Emilie Kiser has returned to social media months after the drowning death of her 3-year-old son, Trigg. 

In her first TikTok video since her son fell into the family’s backyard pool in May and died six days later, Emilie Kiser showed herself making an iced coffee before sharing that she was “really nervous right now.” 

Telling her followers that she’s “missed, truly, just getting to chat” with them every day, Emilie Kiser said, “I hope that in coming back and sharing a little bit of what I choose to, I can reconnect with you guys and hopefully help anyone who is going through a similar situation.” 

Emilie Kiser has more than 4 million followers on TikTok and frequently posted lifestyle content about her family.

“I have obviously been offline for the last little bit,” she continued. “I’m just doing my best every day to figure this out, figure my life out.” 

Emilie Kiser said she’s been “taking it day by day” and added she plans to hold the same mindset about sharing content. 

“Obviously you guys know that the last few months have been really, really hard, and I’m not going to sugarcoat it. I’m not going to lie. I’m not going to sit here and act like things are fine and dandy,” she said, adding that she doesn’t want her return online “to come off that way.” 

Calling content creation “really therapeutic,” Emilie Kiser said she isn’t clear on what a return to social media means at this time. 

“I don’t know how much I’m going to be willing to share about my grief journey,” she said. “The last thing I want to do is put myself in a position where I’m sharing too much or I’m not ready to share stuff and I share it.” 

Emilie Kiser concluded her message saying that there are “so many things” she does want to speak about, but is “just not ready right now.”

“I don’t know when I’ll be ready,” she continued. “But if you are going through anything similar, I just want to say that I love you and I’m here for you and I understand how hard it is.” 

For the remainder of the video, Emilie Kiser shared footage of her cleaning her house. She captioned the four minute video with a white heart emoji. 

Emilie Kiser’s husband, Brady Kiser, was home alone with Trigg and their infant son, Theodore, before the drowning on May 12, according to a police report from the Chandler Police Department in Arizona.

Brady Kiser told police that Trigg was in the backyard unsupervised before he found the 3-year-old unconscious in the water. In initial interviews with police, Brady Kiser said he left Trigg alone for three to five minutes, allegedly saying, “I didn’t have a clock, obviously, I don’t know the exact time, but it was moments, it wasn’t minutes.” 

Video evidence later showed Trigg was unsupervised for nine minutes, and he was in the water for seven minutes, authorities shared in the report. 

In August, Emilie Kiser spoke publicly for the first time since Trigg’s death, sharing a statement on Instagram. In the message, she wrote that she takes “full accountability as Trigg’s mother, and I know I should have done more to protect him.” 

“One of the hardest lessons I carry is that a permanent pool fence could have saved his life and it’s something I will never overlook again,” she wrote. “I hope amidst this pain, Trigg’s story will help prevent other children and families from suffering the same loss.”

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The federal prosecutor in charge of pursuing mortgage fraud allegations against New York Attorney General Letitia James resigned Friday after President Donald Trump said he no longer wanted him to serve in the position.

Erik S. Siebert, the acting U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia, announced his resignation in an email to colleagues that was obtained by NBC News.

Trump unleashed an attack Friday on Siebert, who was tasked with pursuing mortgage fraud charges against James, a longtime Trump foe.

“I want him out,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office when asked if he wanted Siebert to be fired.

The Justice Department declined to comment and Siebert’s office and did not immediately respond to a requests for comment.

The White House and Justice Department have been pressing Seibert to secure an indictment on potential mortgage fraud charges against James.

That investigation stalled over concerns from federal agents and prosecutors who felt they lacked the evidence to obtain a conviction if the case were to go to trial, two senior federal law enforcement officials told NBC News on Wednesday.

James has denied any wrongdoing.

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Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Friday, Trump — who nominated Siebert earlier this year — lamented the Senate’s “blue slip” custom, which allowed Democratic Sens. Tim Kaine and Mark Warner of Virginia to recommend Siebert for the position.

He referred to Kaine and Warner as “two bad guys, bad senators, too, and they do a terrible job for the people of Virginia.”

In a joint statement Friday, the senators criticized Trump for “pushing out” Siebert, who they referred to as an “ethical prosecutor who refused to bring criminal charges against Trump’s perceived enemies when the facts wouldn’t support it.”

“The Eastern District of Virginia is at the forefront of significant cases essential to our national security, and just like any court in America, should be focused on justice instead of a thin-skinned president’s vendettas,” they added.

A New York appeals court on Thursday dismissed a $500 million civil fraud judgment stemming from a case brought by James’ office that had accused Trump and his companies of routinely inflating property values in financial statements.

In a social media post last month lauding the court’s decision, Trump referred to James as a “political hack” and “Corrupt and Incompetent Attorney General who only brought this Case in order to hurt me politically.”

The investigation of James is not the first time mortgage fraud claims have been probed in connection with one of Trump’s perceived political foes.

Mortgage fraud claims have also been brought against Federal Reserve board member Lisa Cook, by Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte, a Trump political appointee. Trump has used those allegations to justify cause for her firing and has asked the Supreme Court to weigh in.

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Singer and social media sensation D4vd has canceled his remaining U.S. tour dates, including a show scheduled for this weekend in Los Angeles, as the investigation continues into the decomposed body of a 15-year-old girl found in his impounded Tesla.

The “Romantic Homicide” singer’s “Withered” world tour, which began Aug. 5, was to include shows this week in Portland, Seattle, San Francisco and Saturday in Los Angeles at the Greek Theatre in Griffith Park. The Portland show went on as planned, but the Seattle concert scheduled for Wednesday night was canceled earlier this week and remaining U.S. tour dates in San Francisco and Los Angeles were called off Friday.

Details about the status of upcoming performances in Europe were not immediately available.

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D4vd had been on tour since Aug. 5.

The decomposed body of a girl was found Sept. 8 after workers at Hollywood Tow reported a strong odor coming from the Tesla registered to the singer. Officers opened the front trunk, also known as a frunk, and found the remains in a bag, police said.

Law enforcement sources told NBC News that the remains were not intact.

At the time, D4vd’s representative said he is cooperating with authorities in their investigation.

“D4vd has been informed about what’s happened. And, although he is still out on tour, he is fully cooperating with the authorities,” a spokesperson for the singer said after the body was discovered.

The singer’s tour was in Minneapolis at the time of the body’s discovery with a stop in Kansas City the next day, according to his Instagram profile. The car was impounded after someone reported it was abandoned in the Hollywood Hills, where neighbors say it had been parked for more than a month.

The case was being treated as a death investigation, the LAPD said.

“At this time, the LAPD does not have a crime classification from the coroner as to the mode or manner of death,” the agency said Wednesday after the medical examiner’s identification of the body. “Thus, we do not have any suspect information at this time.”

Rivas was last seen April 5, 2024, in the western Riverside County community. Details about the circumstances surrounding her disappearance were not immediately available.

TMZ reported that the girl’s mother said a description provided by police of the body, which included a distinctive tattoo, matched her daughter’s appearance. The medical examiner revealed earlier that the girl had the letters “Shhh” tattooed on her right index finger.

The LAPD searched the home hours after authorities announced the body, found in the front trunk of a Houston artist’s impounded Tesla at a Los Angeles tow yard, was identified by the county medical examiner as a teen who disappeared in the Lake Elsinore area last year.

It was not immediately clear how the house, not far from the location where the Tesla registered to D4vd was reported abandoned earlier this month, is connected to the death investigation.

Four law enforcement sources familiar with the death investigation told NBC News that investigators were seeking items from the property, including any digital devices that would have security recordings or connect the girl to the location as they seek to find what connection or relationship, if any, there was to D4vd.

TMZ reported that detectives emerged from the house with a computer and several evidence bags.

D4vd, whose legal name is David Burke, is a singer-songwriter who rose to fame with viral hits on Tiktok, where he has 3.6 million followers. That success led to signings with Darkroom and Interscope Records.

Born in Queens, New York, Burke moved to Texas in his early teens and gained a following on YouTube playing Fortnite and other online games. He started creating original music, some of which went viral on TikTok.

He released his debut album “Withered” in April and embarked on a world tour.

In an interview on the “Zach Sang Show,” D4vd said the 4 substituted for the a in his name was for search-engine optimization and a representation of four cinematic universes with various characters that he was creating.

Chaos unfolded Friday as protestors and ICE guards clashed outside a federal immigration facility in suburban Broadview being used as part of the Trump administration’s “Operation Midway Blitz,” with protesters, with several detained.

The protests began early Friday morning and continued into the late evening.

By nightfall, several protestors were detained.

Though this protest has taken place every Friday for weeks, the clashes on Sept. 19 have been the most tense so far.

Protestors were often seen trying to block vehicles or federal agents entering or exiting the facility, with federal agents then firing pepper balls at the crowd of protestors.

Throughout the morning and afternoon, video and photos captured at the scene showed ongoing scuffles between protestors and ICE guards outside the facility, with tear gas and pepper balls flying through the air.

By nightfall, the clash escalated as someone in the crowd launched fireworks outside the heavily armed ICE compound. Federal agents responded to the fireworks with tear gas and dozens of rounds of pepper ball shots.

Activists and some Illinois democrats running for office were seen gagging and struggling to breathe as tear gas filled the air. Some used milk and water to clear their eyes.

Kat Abughazaleh, who is running for Congress in Illinois’ Ninth District, was thrown to the ground by federal agents at the protest.

“What’s really important to mention here, I’m gonna have a bruise on my side, but that doesn’t hold a candle to the people trapped in the facility are dealing with,” Abughazaleh said.

One individual was detained in the morning after guards appeared to physically move activists in an attempt to clear a path for vehicles to enter and exit the facility.

Later, crowds at the protest grew with local leaders joining, including Lt. Gov. Julianna Stratton and Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez, as guards armed with pepper balls stood atop the roof of the building.

Video captured the moment tear gas was deployed.

A photo captured by NBC Chicago photographer George Mycyk Friday morning showed a bottle of what appeared to have been sprayed at protestors, marked with the words “riot control.”

“We just got sprayed with — I don’t know if it was tear gas, or pepper spray — I know it stung my eyes,” NBC Chicago reporter Jenn Schanz, who was at the scene, said. “It was very hard to breathe.”

In just two weeks, more than 550 undocumented immigrants have been detained by ICE, the agency told NBC 5 Investigates.

The Department of Homeland Security said demonstrators at the Broadview immigration facility have assaulted law enforcement and are interfering with operations.

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