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On the USS Eisenhower, pilots say they’re adopting new tactics to find and destroy Houthi weaponry hidden in Yemen that threatens cargo ships in the Red Sea.

Former President Donald Trump increased his lead over President Joe Biden in a new national NBC News poll, now up five points in a hypothetical general election match-up. NBC News’ Aaron Gilchrist has more on how those polled felt the candidates compared across a number of issues.

Senate negotiators on Sunday released the text of the much-anticipated border deal that lawmakers have been hashing out with White House officials since December, incorporating significant reforms, including a crackdown on asylum and parole. Talks have been ongoing for months as a bipartisan group of lawmakers — Sens. James Lankford, Krysten Sinema, and Chris Murphy … Read more

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Senators released a new, bipartisan immigration bill, seeking to reduce record-high border crossings and tighten the asylum system.

Kyrsten Sinema says she and others at work on bill that requires temporary closure if over 5,000 undocumented people cross a day Tough new measures being discussed on Capitol Hill to clamp down on migrants include a new federal requirement to “shut down” the Mexico border if more than 5,000 undocumented people cross into the … Read more

President Biden is having a difficult time competing with former President Trump on issues such as the economy and the border, despite recent job growth numbers and slowing inflation. Biden trails Trump, the front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination, by 23 points when voters were asked who would be a better candidate to handle the … Read more

Timing could benefit former President Trump as he faces down four criminal trials that are mired in controversy and legal obstacles while Election Day 2024 creeps closer, legal experts say. “Does it eventually get so late in the election-campaign calendar that it would be too unseemly to start trial? I would hope so,” former assistant … Read more

President Biden, on Sunday, sent a formal notification to Congress about executing airstrikes, saying his actions were “consistent” with the War Powers Resolution of 1973. Biden’s letter was sent just days after he directed U.S. military forces to attack targets at facilities in Iraq and Syria that are used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps … Read more

Music’s biggest night is here. Read the winners list here.