil complaint.The bullet, fired by the child, tore through Zwerner’s hand before it struck her in the chest, where it remains today. A doctor testified earlier in this trial that it’d be far more dangerous to remove that round than to leave it alone.To this day, Zwerner said she struggles with basic physical tasks. The plaintiff recalled having lunch recently with her lawyer and failing to open a bag of potato chips, after trying to rip it at different angles.“And I eventually asked you to open it, the same thing with water bottles,” Zwerner said.The psychological scars of the shooting are still fresh and painful, the plaintiff said.She recalled how loved ones had planned to see the movie “Hamilton” before breaking down the morning of, realizing there’d be scenes of dueling in the famous musical.“I felt like everything just came over my body,” the educator said. “I remember crying a lot, and I remember that afterwards.” Her family asked what she’d like to do in place of going to that movie. “I remember saying or telling them ‘nowhere,’ like I can’t go anywhere,” Zwerner said. “I just want to stay home. I’m not going anywhere today.” A Richneck teacher testified earlier this week that she told the assistant principal about the weapon three times after students had tipped her off about the boy having a gun in his backpack.Another teacher testified that she also shared similar information with Parker after a different student alerted her about the boy having a gun.Under cross-examination on Thursday, Parker’s attorney inferred that Zwerner, herself, could or should have taken more decisive action against the gun-wielding youngster.Zwerner testified that another teacher had told her she was going to report the child to Parker. At that point, Zwerner said she felt safe knowing that a superior was aware of the threat.“I didn’t (take any other action), honestly didn’t think twice,” she said. “ It was my understanding that the administration wouldn’t think twice as well when alerted about a potential gun in school.” The educator told NBC’s “TODAY” show, three months after the shooting that the attack left her with permanent emotional wounds.“I’m not sure when the shock will ever go away because of just how surreal it was and, you know, the vivid memories that I have of that day,” Zwerner said at the time. “I think about it daily. Sometimes I have nightmares.”When Zwerner originally filed her civil complaint, Parker, the school district and several other administrators were named as defendants. The case was eventually whittled down to Parker as the lone defendant.On paper, any civil verdict against Parker would be paid by the Virginia Risk Sharing Association (VRSA), an insurance pool made up of many public bodies statewide, including the Newport News School Board.This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.Gary GrumbachGary Grumbach is an NBC News legal affairs reporter, based in Washington, D.C.David K. LiSenior Breaking News Reporter
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