I've been sober 8 years from um heroin and meth. It was a feeling when I drank it that kind of brought me back to how I was. This 2 oz herbal tonic called feel free is sold at gas stations and convenience stores.It's advertised as a mood and energy booster made with plant-based cava root andratom. What does do your body. The Food and Drug Administration has actually designated that specifically acts as an opioid.NBC News reached out to Botanic Tonics, the maker of Feel free, for a response to claims that th ...

Turning now to two of America's premier semiconductor makers and their massive deal with White House, which gives the US government a 15% cut of some of their profit from sales to China. That's right, the agreement involves Nvidia and AMD. The companies make chips that are crucial to the artificial intelligence boom.This unusual business move integrating the US government in private enterprise. So, with that said, we got to bring in the perfect guy. NBC News business and data correspondent Brian Chung.Good ...

Let's turn now to another breaking story our team's been following. At least one person's been killed in an explosion at a steel plant in Pennsylvania. And we've learned several others have also been injured.This happened at a US Steel facility just south of Pittsburgh. A county spokesperson tells NBC News an unknown number of people are still trapped somewhere inside that rubble. NBC's Maris Francis is following this one for us.Uh Maris, I know this is a fluid story, but what more do we know about this exp ...

Joining me now is Dr. . Paul Offett. He is the director of the vaccine education center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.Welcome Dr. . Offett. >> Thank you.>> If we remember the timeline of the development of the COVID vaccine, we went into lockdown in March of 2020. I believe the first shot in arms of healthcare workers was December of that year if I wasn't mistaken. That's less than a year.A traditional vaccine takes four to five years of development. Why is it so much faster. The typical production ...

Police in Puerto Rico are looking for surveillance video after US tourist was shot and killed while visiting the island for a Bad Bunny concert. Police say 25-year-old Kevin Mars was in a neighborhood called La Pera early yesterday morning. And they say it's known as a shanty town near Old San Juan and it has a reputation for violence.Police say that a fight broke out and Kevin was shot in the stomach. He died at the hospital. His family who lives in New York here, they're raising money to bring his body ba ...

A judge has denied the Justice Department's request to release grand jury materials from Galain Maxwell's sex trafficking case. Now, in his ruling, the judge says the materials do not identify anyone aside from Jeffrey Epstein or Maxwell as having sexual contact with a minor. All of this comes as the Trump administration is facing fallout for not releasing the full Epstein files. ...

That classic squawk, squeal, and chirp, it's soon going to be a thing of the past. AOL pulling the plug on its dialup service. The company announcing it will be discontinued at the end of September.That marks the end of a run that started back in 1991. And the 17 people left with dialup service. >> Probably really disappointed.>> I was going to say and all the people went, "Wait, there's still dialup service?" I guess there were there was >> there. ...

A moment of silence for the sound so familiar to some of us. Listen. [Music] [Applause] That's right. That's a blast from the past. At least a blast from my past.Uh AOL says it is shutting down its dialup internet service after more than 40 years. CNBC senior retail reporter Courtney Reagan joins me now. Uh Courtney, I didn't realize uh that that service still existed, right, the dialup in in the year of our lore 2025.And I imagine there are also some people who are watching right now who've never even hear ...

[Music] Welcome to NBC News Daily where we start right now with breaking news coming out of Pennsylvania. A rescue operation is currently underway and that's after an explosion at a US steel fabricing plant near Pittsburgh. Emergency crews are on the scene trying to rescue workers who are reportedly trapped under the rubble.Our NBC affiliate in that area is reporting that one person has died and one local hospital says it is currently treating two patients. A second health network says it's treating seven p ...

Right now, we are following breaking news out of Pennsylvania. That's where crews are on the scene after a reported explosion at the US Steel Claron Cokeworks, a steel fabricator plant. Our NBC affiliate in Pittsburgh is reporting that one person has died and the crews are searching for people that may be trapped inside that rubble.Officials have declared this a mass casualty incident, which allows for additional resources to be brought. ...