Tonight, President Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration and deportation push, an ice raid in Newark met with fierce criticism.

Military planes now sending migrants from the U.S. to Guatemala and the president's troop surge at the border.

New images of the first of 1,500 additional military personnel now on the ground. Plus President Trump targeting FEMA,

today visiting Hurricane ravaged North Carolina and suggesting scrapping the agency altogether,

and the critical vote on Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth. Communications blackout,

federal health agencies going quiet, even as bird flu is surging across

the country with egg prices on the rise.

Mega retailer Target rolling back its DEI initiatives, the growing corporate split

over diversity policies as companies like Apple and Costco stand firm.

Four Israeli hostages in Gaza set for release the names just provided as the tenuous

ceasefire holds.

Ralph Sanchez reports tonight from the Middle East.

The new message from the family of Lyle and Eric Menendez, what their cousin told

our Stephanie Gosk about the delay

in the effort for resentencing. And the good news in Washington, the pandas, meet the public. Tom

Costello, with some of the cutest ambassadors this country has ever seen.

This is NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt. Good evening and welcome. The new Trump

administration making visible strides tonight as it looks to demonstrate the seriousness of its

illegal immigration crackdown. Since yesterday, ICE agents carrying out several hundred arrests

of undocumented immigrants

with criminal histories.

Some rounded up during a workplace raid in Newark, New Jersey overnight that has drawn anger

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