Retailers aren’t looking too eager to hire lately. Many are girding for tariffs as sales slow, store closures mount and consumers shop more online.source

The Trump administration announced it would cancel approximately $400 million in federal grants to Columbia due to “inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students.”source

The U.S. added 151,000 jobs in February as employers continued making hires while the federal government slashed its workforce by 10,000.source

Dateline’s Keith Morrison shares a preview of his exclusive, and bizarre, jailhouse interview with the infamous ‘doomsday mom’ Lori Vallow. “She came in and she had her own agenda. It was a very interesting tennis match we had,” he says. It airs Friday on NBC.source

Stocks have taken a hit this week as Trump implemented — and then walked back — the sweeping tariffs.source

Changes this year to Tricare, the military’s health care program, have brought cascading disruptions to millions of service members and network providers nationwide.source

They are designed to text and talk like real people but they are chatbots powered by artificial intelligence. More and more people are using them as companions, some sharing their most intimate thoughts. Privacy experts now are raising the alarm on where that information is going. NBC News’ Erin McLaughlin reports. source

In the debut episode of his new podcast, California Gov. Gavin Newsom said trans athletes in women’s sports is “deeply unfair.”source

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday unveiled a new indictment against Sean “Diddy” Combs accusing the hip-hop mogul of forcing employees to work long hours and threatening to punish those who did not assist in his two-decade sex trafficking scheme.source