NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt Season 2025 Episode 112 Apr 25 Fri

A Wisconsin judge has been arrested by the FBI and accused of helping an undocumented migrant try to evade arrest on a deportation order. The FBI said the judge instructed the migrant, who was in her courtroom facing separate domestic abuse charges, to leave through a back door to avoid the immigration agents outside. The judge said she will be ‘exonerated.' NBC News' Gabe Gutierrez reports. NBC News' Christine Romans reports on new fears of COVID-era shortages and supply chain disruptions potentially coming in just weeks because of President Trump's global trade war. For MedSource Labs, the near-constant threat of new tariffs is impacting critically needed medical supplies made in factories from China to India to Colombia. Luigi Mangione, the Maryland man accused of murdering United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, pleaded not guilty to federal charges today. NBC News' Sam Brock reports about the stakes as federal prosecutors seek the death penalty. NBC's Andrea Mitchell reports on what the company is doing to try to keep prices down and the supply chain stable. The explosion coincided with the arrival of White House envoy Steve Witkoff in Moscow to talk with Russian President Vladimir Putin about the war in Ukraine. NBC News' Keir Simmons reports. The public viewing at St. Peter's Basilica has come to an end, after 250,000 people visited over the course of three days. NBC News' Tom Llamas reports Pope Francis' casket has now been sealed, ahead of his funeral on Saturday. A moment between Pope Francis and an 8-year-old boy named Emanuele Balderi from 2018 has resonated around the world following the pope's death. Balderi's father had passed away and since he didn't believe in God, Balderi wanted to know if he had gone to heaven. Now 16, Balderi told NBC News' Anne Thompson that moment - and Pope Francis' answer - changed his life.