NBC News

Search documents
Amid Israeli restrictions, the killing of journalists in Gaza limits stories told
NBC News· 2025-08-27 21:36
What does this say in a broader sense about the ability for a journalist to cover this war. >> Every day has been dangerous for our colleagues, our peers, our fellow reporters and producers and photographers in Gaza. But every time, and as we mentioned, the numbers are very high.Every time a journalist is killed, that is less information that we're getting. That is pictures left untaken. Those are stories untold.That is less information Israel is not letting in. and they control the borders of Gaza. They ar ...
Shooter left videos online, manifesto filled with with 'extremely violent thoughts'
NBC News· 2025-08-27 21:33
Uh, we know that the shooter's name is Robin Westman. At one point in his life, he was Robert Westman, 23 years old, if I'm correct. It sounded like he left a manifesto.What more do we know about him, Tom. Or about about them, I should say. Yeah, sure, Tom.So, we've gone through a whole host of videos that were left behind online as well as what he said. So the videos show a series of diaries, a series of writings, and he flips through them much the way if I were to show you a book and flip through it uh ri ...
Walz says 'strongest desire' is to make sure no one experience 'a day like this'
NBC News· 2025-08-27 21:27
And it's my strongest desire that no state, no community, no school ever experiences a day like this. Motans will not step away. We'll stand with this community.We'll redouble ourselves to do the best we can to understand what we can do to prevent any parent from having to receive the calls they received today from any school dedicated to children having to respond to a situation that as we said is unthinkable but that's all too common not just in Minnesota, but across this country. It's Minnesota's day tod ...
Hacker uses AI chatbot to hack at least 17 companies
NBC News· 2025-08-27 21:26
A hacker used an AI chatbot to hack at least 17 companies. Anthropic, the company behind the chatbot, Claude, said in a report that the hacker convinced Claude code to automate the whole operation from finding targets, hacking them, and then writing ransom notes. Anthropic didn't say which companies were targeted or the how the hacker was able to take advantage of the chatbot, but noted that it added more safeguards to clawed. ...
Minneapolis mayor defends trans community after shooting at Catholic school
NBC News· 2025-08-27 21:16
I have heard about a whole lot of hate that's being directed at our trans community. Anybody who is using this as an opportunity to villainize our trans community or any other community out there has lost their sense of common humanity. We should not be operating out of a place of hate for anyone. We should be operating from a place of love for our kids.Kids died today. This needs to be about. ...
Witness describes seeing kids come out from scene of Minneapolis shooting
NBC News· 2025-08-27 20:59
I'm I was thankful to see kids coming out unharmed, safe, but just I'm the looks on some of their faces. I I I just the screams coming from the moms who didn't know where their kids are. I just that I I don't even I It was just gut-wrenching.Yeah, there you see the videos online, but it it does not compare to seeing it and witnessing it in. ...
Minneapolis shooter had manifesto timed to post on YouTube, officials say
NBC News· 2025-08-27 20:45
There was a rifle, a shotgun, and a pistol. All three had been lawfully purchased by the shooter. At this stage, we believe that the shooter had acted alone.There is no indication of other suspects directly involved in carrying out this attack. Our investigators are working with other agencies in the process of executing four search warrants. One is for the church itself where this crime occurred.The other three are residents residences nearby in the metro that are related to this shooter. Additional firear ...
Gov. Walz 'will stand with this community' after shooting
NBC News· 2025-08-27 20:30
A community behind us, Annunciation, Church and School, committed academics, service and Catholic values filled with the first days of school of beautiful children going to learn those values, share with their teachers and their classmates. And instead of that joy and that curiosity and that learning, they were met with evil and horror and death. And we often come to these and say these unspeakable tragedies or there's no words for this. There shouldn't be words for these types of incidents because they sho ...
Department of Transportation to take over D.C.'s Union Station
NBC News· 2025-08-27 20:00
The latest move in the president's federal takeover of the nation's capital, Washington DC, involves one of the biggest transit hubs in the country. This morning, transportation secretary Shawn Duffy announced the Trump administration will take over the management of Washington's Union Station. If you've been there, that station, you know, is a hub for Amtrak and also the city's metro lines, their subway, and it sits just a half a mile from the US capital.NBC News reporter Gary Grumbach joins us now from Wa ...
FDA approves Covid shots for the fall, but with new restrictions
NBC News· 2025-08-27 19:56
The Food and Drug Administration has approved the next round of COVID shots for the fall, but only for a more limited group of people. The updated vaccine is approved for adults 65 and older. The FDA also gave the green light for kids and adults with at least one medical condition that puts them at risk of severe illness.Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. . announced the approval in a post on X today.The new restrictions are likely to affect what insurance covers, especially for peopl ...