Tonight, the mass blast email and midnight deadline that has left federal workers in limbo.

Elon Musk posting an ultimatum for workers to justify their existence or reside.

The email calling for five bullet points explaining what they accomplished last week.

The growing power struggle as some top Trump cabinet secretaries tell their staff not to respond.

Now Doge is poised to use AI to evaluate the responses they get.

And federal workers furious, the flag hung upside down in Yosemite Park.

The haze-filled cabin of a Delta flight forced to return to the busiest airport in the world, what happened

and why they had to deploy the slides from the jet?

The Pope in critical condition, as the Vatican says he shows positive signs of improvement.

Three blood-soaked years of war in Ukraine alarm bells ringing in Europe as President Trump

angles for a deal, including Ukraine's minerals

to end the war.

Catching fire, can the music festival synonymous with chaos make a comeback?

Our questions for the founder about the upcoming sequel.

Why millions of women at high risk for breast cancer are increasingly having to fight their

insurance to get the screenings their doctors say they need.

This is NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt.

Good evening and welcome.

With the clock ticking and their government jobs potentially on the line, many federal

workers tonight are feeling like they are left

in an uncomfortable squeeze between Elon Musk and leaders of some of the agencies that he's looking

to downsize. Hours before a self-imposed deadline, the Trump administration now says its

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