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

President-elect Donald Trump said Thursday that Congress should get rid of the debt ceiling, a day after he came out against a deal reached by congressional lawmakers to fund the government before a shutdown occurs. In a phone interview with NBC News,

CHELSEA, Mass. — The operation begins before dawn.   More than a dozen agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement — or ICE — gear up in a parking lot in suburban Boston for what the agency calls “targeted enforcement.”  This week,

For months, Dave McCormick knew a victory in Pennsylvania’s critical Senate race was far from certain. Public polling over the summer had him trailing Democratic Sen. Bob Casey, a three-term incumbent and state political scion, by as many as 14

WASHINGTON — Lawyers and pro-democracy advocates are in the early stages of building a nationwide network of specialists aimed at defending and protecting people who may be targeted for retribution once President-elect Donald Trump takes office, according to multiple people