WASHINGTON — Senior U.S. officials arrived in Damascus on Friday for the first diplomatic mission to the Syrian capital since the fall of dictator Bashar al-Assad this month. The U.S. delegation, led by Barbara Leaf, the senior State Department official for
It was government shutdown season in Washington, and all through the House, many creatures were stirring — most notably Elon Musk. Lawmakers in Congress were expecting a glide path to the holidays. They had a bipartisan deal that would keep
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
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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,
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
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
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
IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Trump blesses internal House GOP deal to avert government shutdown 13:04 Top House Republican lays out new GOP plan to avert government shutdown 05:35 Only
The next big iOS update probably isn’t too far off, but don’t expect a ton from it. Apple’s next software update will be iOS 18.3, or at least, that’s what everyone expects right now. Since iOS 18.2 just came out,
WASHINGTON — Speaker Mike Johnson and House Republican leaders were struggling Thursday to devise a fallback plan to keep the government open, after billionaire Elon Musk and President-elect Donald Trump rallied conservatives to sink their bipartisan funding deal. With less
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
Like any genAI model, Google Gemini responses can sometimes be inaccurate, but in this case it might be because testers don’t have the expertise to fact-check them. According to TechCrunch, the firm hired to improve accuracy for Gemini is now
The Republican candidate narrowly trailing in the North Carolina Supreme Court race has asked that same court to throw out 60,000 ballots from last month’s election. The move from Jefferson Griffin, an appeals court judge, to the state Supreme Court
A Georgia appellate court Thursday disqualified Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and removed her from prosecuting Donald Trump and co-defendants in a case she brought over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. The decision is likely to cripple
