In a surprise announcement, the Defense Department disclosed Thursday that U.S. officials have doubled the number of American troops in Syria to support the fight ISIS, an increase that predates the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime this month. The Pentagon press secretary, Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder, said at the Pentagon briefing that the U.S. has roughly 2,000...
A meeting between President-elect Donald Trump and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Charles Q. Brown, Jr., in a luxury box at the Army-Navy football game last weekend may have delayed Trump’s plans to fire Brown, according to two people with knowledge of the conversation. For months, Trump and his close associates...
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will meet with Pope Francis in January, likely the president’s final international trip just days before he leaves the Oval Office, the White House announced on Thursday. Biden accepted Francis’ invitation to visit the Vatican during a Thursday phone call with the pope, the White House said in a statement....
WASHINGTON — The House rejected a bill Thursday to keep the government funded temporarily, after Republican leaders reneged on an earlier bipartisan deal and made modifications to appease President-elect Donald Trump, billionaire Elon Musk and an internal GOP revolt. The vote was 174-235, with one Democrat voting present, falling far short of the two-thirds majority...
Welcome to the online version of From the Politics Desk, an evening newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the White House, Capitol Hill and the campaign trail. In today’s edition, senior political reporter Jonathan Allen writes that the government shutdown battle shows Donald Trump is bringing chaos back...
As Republican leaders on Capitol Hill scramble to rescue a government funding deal after President-elect Donald Trump helped torpedo an initial agreement, an NBC News review of historical polling data shows that lawmakers have not paid a steep political price in past government shutdowns. It’s a point some shutdown proponents have been making as Trump...
A lawyer representing celebrity pastor Bishop T.D. Jakes is going to new lengths to try to combat artificial intelligence-generated misinformation posted about his client on YouTube, saying the platform has failed to effectively uphold its own policies. On Thursday, Dustin Pusch, an attorney for Jakes, filed a motion in the Northern District of California seeking...
Prosecutors on Thursday accused Ingrid Lewis-Martin, the former top aide to New York City Mayor Eric Adams, of using her City Hall influence to help a hotel chain with construction plans. Lewis-Martin was expected to appear in a Manhattan courtroom on Thursday to hear indictments made against her, her son Glenn Martin II and two...
Veteran Fox News star Neil Cavuto is exiting after 28 years at the anchor’s desk, the network confirmed on Thursday. His final day will be today, signing off at the end of “Your World,” the afternoon program he has hosted since Fox News launched in 1996. “Neil Cavuto’s illustrious career has been a master class...
The Food and Drug Administration is changing the way food companies can claim their products are “healthy.” Fortified white bread is out, and fatty fish like salmon is in. Most everything in the grocer’s produce section — whole fruits and vegetables — would qualify under the new rule issued Thursday. Other nutrient-rich foods, such as...