Influential US skateboarder Marc Johnson dies aged 49: ‘Everything he did was art’

Tributes pour in from across skateboarding world Johnson was Thrasher’s 2007 skater of the year Marc Johnson, the influential professional skateboarder whose inventive street style and Bay Area roots helped define modern street skating, has died at the age of 49. Johnson’s death was announced in a statement attributed to longtime friend and fellow professional … Read more

Kornacki: You don’t see incumbents ‘lose by this kind of margin every day’ after Cornyn defeat

NBC News Chief Data Analyst Steve Kornacki joins Meet the Press NOW to break down results from the Republican primary runoff in Texas where Attorney General Ken Paxton beat four-term incumbent Sen. John Cornyn. NBC News White House Correspondent Monica Alba, Phil Prazan, KXAS’s “Lone Star Politics” co-anchor, and Jessica Taylor, the Cook Political Report … Read more

Trump administration has paid $20bn in tariff refunds, with at least $65bn more to come

Refunds came after the supreme court ruled Trump overstepped his authority in enacting sweeping tariffs US importers are expected to receive $85bn in tariff refunds after the supreme court struck down Donald Trump’s tariffs in February, according to US Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the agency that collects tariffs. Importers and shippers have so far … Read more

DOJ sues UCLA over alleged ‘Judenrein’ conditions during anti-Israel encampment

The Justice Department sued the University of California, Los Angeles, on Monday, accusing the university of allowing Jewish students to face a “hostile educational environment” during months of anti-Israel protests and encampment unrest that left students assaulted, blocked from campus buildings and fearful of attending class. “The occupiers largely succeeded in their goal of making … Read more

NASA chief pulls back curtain on Trump UFO files after bizarre finds surface in buried fed records

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said the Trump administration’s newly declassified UAP files are exposing years of strange aerial sightings that government agencies failed to seriously dig into — even if the records do not point to recovered alien remains or ships.  “What’s being surfaced isn’t crashed ships or alien bodies, but real unexplained phenomena,” Isaacman … Read more

Trump: Iran is ‘negotiating on fumes’ as deal remains unclear

President Donald Trump said he only plans to make a good deal with Iran, or not make a deal at all, as Iranian state media released a draft of what they said was an alleged peace deal outline. NBC News’ Monica Alba reports that the White House called the released memorandum a “fabrication.”