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Federal officers attempting to arrest an undocumented immigrant in Los Angeles fired shots that injured the immigrant and a U.S. marshal on Tuesday, authorities said



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Oct. 21, 2025, 2:41 PM EDTBy Ryan NoblesWASHINGTON — As the government shutdown barrels along, the impact on everyday Americans is growing.It’s creating additional stress on social service programs, which are now bracing for an increased need, including from people who don’t normally rely on their support.Food banks from coast to coast were already seeing an uptick in visits from federal workers who are furloughed or working without pay. Now, they are preparing for an additional influx from Americans who rely on federal food benefit programs, which are set to run out of funding at the end of the month, such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP or food stamps, and WIC, the food program for women, infants and children.“When food banks serve families, it’s usually a 1-to-9 ratio, so one meal provided by food banks versus nine provided by SNAP dollars. If those SNAP dollars get cut in half, that would mean that a local food bank quadruples their output just to meet that need,” Craig Rice, CEO of Manna Food Center in Maryland, told NBC Washington.Manna Food Center serves a significant federal workforce population, and the ongoing shutdown has forced it to make additional preparations to meet the increased need.“We’re going to be adding emergency bags so federal government employees will be able to come and ask for emergency assistance, and we’ll be able to assist them,” Rice said.Federal workers will be reimbursed at the end of the government shutdown, under a law passed by Congress in 2019. But Congress hasn’t made any progress toward reopening the government, leaving federal employees with no certainty about when they’ll get paid again.In Nevada, the Clark County Aviation Department is reaching out to the public, asking for help for its employees who are working without pay and will soon be in need of basic essentials to get through the day.“We’re gonna be opening it up for our federal employees to come get the essentials that they need. Nonperishable food items, we’re accepting gift cards for retail, for gas, for grocery stores, baby supplies, all the things that they need to help get them by during this government shutdown,” Luke Nimmo, the department’s public information officer, told 3 News in Las Vegas.And it’s not just food and hygiene items; counties across America will also be facing the possibility of a child care crisis. Programs like Head Start could soon be out of funding. In Kansas City, 17 Head Start-supported child care sites are in danger of closing at the end of the month, forcing families to quickly find alternatives, which may not be available.“I think families need to be prepared and not rely on things that can just be pulled out from under them,” Demetria Spencer, owner of Delightful Learning Center childcare in Kansas City, told KSHB.In some areas, state and local governments are finding ways to close the federal funding gap to continue to provide services that millions of Americans rely on. Authorities in Johnson County, Missouri, for example, have tapped some funds to help with administrative costs for WIC if federal funding runs out. But even that would only be a temporary reprieve.“We’re gonna continue to operate and provide services as long as we’re able to,” Charlie Hunt, director of the Johnson County Health and Environment Department, told KSHB.Ryan NoblesRyan Nobles is chief Capitol Hill correspondent for NBC News.
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Oct. 18, 2025, 7:00 AM EDTBy Carlo AngererRIGA, Latvia — They’re dotted on dozens of buildings across the Latvian capital: signal green signs with white stick figures of a family and the word “patvertne,” which means shelter.Installed everywhere from art deco buildings to wooden gates, the signs alert people to places to hide in the event of an attack — and have become one of many symbols of war preparedness in this charming city, which is crisscrossed with canals and looks nervously east at its Russian neighbor.After a string of recent aircraft incursions along NATO’s eastern flank and suspicious drones shutting down airports in several European countries including Germany, Denmark and Norway, fears about Russian aggression are growing in Latvia and its fellow Baltic nations, Estonia and Lithuania, already spooked by Moscow’s war in Ukraine.“We are on the front line. We are the eastern flank countries. We are neighboring Russia, an aggressive country,” Andris Sprūds, Latvia’s defense minister, told NBC News earlier this month at the Riga Conference, a meeting of international political and military leaders.A building marked “patvertne,” the Latvian word for “shelter,” in the capital, Riga.Carlo Angerer / NBC NewsHe added that Latvia, which launched a drone initiative earlier this year, had to some extent “already developed some resilience” in the face of any Kremlin aggression.Other attendees openly talked about a direct conflict between NATO and Russia. In an onstage discussion at the conference, Matthew Whitaker, the U.S. ambassador to the organization, publicly theorized with his fellow panelists about weapons systems, including long-range missiles and strategic bombers, that could be used against the Kremlin’s forces.But he also emphasized that modern warfare begins before troops and military hardware are deployed.“The first shot of the next war is not going to be tanks through the Suwalki Gap,” he said in a separate interview with NBC News, referring to the narrow land bridge between Poland and the Baltic states, seen as a potential attack point in a Russian invasion. “It’s going to be a cyberattack. It’s going to be knocking out airports or critical infrastructure.”Latvia and other Baltic countries have been very receptive to recent NATO initiatives and are on track to reach defense spending targets soon, he said, adding that they were “investing in things that are going to field more capabilities for our defense and deterrence.”Emergency services have identified hundreds of existing shelters in Riga and authorities are planning to build new ones.Carlo Angerer / NBC News“The investments that make each individual ally stronger and therefore the collective alliance stronger are the important investments, and a country like Latvia is certainly doing it best in class right now,” he added.Adm. Rob Bauer, who chaired NATO’s military committee from June 2021 until January, also suggested that a new conflict with Russia would be fought “in a different way.”Ukraine, he said, lacked air power and strong naval assets, adding that NATO fighter jets had been carrying out missions over the Baltics from the USS Gerald Ford after it was deployed to the North Sea earlier this year.Others, like Roberta Metsola, the president of the European Parliament, openly acknowledged that it took “way too long” for other nations to listen to Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania, which were occupied by the Soviet Union for decades and more recently have been at the forefront of pushing NATO allies to take the Russian threat seriously.Airis Rikveilis, the national security adviser to Latvia’s Prime Minister Evika Silina, said his country was not only focusing on increasing military capabilities, but also on preparing civil society for conflict.“This is not going to be 1940,” he said, referring to the first Soviet occupation, when the Red Army was able to take over within weeks. “Should that battle start tomorrow, we’ll be ready to fight tomorrow with what we have,” he added.After Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, there have been visible changes across Latvia, which has installed a fence along its 176-mile border with Russia. It has also cut itself off from the shared power grid with Russia and Kremlin ally Belarus, which sits to Latvia’s south, and is now relying on energy from its other neighbors.Ukrainian flags fly outside the Russian Embassy in Riga, Latvia.Carlo Angerer / NBC NewsIn Riga, officials have demolished the 260-foot victory memorial dedicated to the Soviet army and renamed the road where the Russian Embassy is located to Ukrainian Independence Street.The blue street sign sits at the corner building next to the embassy’s CCTV cameras and under its large flag. Dozens of Ukrainian flags fly in the square just across the road.Linda Ozola, who served as Riga’s deputy mayor for five years until this summer, oversaw the rebuilding of the shelter network, among other civil protection measures. She said her staff had to scout museums and archives for old documents, as well as reinspect old shelter spaces, some of which had fallen into disrepair.Emergency services have identified hundreds of existing shelters, and updated legislation has cleared the way to build new ones. Their locations are available on a website and cellphone app.Some of them will likely be funded by an 85 million euro ($99.4 million) deal signed on the sidelines of the Riga Conference by Arvils Ašeradens, Latvia’s finance minister, and European allies. The majority of that funding will be used to enhance the civil protection infrastructure, and some will also be used to install generators at health care facilities.Ozola said the city has also started to build up a stock of emergency supplies including canned food and sleeping cots. Riga has been an example for the other regions of Latvia and could also be one for cities across Europe, she said.“The truth is not good because we have a crazy neighbor who wants to destroy our country. And the neighbor is not hiding that, really,” she said. “They haven’t physically crossed the border, but they have crossed the airspace and they have cut our critical infrastructure in the Baltic Sea.”Carlo AngererCarlo Angerer is a multimedia producer and reporter based in Mainz, Germany. 
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Sept. 23, 2025, 7:55 PM EDTBy Liz Szabo and Lauren DunnDr. Heidi Leftwich, a maternal-fetal medicine specialist at UMass Memorial Health, said she has gotten many more questions about acetaminophen from some of her pregnant patients in recent weeks.The safety of the fever and pain reliever “comes up periodically,” especially when there’s a news story about it, said Dr. Allison Bryant, a maternal-fetal medicine specialist at Mass General Brigham.Rather than scare them or dictate what they should do, Bryant said, she favors “shared decision-making” with her patients, with them “at the center” of her guidance.At a news briefing Monday, President Donald Trump promoted unproven claims that taking acetaminophen during pregnancy was linked to a risk of autism in children. The Food and Drug Administration has sent a letter telling doctors to “consider minimizing the use of acetaminophen,” the active ingredient in Tylenol and a wide range of other over-the-counter medications, for routine low-grade fevers in pregnant women.Trump’s announcement came after several weeks of reports about the warning. Pregnant women experiencing pain or fever should “tough it out,” Trump said.Dr. Laura Riley, chief of obstetrics and gynecology at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York, said patients have come in since Trump’s briefing anxious and unsure what to do. “There was a lot of head-shaking,” Riley said. Are doctors changing their guidance about acetaminophen? More than half of women worldwide use acetaminophen during pregnancy. It is used in hundreds of products, including cough and cold treatments. Doctors said in interview that their advice hasn’t changed, in spite of the Trump administration’s concerns.“We normally advise women with pain or fever to take acetaminophen, unless there is some other reason why we think it might be unsafe,” such as when women have allergies or pre-existing liver disease, Bryant said. Riley said the most common reasons pregnant women take acetaminophen are fever, headache and low back pain. “I’m telling women not to do anything differently than what we started with, which was Tylenol is one of the best pain relievers that we have in pregnancy,” she said.Untreated fever, especially in the first three months of pregnancy, increases the risk of miscarriage, birth defects and premature birth, according to the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine. Fever in the second and third trimesters can trigger contractions and may be associated with early labor, Riley said, so “it’s important to treat.”Emily Heumann, 31, was 10 or 12 weeks pregnant when she spiked a fever of 104 degrees because of a viral infection. She’d developed hand, foot and mouth disease — a highly contagious virus that typically spreads among children — after she was infected by her 4-year-old son. The infection causes sores in the mouth and a rash on the hands and feet.Heumann said that although her son experienced only minor symptoms that went away quickly, she experienced severe pain for 10 days, especially because of sores in her throat and inside her ears.Her doctor told her that it was important to bring her temperature down and suggested she take acetaminophen, often sold under the brand name Tylenol.“If the Tylenol didn’t work, they said to go to the emergency room,” said Heumann, who is now 36 weeks pregnant.Bryant suggests that women with questions about any medication during pregnancy talk to doctors they trust and who know them well.Both the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Society of Maternal Fetal Medicine continue to recommend acetaminophen as safe for pregnant women and say the bulk of medical evidence doesn’t show a link to autism. Bryant noted that the groups base their advice on the total body of evidence about acetaminophen and neurodevelopment disorders, not just one study.“That guidance is not likely to change anytime soon,” Bryant said.Leftwich said she feels comfortable talking with her patients about the treatment of fever and pain with acetaminophen during pregnancy. “This is a very important conversation to have with a trusted physician.”Untreated pain in pregnancy can be risky, tooRiley said that after Trump warned about acetaminophen use during pregnancy, she’s had patients asking, “‘the next time I get a headache, what should I do?’” Her response: “Take Tylenol.” “There’s no reason for you to tough it out,” Riley said. “That’s not an appropriate way of managing pain.” If women ask Bryant about research suggesting a link between acetaminophen and autism, she tells them that the strongest, most rigorous study to examine the question found no association between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and autism, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder or intellectual disability.An important feature of that study of more than 2.4 million children, published last year in JAMA, is that it included siblings of children with autism as a control group. Autism tends to run in families, with twins or siblings of people with autism having a higher risk.Leftwich said Heumann’s doctor did right by putting the patient first and keeping her needs in mind.“Instilling undue fear in pregnant individuals could lead to inadequate management of fever and pain,” Leftwich said, adding that untreated pain is associated with depression, anxiety and high blood pressure, which can increase the risk of preterm births.Heumann said she is grateful that her doctor suggested acetaminophen for her fever, which began to fall within an hour of her taking the medication. Acetaminophen also helped relieve the intense pain from the infection.“It was one of the worst things I’ve ever experienced,” said Heumann, 31, who lives in central Florida. When she tried to sleep at night, “laying on the sores was especially painful. The throat pain was the worst.”Lowest dose for the shortest amount of timeLeftwich said she advises pregnant women to be cautious when they use any medication. “It’s really important to talk about the judicious use of any medication,” she said. “You should use the lowest dose possible to get the treatment that you need, for instance, for fever reduction or pain control. I would say the same about Tylenol as I would for any other medication.”Heumann said pregnant women have enough to worry about without adding unproven risks.“Every mom I know feels guilt regularly,” she said. “We want what’s best for our kids so badly, and no matter what we do, most of us worry … if what we’ve done is the right thing. This just adds one more thing for moms to worry about. And it’s based in misinformation, which is so dangerous.”Kati Woock, who developed frequent migraines during her pregnancy five years ago, said her doctor reassured her that taking acetaminophen — one of the ingredients in her usual migraine treatment — was safe.“Sometimes with a migraine, I can’t even be vertical,” said Woock, 36, who lives in Illinois.Woock said she was with family members when she developed the first migraine of her pregnancy, which occurred mainly during the first three to four months. Her family told her, “You shouldn’t take anything when you’re pregnant because you’re going to hurt the baby,” Woock recalled. “I was kind of nervous about it, but I decided that my doctor probably knew what she was talking about.”Liz SzaboLiz Szabo is an independent health and science journalist. Her work has won multiple national awards. One of her investigations led to a new state law in Virginia.Lauren DunnLauren Dunn is the executive editor of the NBC News Medical Unit.
November 22, 2025
Nov. 22, 2025, 12:08 AM ESTBy Zoë RichardsMichigan State Police responded to a bomb threat at the home of Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., a spokesperson from her office said in a statement on Friday. The threat comes after President Donald Trump accused her and other Democratic lawmakers of “seditious behavior” that was “punishable by death.”In a statement posted to X, a spokesperson from Slotkin’s office said that the senator “wasn’t home at the time” and that Michigan State Police “searched the property and confirmed that no one was in danger.”Slotkin’s office and Michigan State Police did not immediately respond to requests for further details on the incident.The bomb threat comes after Slotkin, who previously worked at the CIA, and several other Democratic lawmakers, including those who are former service members, had posted a video this week urging military and intelligence officers to “refuse illegal orders” from the Trump administration.Trump on Thursday had responded to the video by calling for the arrest of Slotkin and others for “seditious behavior,” which he said was “punishable by death.”Trump had also re-posted threats from other users on Truth Social that said, “Hang them George Washington would.”White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Thursday that Trump did not want to execute members of Congress, but defended the president’s comments by accusing the lawmakers of “encouraging” service members and those working to ensure national security “to defy the president’s lawful orders.”Slotkin has defended the video, writing on X Tuesday: “This is the law. Passed down from our Founding Fathers, to ensure our military upholds its oath to the Constitution — not a king.”Slotkin told NBC News Thursday that she had additional protection from law enforcement, saying, “Capitol Police is now with me 24/7.”Slotkin also responded to Trump’s comments during an MS NOW interview on Thursday, saying: “Leadership climate is set from the top and if the president is saying you should be hanged, then we shouldn’t be surprised when folks on the ground are going to follow suit and say even worse.” The bomb threat at Slotkin’s residence comes after Indiana state Sen. Greg Goode was the victim of a swatting incident on Sunday. That happened shortly after Trump took aim at him and other state lawmakers for failing to act on demands from the president and his allies to redraw the state’s congressional map as part of a broad effort to pick up more House seats and widen Republicans’ majority in the lower chamber next year.Zoë RichardsZoë Richards is a politics reporter for NBC News.Alexandra Marquez, Megan Lebowitz, Allan Smith, Rebecca Shabad and Sarah Dean contributed.
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