This is the online version of From the Politics Desk, a daily newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the White House, Capitol Hill and the campaign trail. Ahead of this evening’s State of the Union address, Peter Nicholas dives into the economic dilemma President Donald Trump is … Read more
PHILADELPHIA — Some residents in the Philadelphia suburb of Quakertown are calling for the police chief to resign after a scuffle between police and high school students protesting immigration enforcement policies left several juveniles in custody for four days. Video circulating online shows an older man in street clothes approach a group of young protesters … Read more
Jeffrey Epstein was the subject of a previously undisclosed U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency investigation — a five-year-plus probe targeting him and 14 other individuals for suspicious money transfers possibly linked to illegal narcotics, a newly uncovered document in the Department of Justice’s Epstein files reveals. “DEA reporting indicates the above individuals are involved in illegitimate wire … Read more