Editors' picks
A selection of the best reporting and most interesting stories from NBC News.
EXCLUSIVE
A deadly E. coli outbreak hit 15 states, but the FDA chose not to publicize it
The outbreak linked to romaine lettuce killed one person and sickened at least 88 more, including a 9-year-old boy who nearly died of kidney failure.
America's struggling wine industry is getting crushed by tariffs and Canada's retaliation
Even if the tariffs were to be reversed tomorrow, one wine business leader said, it would take "at least a year, if not longer, for my industry to recover.”
Dozens searched for a missing 2-year-old in the Arizona desert. Buford the dog was the real hero.
The 6-year-old Anatolian Pyrenees came home Tuesday morning with a toddler who'd gone missing the day before in a remote part of Arizona.
Immigration
Trump measures make life more difficult for immigrants — not just undocumented
By sharing IRS data with ICE, calling for registries and using other tactics, the administration has created a pressure campaign to get many to self-deport.
Why colleges like Harvard can't easily use endowments to replace federal funding
Endowments aren’t a simple replacement for government funding because of restrictions related to donor earmarking, legality and research priorities, experts say.
EXCLUSIVE
Inside an anti-vaccine autism summit in the age of RFK Jr.
Public health experts say the anti-vaccine views fronted by the HHS secretary are wrong and undermine trust in science. But a recent three-day gathering shows his followers still believe in him.
This Washington border county is desperate for Canadians
“There’s just no one around,” said a gas station owner in Whatcom County, where the economy depends on residents of British Columbia remaining eager to buy American.
The hottest new social scene might be a book club
Gen Zers and millennials are putting creative twists on book clubs, driven by a renewed love of reading and a growing desire for off-screen connection.
One of the country's leading Alzheimer's projects is in jeopardy
A pause to NIH funding has researchers scrambling for contingency plans at the University of Washington’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. The center’s brain bank is preserving more than 4,000 brains for research.
Mountains of trash and 'cat-size' rats as garbage workers strike in U.K.'s second-largest city
“You’re not getting little rats anymore,” one resident told NBC News. “They’re getting cat-size.”
Millennials have lived through economic uncertainty before. They're not nostalgic for more.
A generation accustomed to financial challenges is dealing with their recession fears through wry TikToks and by swapping cost-cutting suggestions online.
