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The ‘laughingstock of the NFL’ has suddenly started winning
Peter Rosenberg had a major scheduling conflict last Sunday. With his first child due next month, he and his wife, Natalie, organized a baby shower to celebrate. Unfortunately, it was during the Washington Commanders game. Rosenberg, who grew up in Chevy Chase, Maryland, is a lifelong fan. He never misses a game and is particularly...
Winter storm threatens Midwest holiday travel
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Trump transfers all his DJT shares to his revocable trust, SEC filings show
President-elect Donald Trump this week transferred his entire stake of shares in Trump Media to a revocable trust of which he is the sole beneficiary, regulatory filings revealed Thursday evening. Trump did not receive any money for the gift of his 114,750,000 shares of Trump Media stock to the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust on Tuesday, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission....
The number of U.S. troops in Syria has doubled, Pentagon discloses
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...
Trump rethinks firing of Joint Chiefs chairman after one-on-one meeting, sources say
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...
Biden will meet with Pope Francis in the final days of his presidency
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....
House votes down Republican bill to avert shutdown on eve of the deadline
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...
The chaos agent in chief is back: From the Politics Desk
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...
Past government shutdowns have dinged Republicans but not cost them long term
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...









