NEW YORK (AP) — During this brutal news year, Lester Holt has concluded that telling stories isn't enough.
The “NBC Nightly News” anchor frequently ends his broadcasts now with commentaries,...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President-elect Joe Biden (all times local):
7:15 p.m.
Some of Joe Biden’s former colleagues in the Senate who are hoping for a spot in his...
NEW YORK (AP) — The broadcast networks might want to consider promoting David Muir, Lester Holt and Norah O'Donnell, at least in the summer months.
NEW YORK (AP) — In the NBC “Nightly News” inaugural kids edition, Sadie of Morristown, New Jersey, posed the question that everyone wishes had an answer.
Celebrity birthdays for the week of March 8-14:
March 8: Jazz saxophonist George Coleman is 85. Actress Sue Ane Langdon is 84. Songwriter Carole Bayer Sager is 76. Actor-director Micky...
NEW YORK (AP) — The Senate's vote to acquit President Donald Trump not only ended the impeachment saga Wednesday, it shut off the source of hours of programming for television news...
NEW YORK (AP) — David Muir is celebrating his fifth anniversary as "World News Tonight" anchor with something that's rare in television: a larger audience.
NEW YORK (AP) — Lester Holt laughed when his colleagues proposed that he spend a couple of nights locked up in the Louisiana State Penitentiary for an NBC News report on criminal justice...
PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona State University is awarding its 2019 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism to Lester Holt, news anchor for NBC.
NEW YORK (AP) — "Each man shall make an opening statement of approximately eight minutes' duration," CBS-TV moderator Howard K. Smith intoned as John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon began the...
NEW YORK (AP) — NBC News' coverage of the first Democratic debate of the 2020 campaign season was hit by a technical glitch that led President Donald Trump to tweet that the network "should be...
NEW YORK (AP) — Don't envy NBC News executive Rashida Jones, who is behind this week's inaugural Democratic presidential debate and will have to juggle 20 candidates, five news personalities and,...
NEW YORK (AP) — Lester Holt and four of his NBC News colleagues will share moderating duties for the first debate of 2020 Democratic presidential contenders.
CHICAGO (AP) — Actor Jussie Smollett is accused of staging a racist, anti-gay attack on himself in Chicago in January in a celebrity scandal that has captured attention online and in the media....
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is making a baseless charge that NBC News somehow doctored an interview in which he cites the Russia investigation as a factor behind firing FBI director James Comey.
In a tweet Thursday, Trump claims that NBC anchor Lester Holt was "caught fudging" the May 2017 interview.
No evidence has been put forward by Trump or the White House showing that.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Rapper Meek Mill said Wednesday that now that he's out of prison, a lot of people facing similar battles with the criminal justice system are depending on him.
"I got a lot of responsibility," he said in an interview with Lester Holt of NBC Nightly News.
He said the men counting on him are "going through the same thing I'm going through."
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Latest on rapper Meek Mill's release from prison while he appeals drug and gun convictions (all times local):
6:25 p.m.
Rapper Meek Mill says he believes a lot of important people are depending on him now that he's out of prison.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Rapper Meek Mill says he always thought ten years of probation would bring him back to prison.
Mill spoke to news anchor Lester Holt from a Pennsylvania prison in a phone interview that aired Thursday on "NBC Nightly News."
The Philadelphia-born rapper, whose real name is Robert Rihmeek Williams, is fighting for release while appealing a two- to four-year sentence for a probation violation.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — ABC says it will air a special interview with James Comey in April before the former FBI director's book is released.
The network announced the interview will air on a "20/20" special on April 15. The interview will be conducted by "ABC News" anchor George Stephanopoulous.
The network's announcement, which came during its airing of the Academy Awards, declared "nothing's off limits."
NEW YORK (AP) — Noting that the FBI is "under intense scrutiny," James Comey's publisher is moving up the release date of his memoir "A Higher Loyalty."
NEW YORK (AP) — The Weather Channel plans to tally at least 188 consecutive live hours on Hurricane Harvey and its aftermath into this weekend — and the network's coverage is not just for people fascinated by eye walls and occluded fronts.
NEW YORK (AP) — Television networks returned to the scene of an old obsession by casting aside regular daytime programming Thursday to cover O.J. Simpson's parole hearing in Nevada on an armed robbery conviction.
NEW YORK (AP) — Watching a White House briefing in his office, Lester Holt said he had to walk away when exasperated reporter Brian Karem recently confronted Sarah Huckabee Sanders about the Trump administration's hostility toward the press. Their exchange almost made him physically ill.
Holt's no fan of press bashing, but fighting back that way is decidedly not his style.
NEW YORK (AP) — Melissa McCarthy once again brought comic spice plus Spicer to "Saturday Night Live."
After a spate of guest appearances mocking White House press secretary Sean Spicer in recent weeks, she was back on Saturday's edition of the NBC satire show to preside as host.
One sketch featured McCarthy as the hot-tempered Spicer commandeering his motorized podium through the streets of midtown Manhattan - a sequence spotted by the media on Friday while it was being filmed.
NEW YORK (AP) — Actress Faye Dunaway says she thought co-presenter Warren Beatty was joking when he paused before showing her the envelope that should have contained the Oscar's best picture winner.
Dunaway tells Lester Holt on NBC Nightly News she thought Beatty was stalling for effect.
NEW YORK (AP) — A 7-year-old boy's mention of Lester Holt to a local news reporter in Portland, Oregon, has earned him a chance to meet his favorite news anchor.
After mentioning Holt to KGW-TV reporter Drew Carney on air earlier this month, the boy told Carney, "usually you see him more on the news than you."
NEW YORK (AP) — More than one competition has tightened with the approach of Election Day.
Anchors David Muir and Lester Holt are in the midst of a spirited competition for first place in television's evening news ratings. After several years in second, ABC's "World News Tonight" with Muir has lately pulled even with NBC's "Nightly News" and some weeks a relative handful of viewers separate the shows.
NEW YORK (AP) — Moderators Anderson Cooper and Martha Raddatz teamed to ask sharp questions of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton and to keep them corralled during many contentious exchanges during the second presidential debate.
Sometimes those efforts drew the ire of Trump. "Nice," he said. "One on three."
NEW YORK (AP) — Moderators Anderson Cooper and Martha Raddatz teamed to ask sharp questions of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton Sunday night and to keep them corralled during many contentious exchanges during the second presidential debate.
Sometimes those efforts drew the ire of Trump. "Nice," he said. "One on three."
NEW YORK (AP) — After initially taking a hands-off approach to the two strong-willed presidential candidates before him, NBC's Lester Holt more aggressively challenged Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump as the general election's first debate wore on and he warmed to the often-thankless role of moderator.
WASHINGTON (AP) — It was the opening Hillary Clinton had been waiting for all night.
Late in Monday's debate, when the candidates each had notched their points on trade, taxes, crime and more, the talk turned to Clinton's stamina, brought to the fore by her recent bout of pneumonia.
Moderator Lester Holt of NBC asked Trump what he had meant by questioning whether Clinton had a "presidential look."
Trump didn't back off: "She doesn't have the look," he reaffirmed. "She doesn't have the stamina."
WASHINGTON (AP) — It was the opening Hillary Clinton had been waiting for all night.
Late in Monday's debate, when the candidates each had notched their points on trade, taxes, crime and more, the talk turned to Clinton's stamina, brought to the fore by her recent bout of pneumonia.
Moderator Lester Holt of NBC asked Trump what he had meant by questioning whether Clinton had a "presidential look."
Trump didn't back off: "She doesn't have the look," he reaffirmed. "She doesn't have the stamina."
NEW YORK (AP) — NBC's Lester Holt struggled to keep control of the first debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, learning the dangers of fact-checking in the midst of a tense confrontation being viewed by tens of millions of people.