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Editors' picks

A selection of the best reporting and most interesting stories from NBC News.

After a month held in a migrant camp, many deportees from the U.S. still have no home and few realistic choices.
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Alabama's seafood capital is struggling as cheap imported shrimp floods the U.S. market. Many hope Trump's tariffs will extend them a lifeline.
A protester holds a placard saying "U.S.A. IS A BAD ALLY"
Trump's push to take over Greenland is fueling a major Danish boycott of American-made goods and services in favor of homegrown products.
Jazz Chisholm Jr.
No team is crushing the ball like the Yankees, and it's down to a physicist's redesign: Bats shaped like torpedoes.

Karen Wandel's father, Libero Marinelli, Jr., was a widowed Army veteran.
Libero Marinelli Jr.’s journey from a public hospital to a for-profit body broker demonstrates the peril of an industry with little regulation, an NBC News investigation found.
A disgraced chiropractor found a new job selling bodies. In an industry with few guardrails, he soon faced accusations of mishandling human remains.
The University of North Texas Health Science Center built a flourishing business dissecting and exporting corpses.
The Health Science Center had received about 2,350 unclaimed bodies in the past five years. More than 830 of them were selected for use.
Survivors said they were disturbed and heartbroken to learn that their loved ones’ bodies may have been studied.

Dateline

2d ago

Dateline

Karen Read put family of Boston officer boyfriend 'through hell,' relative says ahead of retrial

A relative of the Boston police officer whose death Read has been charged with said the family is prepared for a retrial. “No matter what we have to deal with, justice for Johnny,” she said.
Photo Illustration: Karen Read and John O'Keefe
Photo Illustration: Karen Read and John O'Keefe
5d ago

A Vietnam vet found a dream senior living community. Then new owners jacked up the rent by 365%.

Residents of senior living facilities typically expect to live out their remaining years when they buy into a community. But a new dynamic in the industry is altering the deals these residents agreed to.
Martha Bray
Martha Bray

A battle over religion and schools in Oklahoma could decide the future of the First Amendment

Conservative religious activists want to dismantle the longtime understanding of the separation of church and state — and the Supreme Court may be on board.
Superintendent Ryan Walters
Superintendent Ryan Walters

Immigration

5d ago

Immigration

Trump's immigration policies could wreak havoc on this rural town powered by mushroom farms

Farmers rely on year-round help from immigrants to harvest mushrooms. While workers’ immigration status may vary, deportations could destroy the town as they know it.
5d ago

Denied, deported, detained: U.S. border incidents have travelers thinking twice

Potential U.S. visitors are increasingly uncertain about traveling to America, after a number of high-profile detentions in the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration.
U.S. Supreme Court Partially Upholds Trump Administration Travel Ban
U.S. Supreme Court Partially Upholds Trump Administration Travel Ban
6d ago

Inside the Tampa Bay Rays' rush to transform a spring training field to an MLB ballpark

The team announced in November it would play its 2025 season at George M. Steinbrenner Field following the devastation from Hurricane Milton.
A banner Steinbrenner Field in Tampa, Fla., thanks the New York Yankees.
A banner Steinbrenner Field in Tampa, Fla., thanks the New York Yankees.
7d ago

At Columbia, Trump's crackdown chills a fervent campus

A year after mass protests rocked the university, students say protesting on campus has become too “dangerous.”
The Columbia University encampment in 2024; an inset of the Columbia University library on March 4 with an emptier quad.
The Columbia University encampment in 2024; an inset of the Columbia University library on March 4 with an emptier quad.

EXCLUSIVE

7d ago

EXCLUSIVE

Salvation Army dismissed warnings, allowing a music director to abuse a girl for years, lawsuit says

Joel Collier is accused of grooming and sexually abusing Riley Neville beginning when she was 14 and attending music camps where he taught, according to a new lawsuit.
Riley Neville
Riley Neville
8d ago

In Wyoming, DOGE cuts spark fears of impacts to veterans in crisis

An office manager at a VA center in Wyoming, where the veteran suicide rate is 50% higher than the national average, was fired last month despite a glowing job review.
Cheyenne National Cemetery in Wyoming.
Cheyenne National Cemetery in Wyoming.

The high-stakes geopolitical game unfolding in the Baltic Sea

NBC News joined a NATO flotilla as it sailed the icy sea hunting Russian saboteurs accused of targeting undersea cables.
BC News' Raf Sanchez joins a newly-launched NATO naval patrol in the Baltic Sea hunting for Russian cable cutters.
BC News' Raf Sanchez joins a newly-launched NATO naval patrol in the Baltic Sea hunting for Russian cable cutters.
9d ago

23andMe bankruptcy filing sparks privacy fears as DNA data of millions goes up for sale

“Folks have absolutely no say in where their data is going to go,” said Tazin Khan, the CEO of the nonprofit Cyber Collective, which advocates for privacy rights and cybersecurity for marginalized people.
A 23andMe Ancestry + Traits Service DNA kit
A 23andMe Ancestry + Traits Service DNA kit