President Donald Trump announced Wednesday night that nationals from 12 countries would be banned from entering the United States starting on Monday.
Trump said that the ban, which primarily targets countries in Africa and the Middle East, was necessary to preserve national security and prevent terrorism in the U.S.
“As President, I must act to protect the national security and national interest of the United States and its people,” Trump’s proclamation reads. “I remain committed to engaging with those countries willing to cooperate to improve information-sharing and identity-management procedures, and to address both terrorism-related and public-safety risks.”
Who is banned?
Citizens of the following 12 countries will be blocked from entering the United States: Afghanistan, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Myanmar, the Republic of Congo, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen.
In addition, nationals of seven other countries will be barred from coming into the U.S. permanently or under several visa programs: Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela.
When does the ban take effect?
The executive goes into effect Monday at 12:01 am ET.
Why now?
A similar policy in Trump’s first term, which barred foreigners from six Muslim-majority countries from entering the country, was reversed by then-President Joe Biden.
On the campaign trail, Trump promised he would revive the ban.
In a video posted Wednesday on YouTube, Trump cited the attack Sunday in Boulder as justification for the travel ban renewal.
“The recent terror attack in Boulder, Colorado, has underscored the extreme dangers posed to our country by the entry of foreign nationals who are not properly vetted, as well as those who come here as temporary visitors and overstay their visas,” Trump said. “We don’t want them.”
The suspect in the Boulder attack, Mohamed Sabry Soliman, is accused of using a “makeshift flamethrower” and Molotov cocktails on a group of people peacefully calling for the release of Israeli hostages in Gaza.
Soliman entered the U.S. legally from Egypt in 2022 on a tourist visa, according to officials.
Egypt is not one of the countries affected by the new travel ban.
Are there any exceptions?
Yes. The ban will not affect nationals who are already lawful permanent residents of the U.S. In other words, the proclamation will not apply to nationals from the list of banned countries who have green cards or who are living in the U.S. with a visa.
It will also not affect citizens of the banned countries who have citizenship in a second country and are entering the U.S. with a passport from an unrestricted nation.
Other exemptions include Afghans who helped the U.S. government during the war in Afghanistan; ethnic and religious minorities facing persecution in Iran; athletes from banned countries who are entering the U.S for the World Cup or the Olympics; and children who are being adopted.
At least 20 Palestinians were killed in Israeli strikes across Gaza on Thursday, including four journalists in a hospital in the enclave’s north, local health authorities said. The military said that it had targeted an Islamic Jihad militant who was operating a command-and-control center.
The Hamas-run government media office says that 225 journalists in Gaza have been killed since the war began.
The renewed military campaign has further isolated Israel amid mounting international pressure. On Wednesday, a U.S. veto blocked a U.N. Security Council draft resolution, backed by the 14 other members, demanding an “immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire” and full, unrestricted aid access to Gaza.
Under global pressure, Israel allowed limited U.N.-led aid deliveries to resume on May 19. A week later, the relatively unknown GHF launched a new aid distribution system that bypasses traditional relief agencies.
The GHF halted distributions on Wednesday and said it was pressing Israeli forces to improve civilian safety beyond the perimeter of its operations after dozens of Palestinians were shot dead near the Rafah site over three consecutive days this week.
What exactly occurred remains unclear, but the Israeli military said its soldiers fired warning shots in each incident. GHF has said that aid was safely handed out from its sites without any incident.
The American organization, which uses private U.S. security and logistics companies to transport aid to its distribution points inside Gaza from where it is collected, has said that it has so far distributed at least 7 million meals.
The U.N. and international humanitarian groups refuse to work with the GHF because they say aid distribution is essentially controlled by Israel’s military and forces the displacement of Palestinians by limiting distribution points to a few venues in central and southern Gaza.
Navigating the Gaza Strip is dangerous, with unexploded rockets and shells making it hard for many to reach aid handout sites. For Palestinians in north Gaza, cut off from distribution points in the south, even that remains out of reach.
Footage released by the GHF this week showed hundreds of Palestinians crowding its site in Rafah, collecting aid from piles of stacked boxes without any clear system of distribution.
WASHINGTON — LGBTQ people from around the world gather in Washington this week for a parade, a political rally and cultural performances marking WorldPride to channel joy in sexual and gender diversity as well as outrage over the Trump administration’s rollback of their rights.
WorldPride, which takes place in a different city around the world every two years, has been running for weeks and will continue until the end of June, bringing hundreds of thousands of demonstrators nearly to President Donald Trump’s doorstep.
The WorldPride parade will march within a block of the White House grounds on Saturday, and the rally will be held on Sunday at the Lincoln Memorial, the site of Martin Luther King’s 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech.
Trump is certain to be the target of protests.
He has issued executive orders limiting transgender rights, banned transgender people from serving in the armed forces, and rescinded anti-discrimination policies for LGBTQ people as part of a campaign to repeal diversity, equity and inclusion programs. His actions have been applauded by conservatives.
As many as three million people, including two million from outside the region, could attend, according to the nonprofit travel and trade group Destination DC, even as some potential attendees have suggested a boycott in protest of Trump policies or have raised concerns about safety given the U.S. political climate.
A Pride flag flies in front of the White House on June 2.Aaron Schwartz / Sipa USA via AP
The White House did not respond to Reuters requests for comment. It has said its transgender policy protects women by keeping transgender women out of shared spaces such as domestic abuse shelters and workplace showers, and has described DEI as a form of discrimination based on race or gender. Proponents of DEI consider it necessary to correct historic inequities.
Ryan Bos, executive director of the Capital Pride Alliance, which is leading WorldPride coordination, said many lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer people “fear for their security, their safety, their mental health, and don’t see a lot of hope right now.”
That makes this “the year that we need to ensure that we remain visible and seen so folks know that there’s a place for them, that there are people fighting for them,” he said.
The African Human Rights Coalition, which offers humanitarian services and protection for LGBTQ refugees and asylum seekers, called for a boycott of WorldPride because it said the United States was “governed now by an antagonistic fascist regime which presents distinct dangers to foreign LGBTQ+ attendees.”
“This is not business as usual and not a time for celebration but rather the time for resistance,” it said.
‘Defiant, united and unstoppable’
Politics and concerns about crossing the border during Trump’s immigration crackdown are expected to contribute to a 7% decline in international travel spending in the U.S. this year, according to the World Travel and Tourism Council.
Toronto’s Purple Fins, a self-described “gender free” swim club of nonbinary and transgender athletes, made the difficult decision to skip the World LGBTQIA+ Aquatics Championship being held in Washington.
Brandon Wolf, a spokesperson for Human Rights Campaign, the largest pro-LGBTQ organization in the U.S., said queer people “rightly feel nervous and afraid” but that WorldPride will be “an opportunity for the LGBTQ+ community to make clear that it’s not going anywhere, that we cannot be bullied back into the closet.”
“I’m really buoyed by the fact that the LGBTQ+ community seems to be saying loudly and clearly that pride is, and always has been, a protest, and that they intend to show up defiant, united and unstoppable,” Wolf said.
But transgender people said they feel targeted by the Trump rhetoric and state laws passed around the country that have banned transgender healthcare services for minors. Backers of those laws say they are attempting to protect minors from starting on a path they may later regret.
Susan Stryker, author of the 2008 book “Transgender History” and a distinguished visitor at Stanford University’s Clayman Institute for Gender Research, said that framing the Trump agenda as anti-DEI or anti-LGBTQ was a “misnomer.”
“It’s very specifically transgender people that they are coming after,” Stryker said. “The public discourse has been weaponized around trans issues.”
Marissa Miller, a transgender activist in Chicago who is traveling to Washington with the National Trans Visibility March, said the location of WorldPride events will empower demonstrators in their resistance.
Sydney hosted WorldPride in 2023. Washington was chosen to host in November 2022, before Trump’s reelection.
“The universe is ready to showcase us,” Miller said. “And I think that if it were going to be in any other place, that the consideration should have been to move it to Washington.”
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Mariyah Louis used to think she wouldn’t make it to 27 years old.
Louis was in the foster care system as a teenager before turning to Job Corps, a government-funded program that provides free career training to low-income students. Now, she ownsan auto detailingbusiness — a success she attributed to her Job Corps experience.
“I was able to pretty much rebuild my whole life, whereas most foster youth do not have that many opportunities coming out of a situation like that, and I’ve been independent, taking care of myself since 17,” said Louis, who is now 27.
Last week, the Labor Department said it would pause Job Corps operations at 99 contract-operated centers by the end of June, leaving thousands of students in limbo. Now, program alumni and faculty are anxious about the looming end date as they scramble to provide assistance to students who have also relied on Job Corps for free housing and food.
The National Job Corps Association and other groups joined to sue the Labor Department on Tuesday, urging the court to block the department from pausing Job Corps.
The cuts have alumni like Louis anxious about where the program’s current students will go next.
Louis was 17 when she entered the foster care systemin Michigan, where she remained until she aged out at 18. She said that she did not have “a good relationship with school because of that transition into foster care,” but her interest in Job Corps piqued after a friend attended.
After Louis enrolled, she began working with a trade instructor who became a parental figure.
“I will never forget that man,” she said. “He was way beyond a trade instructor. For me, he was a mentor, like a real-life mentor.”
WJBK-TV of Detroit captured students carrying their belongings out of the center where Louis attended after the Labor Department announcement. Louis, who said she hasn’t slept in days, started a Facebook group for alumni, staff and students to share resources and launched a GoFundMe to support people affected by the program’s closure.
“I feel like they’re being robbed, and they’re not going to have that experience that I had and where I am today, because being honest with you, I didn’t think that I would make it to 27 years old. I did not, I can’t,” she said. “And I’m married and everything. I never would have saw this life for myself outside of foster care.”
In Astoria, Oregon, the Tongue Point Job Corps Center is still trying to find housing for more than two dozen students who were homeless before starting the program, according to Mac McGoldrick, the center’s director.
“There is a black cloud over this campus,” McGoldrick said. “It is a heartbreaking thing to see.”
Reached for comment, a spokesperson for the Labor Department said that a “comprehensive review of Job Corps revealed significant systemic issues — including an alarming number of serious incidents, poor student outcomes, and unsustainable costs.”
The spokesperson, Courtney Parella, said that only 38% of students graduate from the program.The National Job Corps Association pushed back on this statistic last week, saying that “graduate rates were depressed by Covid-19 policies” and claimed that Job Corps graduation rates have historically been above 60%.NBC News has not independently verified either statistic.
“Our priority is promoting success for every student and ensuring a safe transition during this pause,” Parella said. “We’ve instructed center operators to work directly with the providers who helped students enroll and made it clear that there is no fixed deadline for transfers.”
Randolph Goodman has worked at the Gary Job Corps Center in San Marcos, Texas, for more than 30 years after retiring from the Navy. He said that there have “been a lot of problems” with the program, that “sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.”
The Gary Job Corps Center in San Marcos, Texas.Randolph Goodman
“But, you know, that’s what we have to do,” he said. “There’s nobody else that does what we do. There’s no vocational school that does it, no college that does it, none of that stuff.”
Roughly 3 million students have participated in Job Corps since its 1964 launch, studying industries ranging from manufacturing to hospitality, according to the program’s archived website. The program targeted low-income students, providing them with access to free career training and education, housing, meals, basic medical care and a living allowance.
In fiscal year 2024, the Labor Department spent $1.7 billion on Job Corps out of the department’s $13.4 billion in discretionary funds, according to the department.
Levi Golden with his diploma from Tongue Point High School.Courtesy Levi Golden
Levi Golden, who studies seamanship at Tongue Point Job Corps, said the program’s pause felt like a “gut punch.” He got his final certification last month and his high school diploma on Tuesday.
“If it weren’t for Job Corps, I would never have gotten my high school diploma. I wouldn’t have had the ability to get a good job,” said Golden, who has a job lined up for July. He plans to travel to Alaska, where he will be a crew member on a tug boat pushing material up the Yukon River for several months.
Golden, 24, enrolled in July 2023, and said Job Corps was “one of the best programs” he had experienced.
“Ever since I was a little boy, I had always dreamed of working on the water, but I never actually knew where to start or how to get there,” Golden said.
He said that he believed “more than anything in my heart that this is a necessary program, and I hate to see it shut down.”
Advocates for the program have argued that Job Corps provides a way forward for teenagers who come from disadvantaged backgrounds.
“I believe this program was sent by God to help people who are less fortunate,” said Christopher Coupette, who graduated in 2016 from the Jobs Corps center in Pinellas County, Florida. “And it’s sickened me, and I’m just sad to hear that it’s being taken away.”
Coupette, 32, is now a wellness director at an assisted living facility and bemoaned that students would no longer be able to get free education in the program.
“It helps you get on your feet,” he said. “It doesn’t hold your hand throughout your whole life. It helps you get ahead of life.”
Coupette lived in multiple households growing up, moving to live with his father after his mother died, and later moving in with his sister after his father “was not there for me.”
“I was just not happy there,” he recalled. “I wanted something for myself or something. I don’t know what I wanted to do with my life.”
He decided to participate in Job Corps based on his sister’s experience in the program and “just fell completely in love with it.” Now, Coupette lives in the same city where he participated in the program. He is pursuing a degree in nursing, has a daughter and is preparing to get married in December.
“Everything started from Job Corps taking a bet on me and helping me climb the next ladder of life, so I’ll forever be a Job Corps student,” he said.
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) spy service accused U.K. intelligence on Thursday of using the British Council as cover to undermine the country and said it had identified teachers at leading universities who cooperated with the London-based charity.
With the war in Ukraine intensifying more than three years since President Vladimir Putin ordered troops into the country and amid a tentative rapprochement between Moscow and Washington, Britain is now considered “enemy number one” by Russian officials.
The British Council, which calls itself “the U.K.’s international organization for cultural relations and educational opportunities,” said in 2018 that it had been told to cease operations in Russia.
The British Council did not immediately respond to a request for comment outside usual London business hours on the Russian accusations. British intelligence could not be reached for immediate comment.
The disparate and divided Russian opposition, which is now mostly abroad, accuses Putin of building an increasingly repressive and autocratic regime in Russia as Moscow faces off against the West over Ukraine.
The FSB, the main successor to the Soviet-era KGB and one of the most powerful organizations in Russia, said that it had identified teaching staff from leading universities in four Russian regions who had cooperated with the British Council.
The FSB said the British Council was used by British intelligence for attempts to erase Russian identity and develop a global network of agents of influence.
“During the investigation, representatives of the teaching staff of leading Russian universities who collaborated with the British side to the detriment of the security of the Russian Federation were identified,” the FSB said.
The FSB, which said that 15 Russian citizens had been officially warned over their cooperation with the British Council, implored allies to ban the British Council and cautioned citizens to have no contact with it.
The British Council, originally called the British Committee for Relations with Other Countries, was founded in 1934 to spread British “soft power” amid the rise of fascism and communism, according to an official history on its website.
Cricket fans had come out to celebrate Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s first Indian Premier League title win on Tuesday. The team had given away free passes to fans for the event through its website, and urged them to follow guidelines set by police and authorities.
The team said in a statement that it was “deeply anguished.”
Local TV news channels showed some people stretched out on the ground and emergency personnel carrying people into ambulances, while celebrations inside the stadium continued.
D.K. Shivakumar, the deputy chief minister of Karnataka state, told reporters that “the crowd was very uncontrollable.”
The Board of Control for Cricket in India, which organizes the IPL, in a statement called the incident “unfortunate.”
“This is a negative side of popularity. People are crazy for their cricketers. The organizers should have planned it better,” BCCI secretary Devajit Saikia said.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi called the incident “heartrending” and said his “thoughts are with all those who have lost their loved ones.”
Stampedes are relatively common in India when large crowds gather. In January, at least 30 people were killed as tens of thousands of Hindus rushed to bathe in a sacred river during the Maha Kumbh festival, the world’s largest religious gathering.
Use of low-cost e-commerce giants Temu and Shein has slowed significantly in the key U.S. market amid President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Chinese imports and the closure of the de minimis loophole, new data shows.
Temu’s U.S. daily active users (DAUs) dropped 52% in May versus March, before Trump’s tariffs were announced, while those at rival Shein were down 25%, according to data shared with CNBC by market intelligence firm Sensor Tower.
DAUs is a measure of the number of people who visit or interact with a platform every 24 hours. Monthly active users (MAUs), a measure of user engagement over a 30-day period, was also down at Temu (30%) and Shein (12%) in May versus March.
The declines were also reflected in both platforms’ Apple App Store rankings. Temu averaged a rank of 132 in May 2025, down from an average top 3 ranking a year ago, while Shein averaged a rank of 60 last month versus a top 10 ranking the year prior, the data showed.
Neither Temu nor Shein immediately responded to CNBC’s request for comment.
The user dropoff comes as both Temu and Shein have pulled back on U.S. advertising spend over recent months since the Trump administration’s tariff announcements.
Trump in April announced sweeping tariffs on Chinese imports, including the end of the “de minimis” tariff exemption on May 2, which allowed companies to ship low-cost goods worth less than $800 to the U.S. tariff-free.
In May, Temu’s U.S. ad spend fell 95% year-on-year while Shein’s was down 70%.
“Temu and Shein’s decline in U.S. ad spend was also noticeable in April, as spend decreased by 40% and 65% YoY, respectively,” Seema Shah, vice president of research and insights at Sensor Tower, said in emailed comments to CNBC.
Both Temu and Shein also altered their logistics models in the wake of tariffs, shifting away from a drop shipping model, which allowed them to send items directly from Chinese suppliers to U.S. consumers, and instead, particularly in Temu’s case, building up a network of U.S. warehouses.
Rui Ma, founder and analyst at Tech Buzz China, said such moves were also likely to have impacted the companies’ ad spend strategy and customer acquisition patterns.
“All these additional costs and regulatory hurdles are clearly hurting Chinese platforms’ U.S. growth prospects,” she wrote in emailed comments.
Tech Buzz China research from March showed that a 50% tariff would be the point at which Temu would lose most of its price advantages and find it difficult to operate. The tariff on former de minimis imports currently stands at 54%, having been lowered from 120% amid a 90-day tariff truce between the U.S. and China.
Growth outside the U.S.
Last week, Temu’s parent company PDD Holdings reported first-quarter earnings below estimates and pointed to tariffs as a significant pressure on sellers.
Temu’s popularity has nevertheless picked up outside the U.S., with non-U.S. users rising to account for 90% of the platform’s 405 million global MAUs in the second quarter, according to HSBC.
Writing in a note last week, HSBC analysts said that was “supported by growth in Europe, Latin America, and South America.” They added that the swiftest of that growth occurred in “less affluent markets.”
“Many (Chinese platforms) are now actively redirecting their efforts toward other markets such as Europe,” Ma said.
Three Māori lawmakers in New Zealand received record suspensions of up to three weeks on Thursday over a protest haka they performed in Parliament last year against a contentious bill.
The lawmakers drew global attention in November when they performed the haka, a ceremonial chanting dance of defiance that is a cherished cultural symbol of New Zealand. They were protesting legislation that would have reinterpreted the country’s 184-year-old founding document, a treaty that was signed between colonial British rulers and Indigenous Māori.
A parliamentary committee found the three lawmakers in contempt of parliament last month and recommended that they be suspended for up to three weeks “for acting in a manner that could have the effect of intimidating a member of the House.”
Debbie Ngarewa-Packer and Rawiri Waititi, co-leaders of Te Pāti Māori, the Māori party, which holds six of Parliament’s 123 seats, were suspended for three weeks each.
Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, who at 22 is New Zealand’s youngest legislator, was suspended for one week on the recommendation of the committee, which said in its report that she had demonstrated “some level of contrition” in her written statement.
The vote was 68-55 against Maipi-Clarke, 68-54 against Ngarewa-Packer and 68-53 against Waititi, all of whom were suspended effective immediately.
It is rare for New Zealand lawmakers to receive such suspensions, which are unpaid, and the longest anyone had previously been suspended was three days.
The opposition Labour Party as well as the Green Party criticized the suspensions as disproportionate, with the Labour Party proposing censure instead.
The three lawmakers performed the protest haka in November during the reading of a bill that would have redefined the Treaty of Waitangi. Signed in 1840 between the British Crown and Māori chiefs, the treaty established British governance and structures to protect Māori rights and continues to influence policy today.
The legislation was brought by the small libertarian party ACT New Zealand, which said the treaty had been misinterpreted to give Māori people special treatment.
Critics of the bill, which was defeated in April, said it would undo decades of progress for Māori, who make up about 20% of New Zealand’s 5 million people and fare worse than the rest of the population in health, education and the criminal justice system.
One of the Māori lawmakers, Maipi-Clarke, led the haka by tearing up a copy of the bill, joined by other Māori members and some visitors in the public gallery. Video of the protest went viral and gathered hundreds of millions of views across social media.
Some lawmakers objected to the way their Māori colleagues advanced toward them across the floor.
“This was a very serious incident, the likes of which I have never seen before in my 23 years in the debating chamber,” said Judith Collins of the center-right National Party, chair of the parliamentary committee that issued the report.
She added that the lawmakers had performed the haka without permission and that the disruption had suspended legislative proceedings for 30 minutes.
The three Māori lawmakers declined to appear before the committee during its investigation, citing disrespect for their cultural traditions. Their party said the way it was being conducted was “grossly unjust” and that “this was not about process, this became personal.”
The committee said the lawmakers were being sanctioned not for performing the haka, but for “the time at and manner in which it was performed.” It said the severity of the sanctions was intended to “leave members in no doubt that the behavior discussed is not acceptable.”
The vote had originally been scheduled for last month but was postponed so that the three Māori lawmakers could participate in debate over the federal budget.
Performing haka in Parliament is not uncommon, and is typically seen when Māori members celebrate the passage of a particular bill. The dance is known abroad for being performed at matches by New Zealand’s rugby teams, and variations of it are also performed at funerals and formal welcomes.
“It would have been clearly understood by everyone in the parliament that this was a peaceful act of protest done in a way that aligns with Māori tradition,” said Julian Rawiri Kusabs, a Māori historian and researcher at the University of Melbourne in Australia.
Kusabs said the suspension was a setback in decades of reconciliation efforts between the New Zealand government and Māori communities, whose members have had to navigate “a highly complex and frequently painful relationship” even to achieve representation in Parliament.
The suspension, he said, reinforces the longstanding perception that “Māori culture is not equally respected within New Zealand’s formal institutions of governance.”
WASHNGTON — Days before a Washington murder trial was to begin, prosecutors decided the evidence they had against the defendant — who was in custody for more than five years — was not good enough, and the victim’s family still wants an explanation.
When John Pernell was shot to death on Nelson Place SE in July 2010, witnesses told police the retired protective service officer fought with one of four men trying to rob him and others. Pernell and his friends were setting up their barbecues for a traditional Fourth of July get-together when the men jumped a fence and announced a robbery.
The investigation went nowhere until 2019, when a witness told police they should look at a man named Kavon Young.
John Pernell.NBC Washington
According to a document filed in D.C. Superior Court, police said DNA discovered under Pernell’s fingernails matched the DNA profile of Young. The probability the DNA did not belong to Young was one in 3.4 billion in the United States African American population.
But that DNA evidence — presented in court as a match in 2019 — suddenly became a mismatch two days before trial. Prosecutors at the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the defense attorneys and the private lab that did the original testing will not say why.
“It’s shameful. We have a right to know what happened,” said Pernell’s daughter, Yolanda Pernell-Vogelson.
Two days before the trial was set to begin, Pernell-Vogelson and her sister, Ayana Pernell, say they got a call from Michael Spence, the prosecutor in the case, who told them the initial calculations were wrong.
“To this day, [we] have not been given a full, understandable explanation as to why this has happened,” Ayana Pernell said. “I mean, we are essentially victims also.”
Court records show the private lab that did the testing, Bode Technology Group Inc., lost the evidence and it cannot be retested. The judge told the prosecution and defense that at trial, the jury would be told “the government’s labs and/or agencies negligently lost the DNA extract in this case” just before the trial was set to begin.
In an April 9 filing, prosecutors noted again the DNA “matched the defendant” “as reported by Bode Technology” — a result prosecutors relied upon for five-and-a-half years until deciding two days before trial it was unreliable.
Bode Technology group declined to comment. Young was released in April, and NBC Washington couldn’t reach the attorneys who have been representing him.
Pernell’s daughters said they wrote letters to all lawmakers in the city.
“We extend our condolences to Mr. Pernell’s family and friends, including his daughters,” Washington Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Lindsey Appiah said in a statement Wednesday. “I’ve contacted them regarding his case, and we are investigating the matter to see if there is anything additional the District can do to be of assistance to ensure justice.”
