The Department of Homeland Security shut down as Trump and Democrats continued to discuss changes to U.S. immigration enforcement after the Minneapolis shootings.

Preston Rakovsky is going viral online for his intimate conversations with strangers about their thoughts on love. NBC News' Gadi Schwartz asks Rakovsky about his inspiration behind the project and his hope for the future. 

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Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos tells NBC News investigators are pursuing “good leads” in the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie and denied reports of tension with the FBI. NBC News' Liz Kreutz reports.

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A Russian family sought asylum in the United States. In the Dilley ICE detention center in Texas, they say their children endured worms in the food and hourslong waits for medication.

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A federal prosecutor is seeking to dismiss charges against two men involved in what authorities described as a violent altercation with immigration agents in Minneapolis last month.

American Ilia Malinin struggled through his free skate, falling twice and failing to medal. He was the heavy favorite for gold but told reporters after there is nothing like Olympic pressure. NBC News’ Tom Llamas reports.

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Alpine skier Lucas Pinheiro Braathen and skeleton competitor Nicole Rocha Silveira, both from Brazil, will compete this weekend in the Milan Cortina Games.

Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych remains barred from Olympic competition, the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled Friday, upholding his earlier disqualification for wearing a “helmet of remembrance” for his countrymen killed by Russia

Inflation rose just 0.2% in January from December and fell to 2.4% on an annual basis. Both readings were less than economists expected. NBC News' Allie Canal reports on why this could be a good sign for consumers.

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Choreographer Benoît Richaud is next to seemingly every Olympic figure skater after they compete and hear their scores read aloud. And he has the jackets to prove it.

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The FBI is releasing new identifying details about the man seen in the doorbell camera videos from Nancy Guthrie’s front door. It comes as the FBI has doubled the reward to $100,000 for any information that leads to the missing 84-year-old. NBC’s Liz Kreutz reports and Tom Winter joins TODAY with analysis.

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Amazon has dropped plans to partner its Ring doorbell cameras with the police surveillance tech company Flock Safety, the companies said Thursday, days after Amazon aired a controversial ad for Ring that some viewed as depicting the technology as a threat to privacy

New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez talks about why he filed a lawsuit against Meta over allegations of sexual exploitation of children saying the platform is not a "safe space" for underage users. 

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As the agonizing search for Nancy Guthrie enters its 12th day, today, law enforcement set up a tent covering Nancy Guthrie’s porch, put out another plea for video near her house, and said gloves and other evidence found near her home have been sent to be analyzed. NBC News’ Liz Kreutz has the latest on the investigation.

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Snowboarder Chloe Kim went for her third straight Olympic gold in halfpipe, but was beaten out by a teenager from South Korea. Kim won silver. Team USA’s hockey team, which is made up entirely of NHL players, easily won their first game of the Olympics against Latvia. NBC News’ Tom Llamas reports.

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Madison Chock and Evan Bates won a silver medal in ice dance on Wednesday. Now, the French judge’s scoring has come under scrutiny. NBC News’ Tom Llamas spoke with Chock and Bates, who said they were proud of their performance and grateful for the support from their fans.

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MILAN — For weeks before the Milan Cortina Olympics opened, a central fascination was whether the still-under-construction home of ice hockey, Santagiulia Arena, would be ready.

Tina and Milo, the mascots from the 2026 Winter Olympics and Paralympics, have been impossible to purchase in Italy.

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Madison Chock and Evan Bates put up their best individual performance in the Olympics on Wednesday, coming away with a silver medal in figure skating’s ice dance competition.

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A company that makes toys powered by artificial intelligence exposed snippets of thousands of conversations its toys had with children, according to Sens.

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Chloe Kim could become the first snowboarder to claim three straight gold medals when she competes Friday at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.

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The FBI’s publication of videos from Nancy Guthrie’s Google Nest doorbell camera has reinvigorated questions that have dogged Big Tech companies as they have become a larger part of people’s daily lives: How much data are these devices collecting?

Border czar Tom Homan held a press conference to announce that the Trump administration would be concluding Operation Metro Surge, the immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota.

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The latest release of Epstein files opened a window into the extensive documented relationship Bannon and Epstein shared over about 18 months.

A pro-artificial intelligence super PAC is preparing to spend about $5 million to help GOP Rep.

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In her first interview since taking office after the Trump administration's ouster of Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela's interim President Delcy Rodríguez is sitting down exclusively with Meet the Press moderator Kristen Welker to talk about the future of the country and its relationship with the United States. "I can tell you that President Nicolás Maduro is the legitimate president," she says. It comes as U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright holds the first official talks with Rodríguez.

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Alex Bores, a New York state lawmaker at the center of the political fight over the future of artificial intelligence, released an eight-point plan for a national AI framework Wednesday, wading further into the issue that is defining his campaign for Congress

Without Trump at the top of the ticket, Republicans are feeling emboldened to push back on policies that might cost them at the ballot box.

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is dramatically expanding an effort to revoke U.S. citizenship for foreign-born Americans as it works to curb immigration, according to two people familiar with the plans

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CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — A Ukrainian athlete who was disqualified from the Winter Olympics on Thursday over his insistence on wearing a helmet honoring people killed in his country's war with Russia said he refused to back down because there are things that are "more important than medals.”Follow along for live updatesThe International Olympic Committee said in a statement early Thursday that skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych, the Ukrainian flag bearer, was "not allowed to participate

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Google says its flagship AI chatbot, Gemini, has been inundated by “commercially motivated” actors who are trying to clone the chatbot.

Former men's figure skating Olympian Scott Hamilton talked to NBC News' Tom Llamas about Madison Chock and Evan Bates silver medal, Ilia Malinin's backflip performance and more from the Games. 

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LOS ANGELES — The head of Instagram, Adam Mosseri, defended the platform in court Wednesday, arguing that social media platforms are not intentionally engineered to be addictive.

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On Day 5 of the Milan Cortina Olympics, Team USA racked up another five medals. Married ice dancers Madison Chock and Evan Bates won silver, while Jordan Stolz won gold in his debut in Milan. NBC News’ Tom Llamas reports.

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Elon Musk addressed recent departures of xAI staff in a X post, explaining that the company was recently “reorganized” to “improve the speed of execution.”

ed together on a number of bipartisan initiatives, are wading into the policy fight weeks after President Donald Trump — who has made the rapid development of artificial intelligence and the data center buildout a core piece of his economic agenda — said his administration was working to ensure consumers would not face utility bill increases in conjunction.“I never want Americans to pay higher Electricity bills because of Data Centers,” Trump posted to Truth Social last month, adding, ��

Artificial intelligence company Anthropic announced that it will ensure consumer electricity costs remain steady as it expands its data center footprint.

Instagram head Adam Mosseri testified in the social media addiction trial in Los Angeles. NBC News' Brian Cheung and Danny Cevallos have details on what questioning Mosseri faced and what could come next in the trial for Meta and YouTube.

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In a social media post following her harrowing crash at the Milan Cortina Olympics, Lindsey Vonn said she is already on the road to recovery.

The big questions baffling investigators, law enforcement experts and the millions of Americans following the Nancy Guthrie case.

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Officials detained and then released a man in connection with the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of Savannah Guthrie, according to The New York Times. It comes after chilling images and video were released by the FBI of an armed person wearing a mask and gloves outside Nancy Guthrie’s home. NBC’s Liz Kreutz reports and law enforcement correspondent Tom Winter and former FBI special agent Bryanna Fox joins TODAY with analysis.

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Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo arrived in the Dolomites under a mountain of pressure.

Support for President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda is in free fall in early 2026 after federal immigration agents shot and killed two Americans last month, according to the new NBC News Decision Desk Poll powered by SurveyMonkey

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A person was detained for questioning in relation to the kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie. NBC News' Tom Winter reports on what this could mean for the case and if the detainment brings the investigation any closer to finding Guthrie. 

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Shortly after Nancy Guthrie disappeared, Pima County, Arizona, Sheriff Chris Nanos said that a camera affixed to her door had been disconnected, that she did not have a subscription that would have saved video and that investigators were trying to work with a tech company on the difficult forensic task of recovering any video

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The FBI launched a new website devoted to all of the elements that they have released in the disappearance case of Nancy Guthrie. NBC News’ Kelly O'Donnell details how this may help the investigation. 

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NBC News’ Liz Kreutz explains why authorities are able to release photos and videos of a potential subject in Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance, more than a week after she was reported missing.

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A masked and armed person appeared to tamper with the camera at Nancy Guthrie's front door on the morning she disappeared from her Arizona home more than a week ago, according to images released Tuesday by the FBI

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Savannah Guthrie posted a new video thanking the public for their ongoing thoughts and prayers as the search continues for her mother, who has been missing for 10 days. “We are at an hour of desperation and we need your help,” she said.

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The biggest names in tech, including Google and Instagram's parent company, Meta, are facing landmark trials with claims that their platforms are deliberately designed to be addictive and that they fail to keep kids safe from harmful content and online predators. NBC’s Laura Jarrett reports for TODAY.

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