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Nov. 15, 2025, 5:00 AM ESTBy Yuliya TalmazanLONDON — A flap of outrage is brewing over the fate of 15 residents of a cramped central London building, who critics say live out their lives indoors with no daylight, fresh air or adequately deep water.The gentoo penguins are one of the star attractions at the Sea Life London Aquarium, in one of the city’s most popular tourist hot spots, across the river from the British Parliament and nestled between a “Shrek”-themed experience and the popular London Eye landmark.British lawmakers this week joined campaigners in voicing mounting concerns for their 15 feathered neighbors, calling for government intervention over what they say is “un-British” treatment.Protesters demanding freedom for the penguins. Vuk Valcic / SOPA / Lightrocket via Getty ImagesThe company that owns the aquarium says its penguin enclosure meets the standards of modern zoo practice set by the government.Visitors file past sharks, turtles and tropical fish in big tanks to reach the penguins, housed in a noticeably colder exhibit, built of rocks and artificial snow cliffs that hover over a pool of water. There, the 10 females and five males appear to spend their time mostly bobbing, jumping and swooshing through the water while visitors look on, children squealing with excitement while adults whip out their phones to take pictures.Most people filing by Thursday, largely families with children, told NBC News they were not aware of the brewing controversy.Shivani Gupta, visiting from Canada, said the conditions in the enclosure “did not seem right,” although she added she would have still visited the aquarium as she has never seen penguins before. Some of the gentoo penguins have spent years at the Sea Life London Aquarium and some have never seen the sky, according to animal activists. AFP – Getty ImagesChelsea Gibbons, 25, on vacation from Massachusetts, said she was not aware of the concerns raised by the campaigners, but noted there was no access to the outdoors for the penguins and the pool area appeared “a bit small,” although there is an additional area for the penguins to waddle around. Had she known about the efforts to free the birds ahead of time, Gibbon said, she would not have come. “The aquarium is saying it’s meeting the standards, but we can always improve those standards,” she added. Dozens of British lawmakers have signed an open letter to Environment Secretary Emma Reynolds asking her to “consider whether the penguins should be relocated to a more suitable facility better aligned with their behavioral, ecological and physiological needs,” according to British media reports. David Taylor, a member of Parliament with the ruling Labour Party, has been spearheading the campaign, posting on X that “abusing animals for money is un-British.” The largest populations of gentoo penguins are found in the Falkland Islands and the South Georgia Islands in the South Atlantic, and on the Antarctic Peninsula, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature.Rory Wilson, a professor of aquatic biology at Swansea University in the United Kingdom, told NBC News that in the wild, gentoo penguins routinely dive up to more than 160 feet deep. “I know that the official guidelines for captive penguins is that they need at least 4 feet of water depth, which I don’t know who thought of that. It clearly wasn’t someone who thought much about penguins,” he said. “They are monstrously efficient, wonderful swimmers. They are one of the fastest penguins, most athletic, and therefore any condition that they are being kept in captivity, which constrains their ability to move themselves, is obviously of concern,” he said. A Freedom for Animals protester last month.Jonathan Brady / PA Images via Getty ImagesAs far as fresh air and daylight are concerned, Wilson said, some subspecies of gentoo could struggle to survive outside in the U.K. due to a risk of fungal infections. Freedom for Animals, a U.K. charity that opposes the captivity of animals in “zoos, aquariums, mobile zoos and circuses,” launched a campaign to free the penguins in February 2024, but the movement has picked up steam with a protest held outside the facility last month and the intervention from MPs.A petition started by the charity has garnered more than 40,000 signatures and asks theme park operator Merlin Entertainments, which owns the aquarium, to guarantee the “safe and permanent retirement of the penguins” to a facility that can provide “a much more suitable environment.”In a statement to NBC News, Merlin Entertainments said the penguin enclosure is located on the ground floor of the aquarium, not the basement, and was “carefully designed to reflect important elements of the penguins’ natural environment as closely as possible to ensure good health, including climate-controlled temperature and filtered fresh air.”The company also said the enclosure has technology that creates appropriate seasonal lighting, reflecting changing seasons. The penguin colony is regularly inspected by independent veterinarians, and local and national authorities, it added. “This is a complex issue,” its statement said. “There’s a lot to consider, and we take every decision seriously, always guided by what’s best for the animals. We’re open. We’re listening. And we’ve always done what’s right for our animals based on expert advice and their individual needs. That’s a commitment we stand by.” Yuliya TalmazanYuliya Talmazan is a reporter for NBC News Digital, based in London.Elmira Aliieva contributed.
November 6, 2025
Nov. 5, 2025, 6:07 PM ESTBy Michael KosnarA federal judge blasted Justice Department prosecutors on Wednesday several times for what he described as an “indict first, investigate later” attitude in the criminal case against former FBI Director James Comey.Magistrate Judge William Fitzpatrick voiced his concerns at a hearing in U.S. District Court in Alexandria about how prosecutors from the Eastern District of Virginia were handling evidence against Comey, who was indicted in September on one count of making a false statement and one count of obstructing a congressional proceeding stemming from his testimony on Sept. 30, 2020, during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.Comey, who was indicted after President Donald Trump urged Attorney General Pam Bondi in a social media post to charge Comey and other longtime enemies, has pleaded not guilty. Ahead of a trial scheduled for Jan. 5, his attorneys have argued that the case should be dismissed on the basis that it is a vindictive prosecution brought at the behest of Trump. They are also challenging interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Lindsey Halligan’s appointment as U.S. attorney, calling it “unlawful.”On Wednesday, Fitzpatrick expressed particular concern about information that was obtained through search warrants from a previous FBI investigation. He appeared frustrated and said this was not a “traditional case” and that “the procedural posture of this case is highly unusual.”Fitzpatrick chastised prosecutors, saying, the “indict first investigate later” strategy they employed “creates procedural challenges.”The hearing lasted just under an hour.Lindsey Halligan in the Oval Office of the White House on March 6,.Al Drago / Bloomberg via Getty Images fileFitzpatrick ordered prosecutors to produce, by the end of the day on Thursday, all grand jury transcripts and materials from the current prosecution as well as evidence that FBI agents seized during a prior leak investigation in 2019 and 2020.Comey’s attorneys said they are at a disadvantage because they have not received access to the information that was collected back then as part of an investigation into FBI media leaks known as “Arctic Haze.”Four search warrants targeted Daniel Richman, a Columbia University law professor who was an “FBI special government employee” and a close friend and onetime attorney for Comey. He has been revealed to be “person 3” in the Comey indictment.The indictment alleges that Comey told Richman to leak information to reporters and therefore he lied to the Senate Judiciary Committee when he denied having authorized any media leaks.But Comey’s lawyers say he was not referring to Richman at the time, and that he thought he was responding to a question about former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.Comey’s lawyers told the judge they had not been able to review the materials and data seized from Richman’s electronic devices, so they don’t know if any of it contained privileged information from back in 2019 and 2020, when Richman served as Comey’s personal attorney.“We’re going to fix that, and we’re going to fix that today,” Fitzpatrick said, questioning whether privileged information had been used to secure the indictment against Comey as well as in subsequent court filings.Nathaniel Lemons, an assistant U.S. attorney brought in from North Carolina to prosecute the case against Comey, said investigators reviewing the old search warrant materials stopped the process after finding information that might fall under attorney-client privilege with Richman.Lemons said the information seized from the old search warrants has been “isolated on a desk in FBI headquarters.”Fitzpatrick said he was admittedly putting an “unfair burden” on the defense because they will not have much time to review the discovery materials once handed over by the prosecution, due to the fast track that the case is on.“The defense is gravely concerned with the government’s conduct,” said Rebekah Donaleski, one of Comey’s attorneys.Another stumbling block for Comey’s team: Defense attorney Patrick Fitzgerald said he has not been able to review classified information in the case because of a delay in getting a security clearance.Comey attended the hearing but did not speak, and sat at the defense table with his attorneys: Fitzgerald — a former U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois — and Donaleski — a former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York — who did the bulk of the talking for the defense.Comey’s wife and his son-in-law, former assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Troy Edwards, Jr., who resigned from the U.S. Attorney’s office after Comey’s indictment, sat in the courtroom’s first row.At the prosecution table sat Halligan, who presented the case by herself to the grand jury.Halligan, a former White House aide and former Trump attorney, was named interim U.S. attorney despite her lack of prosecutorial experience after the previous U.S. Attorney, Erik Siebert, resigned under pressure to indict Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James. Halligan also indicted James, a frequent Trump target, who secured a nearly $500 million judgment against him and his companies before he was elected to a second term last year. A New York appeals court later tossed out the civil fraud penalty. James also has pleaded not guilty to charges she similarly describes as political retribution.Michael KosnarMichael Kosnar is the Justice Department Producer for NBC News. Zoë Richards contributed.
October 28, 2025
By Megan Lebowitz, Ryan Nobles and Kelly O’DonnellWASHINGTON — The Republican-led House Oversight Committee asserted in a report Tuesday that some executive actions former President Joe Biden signed by autopen, including his pardons, were “illegitimate” because he suffered from mental decline while in office and could have been unaware of their contents.The committee’s Republicans said in the report that they deemed as “void all executive actions signed by the autopen without proper, corresponding, contemporaneous, written approval traceable to the president’s own consent.” In a letter accompanying the report, Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., urged Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate Biden’s executive actions “to ascertain whether they were duly authorized by the President of the United States.” Before he left office, Biden issued several pardons for members of his family and key associates whom he said could be targets of political retribution by the Trump administration. Those included preemptive pardons for his two brothers and sister; Dr. Anthony Fauci; former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley; members of Congress involved in the Jan. 6 investigation and their staff, including now Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif.; and Washington police officers who testified before that panel. He had previously pardoned his son, Hunter Biden, of federal gun and tax charges after saying he would not do so.The report comes as the Justice Department investigates several of President Donald Trump’s opponents, sparking outrage from critics who argue that the prosecutions mark blatant retaliation against people whom the president dislikes. Trump has also asked Bondi to look into Biden’s cognitive fitness while in office and autopen use.Trump and other Republicans have long tried to cast doubts on the legitimacy of Biden’s use of the autopen, claiming he did not understand what he was authorizing — an allegation that has been routinely disputed by Democrats and the former president’s allies. Trump, too, has used an autopen, as have other presidents, and Comer has used a digital signature for letters and subpoenas in the investigation into Biden’s use of the autopen. A congressional committee does not have the constitutional authority to declare a presidential action null or void, but the findings could be used by the Department of Justice for an investigation or potentially as part of a legal challenge to certain executive decisions made by Biden, including pardons that he issued.The 100-page document also accuses the Biden administration and the former president’s allies of shielding his alleged cognitive decline from the American public. Comer asked Bondi to investigate actions from certain Biden aides, including former White House physician Dr. Kevin O’Connor, who invoked their Fifth Amendment right during their testimony. An attorney for O’Connor said during his deposition to the committee that “revealing confidential patient information would violate the most fundamental ethical duty of any physician.” The White House did not immediately respond to NBC News’ request for comment on the report, and a Justice Department spokesperson declined to comment.A spokesperson for Biden said in a statement that the House Oversight Committee’s “investigation into baseless claims has confirmed what has been clear from the start: President Biden made the decisions of his presidency.””There was no conspiracy, no cover-up, and no wrongdoing,” the spokesperson continued. “Congressional Republicans should stop focusing on political retribution and instead work to end the government shutdown.”The former president himself has rejected the committee’s claims, saying in a June statement, “Let me be clear: I made the decisions during my presidency.””I made the decisions about the pardons, executive orders, legislation, and proclamations,” he said at the time. “Any suggestion that I didn’t is ridiculous and false.”The former president also told The New York Times in July that he orally granted the pardons before they were signed with the autopen because of the large number of clemencies involved.Democrats on the House Oversight Committee remained highly skeptical of the Republicans’ report, arguing that it was a waste of the committee’s resources.The top Democrat on the committee, Rep. Robert Garcia of California, referred to the report as a “sham investigation” and argued that people who testified before the committee said “Biden fully executed his duties as President of the United States,” including the authorization of “every executive order, pardon, and use of the autopen.””While House Republicans obsess about President Biden’s health, they are ripping away healthcare from 17 million Americans and spiking premiums,” he said in the statement. “It’s clear the only person’s health that Republicans care about is Joe Biden’s.”Democrats have also questioned Trump’s health amid the release of vague summaries of his medical evaluations. Biden’s age and mental acuity, however, became a major concern within the Democratic Party after his disastrous debate performance against Trump last year ultimately led him op drop out of the 2024 race. Biden was diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer just months after leaving the White House.The House Oversight Committee report comes after the Justice Department has brought cases against several prominent Trump critics, including former FBI Director James Comey, New York Attorney General Letitia James, and former Trump national security adviser John Bolton, who have all pleaded not guilty to various charges against them. Those indictments were announced in the days and weeks after Trump pressured Bondi in a Truth Social post, claiming that several of his political foes were “guilty as hell” and saying “we can’t delay any longer, it’s killing our reputation and credibility.”In the post, Trump called for action to be taken against Comey and Schiff, and the Justice Department has launched a probe into the senator over allegations of mortgage fraud — which James is also facing in the case against her. Like James, Schiff has denied any wrongdoing.NBC News and other news outlets later reported that the Truth Social post was intended to be a direct message to Bondi rather than a public post. In a speech in Boston on Sunday, Biden argued the country is in one of “the worst of moments,” an apparent reference to the Trump administration’s policies and the level of political violence that has gripped the nation.”Over 50 years of elected public life, this is the worst I’ve seen it,” Biden said. He argued that “our very democracy is at stake” and urged Americans to “get re-engaged” and “fight like hell.”Megan LebowitzMegan Lebowitz is a politics reporter for NBC News.Ryan NoblesRyan Nobles is chief Capitol Hill correspondent for NBC News.Kelly O’DonnellChief Justice and National Affairs CorrespondentTara Prindiville contributed.
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