Tonight President Biden signing a sweeping executive action on security at the US

southern border facing mounting criticism over immigration the president

making his most aggressive move yet to control the border.

Mr. Biden saying he's doing, quote, what Republicans in Congress refuse to do.

A power, the new order gives him just weeks before his first debate with Donald Trump.

Also tonight opening statements in Hunter Biden's federal gun trial,

the text messages the prosecution showed to the jury

taken from his purported laptop and what the defense is saying about his past drug use

and purchase of a firearm. The nationwide disruptions impacting AT&T and and Verizon customers.

What's causing it?

The first major heat wave of 2024

triple-digit temperatures in the west were tracking it.

Attorney General Merrick Garland defiant on Capitol Hill telling Republicans I

will not be intimidated as they demand tapes of President Biden's interview

with Special Counsel Robert Herr. Our NBC News exclusive the new electric vehicles rolling off

GM's assembly line. The CEO and why GM is still betting big on EVs despite a

sales slowdown and after he stole the show from his

congressman dad the six-year-old telling us about his viral moment of fame.

This is NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt. Good evening and welcome President Biden tonight, sidestepping Congress and taking his own action to sharply tighten controls at the southern border.

With his signature alone, the president using his executive authority to shut down asylum requests

when the average daily number of illegal

crossings between ports of entry exceeds 2,500. Tonight that average number tops

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