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  • Ex-government employee charged with submitting false tips alleging coworkers' involvement in Capitol riot

    A former government employee was charged this week with submitting false tips about ex-colleagues to the FBI's tip line investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, according to court documents unsealed Friday. Miguel Zapata was arrested Thursday in Chantilly, Virginia, in connection with providing materially false statements to law enforcement, according to an arrest warrant. Zapata submitted at least seven anonymous tips via the FBI's tip portal from February to April of 2021 that accused former...

  • Catastrophic flooding forces rescues and evacuations in South Texas

    Dangerous flooding hit parts of South Texas after a foot or more of rain fell in some areas. More than 10 million people remained under flood alerts. NBC News' Kathy Park reports.

  • Los Angeles unleashes a new weapon in its fight against mosquitoes: More mosquitoes

    In Los Angeles, those who wage war on mosquitoes are adding a weapon to their arsenal: more mosquitoes. The Greater Los Angeles County Vector Control District on Thursday launched a pilot program to release tens of thousands of irradiated, lab-raised mosquitoes into the local environment. These mosquitoes are all male and have been sterilized by the radiation, so the hope is that they will find wild female mates and impregnate them with dead-end sperm, rendering the resulting eggs worthless. ...

  • Pro-Palestinian protest at Ole Miss ends in heated confrontation

    A group of pro-Palestinian protesters at the University of Mississippi became surrounded by a larger and rowdy group of counterprotesters Thursday, and had to be escorted into a building by police. Videos of the protest posted on social media show the larger crowd, of about 200 seemingly mostly white young people, surrounding and shouting down the multi-racial group of between 30 and 60 pro-Palestinian protesters. Another video showed the counterprotesters singing “The Star-Spangled Banner” to...

  • UT Austin students get civil rights group, online help for Latinx Graduation canceled by DEI cuts

    A graduation ceremony that celebrates Latino students’ culture at the University of Texas at Austin will go forward off campus, despite cuts to diversity programs that left the event unfunded. The cancelled Latinx Graduation will take place thanks in part to the League of United Latin American Citizens, the nation's oldest Latino civil rights group, and online donations. UT cut off funding for the symbolic Latinx Graduation and graduations for other groups as part of its eradication of...

  • How fertility doctor Scott Sills tried to hide his wife Susann's murder

    Theresa Neubauer was at work five years ago at a Georgia university when she got a phone call that stunned her. Her son-in-law — a prominent fertility doctor who’d authored or edited several medical books — had just been arrested on suspicion of murder in the mysterious death of her daughter, Susann Sills, 45. Susann’s body had been found at the bottom of a staircase in the couple's suburban Southern California home in 2016. Up until that April 2019 phone call, Neubauer said, her family hadn’t...

  • Scattered thunderstorms possible all weekend

    MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Afternoon thunderstorms are likely throughout this weekend around Middle Georgia as a summer pattern sets in. This Evening and Tonight Off and on isolated storms will persist around the region with the eastern half of Middle Georgia most likely to see them. Outside of that skies are partly to mostly cloudy as temperatures stay in the

  • Georgia Future Educator Signing Day celebrated at William S. Hutchings College and Career Academy

    MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Georgia Future Educator Signing Day was celebrated on Friday at William S. Hutchings College and Career Academy. Students from the Teaching as a Profession Pathway signed their non-legally binding commitment to pursue a teaching career after high school. The event was themed “In My Teaching Era,” and families and staff were present as administrators spoke about

  • Decision 2024: Meet Noah Harbuck, candidate for Georgia House District 145, Republican Primary

    MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Three Democrat and three Republican candidates are qualified for the upcoming Georgia House District 145 election. De’Ron Rogers, Nancy Hicks, and Noah Harbuck are competing to win the Republican nomination in the upcoming primary election. 41NBC’s Monica Diaz-Meek spoke with each candidate ahead of the May 21 election. Candidate name: Noah Harbuck Running for: Georgia House District

  • Tears on the stand and Trump's hands in everything: Here's what you missed on Day 11 of Trump's hush money trial

    In bombshell testimony Friday, Hope Hicks relayed cascading concerns inside Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign as a lewd tape and allegations that he had had affairs with a Playboy model and a porn star emerged in the waning days of the election. A close aide to Trump who spoke daily with him, Hicks said Trump’s campaign feared the potential ramifications of the Hollywood Access tape on the pending election. She also testified that Trump did not want the newspaper delivered to his home on...

  • Meet the Press NOW — May 3

    Talks continue over a deal to free hostages held by Hamas in Gaza. Executive Director of the World Food Programme Cindy McCain sits down with Kristen Welker and warns of a “full-blown famine” in Northern Gaza. Hope Hicks testifies at former President Trump’s hush money trial. The Justice Department indictments for Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) and his wife for bribery. Rhonda Colvin, former Rep. Joe Crowley (D-N.Y.) and Lance Trover join the Meet the Press NOW roundtable.

  • The class of 2024 faces a tougher job market than last year's, but it could be worse.

    College seniors will don graduation gowns this month before jumping into a job market that isn’t quite as hungry for their diplomas as it is for skills learned outside of four-year schools. Employers added 175,000 jobs in April, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday, below analysts’ expectations and a sign that hiring is slowing down across the economy. Some of the strongest gains were in health care, retail and the transportation and warehousing sector — industries where part-time and...