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The FBI has arrested a suspect in the investigation into pipe bombs planted near the Republican and Democratic national party headquarters in Washington, D.C., in 2021.
Speaker Mike Johnson is staring down a revolt from House Republican women.
Several female lawmakers have been increasingly defying Johnson, R-La., on legislative matters and lobbing public broadsides at him \u2014 including a member of Johnson\u2019s own leadership team.
This week alone, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., launched a discharge petition to go around Johnson and force a floor vote on a\u00a0congressional stock trading ban<\/a>, posting on X that she\u2019s \u201cpissed<\/a>\u201d that leadership isn\u2019t moving fast enough on the issue while clarifying, \u201cI like Mike.\u201d Johnson prefers to go through regular order, and there has been an initial hearing on the issue.
Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York, the chair of House Republican Leadership, not only signed on to Luna\u2019s petition but also publicly unloaded on Johnson over an unrelated issue in the national defense bill, suggesting in a series of social media posts that Johnson lied about the matter. The spat has\u00a0seemingly since been resolved<\/a>, but the bad blood between the two has long been simmering.
Meanwhile, a number of high-profile Republican women are fleeing the House for other opportunities, weighing retirement or quitting Congress early, fueling some concern that GOP women\u2019s ranks could be depleted in the next Congress.
Read the full story here.<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
In a statement, Speaker Mike Johnson applauded the work of investigators who worked to identify the suspect arrested today in connection with pipe bombs planted in Washington, D.C., in 2021.
He said: “All of Congress commends the hard work of investigators and law enforcement officials at the FBI and USCP who helped bring a suspect into custody after a search of nearly five years. We are confident that today\u2019s arrest will mark the start of a process that will yield transparency, accountability, and justice.”
The Government Accountability Office, an independent and nonpartisan investigative watchdog for Congress, says it has opened an investigation into Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte.
In November, top Senate Democrats\u00a0wrote to the agency\u00a0<\/a>asking that it \u201cpromptly investigate recent actions undertaken at the Federal Housing Finance Agency\u201d by Pulte.
Specifically, actions related to \u201crecent referrals of New York Attorney General Letitia James, U.S. Senator Adam Schiff, Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, and Congressman Eric Swalwell to the U.S. Department of Justice for mortgage fraud.\u201d
All the officials that Pulte has referred to the Justice Department have repeatedly denied wrongdoing.
Read the full story here.<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
Trump and the leaders of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo signed the peace agreement after delivering remarks.
In remarks at the peace agreement signing, Trump thanked Secretary of State Marco Rubio for putting his name on the U.S. Institute of Peace, where the event is taking place.
“President Trump will be remembered by history as the President of Peace,” Rubio had said in a post <\/a>on <\/a>X<\/a> about Trump’s name being added. “It\u2019s time our State Department display that.”
Trump’s name had been added to the sign <\/a>on the building before the signing ceremony.
President Donald Trump will travel to Pennsylvania on Tuesday to tout his economic agenda as polls consistently show Americans are concerned about their financial outlooks.
In an October NBC News survey,\u00a0nearly two-thirds<\/a>\u00a0of respondents said they believed Trump was failing to fulfill his promises to bring down costs and supercharge the economy.
White House officials insist that the president\u2019s policies have bolstered the economy and that he is trying to undo damage from his predecessor, Democrat Joe Biden.
Read the full story here. <\/em><\/strong><\/a>
Trump\u2019s name has been added to the sign on the U.S. Institute of Peace headquarters in downtown D.C., above the existing building title.
The State Department\u2019s X account\u00a0shared a photo<\/a>\u00a0of the new facade yesterday in a post that called Trump \u201cthe greatest dealmaker in our nation\u2019s history,\u201d an apparent reference to his work to end multiple conflicts around the world.
\u201cPresident Trump will be remembered by history as the President of Peace. It\u2019s time our State Department display that,\u201d Secretary of State Marco Rubio\u00a0said about the name change on X<\/a>.
The agency has been embroiled in a legal battle over whether the Trump administration and the Department of Government Efficiency, then led by Elon Musk, had the power to dismantle it earlier this year. Most of the independent nonpartisan institution\u2019s staff were\u00a0let go in March<\/a>.
Read the full story here.<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said at a press conference today that she plans to meet with Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney tomorrow in Washington, D.C.
“The three of us being together is a symbol and also a symbol of friendship, because what we want is peace and friendship between our peoples and nations,” Sheinbaum said, adding that they they’ll have the opportunity to discuss the status of trade agreements.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Bradley and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine briefed House Intelligence leaders this morning. They are now in the Senate’s Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility to brief the leaders of the House and Senate Armed Services committees.\u00a0
Rep. Jim Himes, the top Democrat on the House Intel Committee, said, \u201cWhat I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I\u2019ve seen in my time in public service.\u201d\u00a0
\u201cYou have two individuals in clear distress without any means of locomotion, with a destroyed vessel, who are killed by the United States,\u201d Himes said.\u00a0
He later said, \u201cThe admiral confirmed that there had not been a kill them all order, and that there was not an order to grant no quarter.\u201d
Following the swearing-in ceremony of Rep. Matt Van Epps, R-Tenn., this morning, Speaker Mike Johnson encouraged Americans to “relax” about the cost of living, one day after Trump appeared to dismiss concerns about affordability as a “hoax.”
\u201cWe are exactly on the trajectory of where we\u2019ve always planned to be. Steady at the wheel, everybody, it\u2019s going to be fine. Everything \u2014 our best days are ahead of us,\u201d Johnson told reporters.\u00a0
<\/span>Rep. Matt Van Epps, left, with House Speaker Mike Johnson before a ceremonial swearing-in today.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Win McNamee \/ Getty Images<\/span>
The speaker added that Americans would start to feel relief in January, when provisions from the One Big, Beautiful Bill kick in, saying \u201cpeople will feel the effects of that, positive effects.\u201d\u00a0
Yesterday in the Oval Office, Trump blasted Democrats who are campaigning on affordability and lowering prices, saying, \u201cIt\u2019s a Democrat hoax.”
\u201cWhen they use the word \u2018affordability,\u2019 they just say \u2014 they never say anything else. Just election\u2019s about affordability, and then they go into the next subject. It\u2019s a con job,\u201d he said.
Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., the chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee this morning blasted Aaron Siri, an attorney who is scheduled to appear before a CDC vaccine advisory panel this week.
“Aaron Siri is a trial attorney who makes his living suing vaccine manufacturers. He is presenting as if an expert on childhood vaccines. The ACIP is totally discredited. They are not protecting children,” Cassidy wrote in a post on X.
ACIP, or the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, is meeting today and tomorrow. According to an agenda<\/a> for this week’s meeting, Siri is presenting to the panel tomorrow about the childhood and adolescent immunization schedule.
In a statement to NBC News, a Health and Human Services official pushed back on Cassidy’s assertion that Siri isn’t an expert on childhood vaccines.
“All individuals who present to ACIP are experts in their subject area. Aaron Siri is an expert on the vaccine schedule due to his extensive legal work in this field,” the official said. “ACIP continues to review all evidence presented and will issue recommendations based on evidence and sound judgment to best protect America\u2019s children.”
This isn’t the first time Cassidy has criticized ACIP, a committee whose membership was gutted and replaced<\/a> by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. earlier this year.
After Kennedy replaced experts on the committee with his handpicked members, including known vaccine skeptics, Cassidy slammed the new committee for its lack of expertise with vaccines and called for them not to meet<\/a>.
The Louisiana senator expressed major reservations about Kennedy’s leadership before he was confirmed to lead HHS by the Senate earlier this year. In remarks accompanying a statement about his decision to vote in Kennedy’s favor, Cassidy said that the incoming secretary had committed to “maintain the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u2019s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices without changes.”
In the days and months after the U.S. military\u2019s\u00a0chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan<\/a>, Thomas Kasza and some of his fellow U.S. Army Special Forces members focused their attention on the Afghans who had fought alongside them.
These Afghans who risked their lives for the U.S. were\u00a0prime targets of the Taliban<\/a>. Remaining in their homeland was akin to a death sentence.
\u201cGiven how they served exclusively alongside U.S. Green Berets, they were by default among those highest on Taliban target lists,\u201d said Kasza, who was one of many military veterans who assisted their former Afghan counterparts in leaving the country and resettling in the U.S.
After the\u00a0shooting of two National Guard members<\/a>\u00a0near the White House last week, Kasza and other U.S. war veterans find themselves having to come to the defense of their former Afghan partners yet again.
An Afghan who worked with\u00a0a CIA-trained military unit<\/a>\u00a0has been charged in the attack, which killed Sarah Beckstrom, 20, and critically wounded Andrew Wolfe, 24.
The Trump administration immediately moved to\u00a0crack down on Afghans\u00a0<\/a>in the U.S., pausing asylum decisions and halting the issuing of visas.
Read the full story here.<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
First lady Melania Trump said in a statement this morning that seven more children have been reunited with their families in Ukraine.
The first lady praised the leadership and diplomacy in Russia and Ukraine to reunify the children \u2014 six boys and one girl \u2014 with their families.
“Their bridge-building has created a tangible collaborative environment \u2014 an anchor for optimism. This cooperation will continue to drive the process forward through the next phase,” Trump said.
The first lady announced<\/a> in early October that she had been working with Russian President Vladimir Putin on reuniting Ukrainian children who were believed to be taken to Russia during the conflict.
Russia has taken thousands of Ukrainian children since it invaded Ukraine in February 2022. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy\u00a0estimated earlier this year that more than 200,000 Ukrainian children have been deported<\/a>\u00a0to Russia or territories it controls since the war began. Russia\u2019s children\u2019s rights commissioner, Maria Lvova-Belova, has estimated that around 700,000 children have been displaced since Russia\u2019s 2014 invasion of Crimea.
Fallout is growing over the U.S. attack on an alleged Venezuelan drug boat in September with the Pentagon now facing calls to release video of the second strike that killed survivors of the first hit. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is also facing new scrutiny for the information he shared on a Signal group chat in March about a pending military operation in Yemen. NBC\u2019s Peter Alexander reports for “TODAY” from the White House.
Florida is entering the national redistricting arms race, with a legislative committee hearing today set to kick off yet another contentious map-drawing fight.
Republicans are hoping Florida, where they have full control of state government and already represent 20 of 28 congressional districts, will be fertile ground for further shoring up the party\u2019s narrow House majority ahead of next year\u2019s midterm elections.
But it won\u2019t be easy, legally or politically.
Read the full story here. <\/em><\/strong><\/a>
The New York Times filed a lawsuit against the Pentagon over\u00a0new rules restricting<\/a>\u00a0how reporters cover the U.S. military, claiming they violate the First Amendment.
The lawsuit, filed today in the U.S. District Court in Washington, alleges that the\u00a021-page agreement<\/a>\u00a0that Pentagon reporters were told to sign in October was unlawful and unconstitutional. Many reporters,\u00a0including six at The New York Times<\/a>, handed in their Pentagon access badges in protest over the policy.
Read the full story here.<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
The FBI has arrested a suspect in the investigation into pipe bombs planted near the Republican and Democratic national party headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 5, 2021, according to a federal law enforcement official familiar with the investigation.
The arrest marks a breakthrough in a case that has stymied investigators for nearly five years.
Read the full story here.<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
Trump<\/a>\u00a0has pardoned the former chief executive of the entertainment venue company Oak View Group months after he was\u00a0indicted on a federal conspiracy charge<\/a>.
Tim Leiweke, 68, who remains a shareholder of the company after he stepped down as CEO in July, expressed his \u201cprofound gratitude\u201d to Trump for\u00a0the pardon<\/a>.
\u201cThis has been a long and difficult journey for my wife, my daughter, and me,\u201d Leiweke said in a statement yesterday. \u201cThe President has given us a new lease on life with which we will be grateful and good stewards.\u201d
Leiweke was charged during the Trump administration.
A federal grand jury in Texas\u00a0returned an indictment in July<\/a>\u00a0that accused Leiweke of conspiring with a competitor to rig the bidding process to develop the $375 million Moody Center, a 15,000-seat arena at the University of Texas at Austin, which hosts major music events, as well as basketball and other sporting events. The would-be competitor agreed to stand down in the bidding process in exchange for subcontracts.
Read the full story here.<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
Adm. Frank M. Bradley saw the two survivors of a September strike on an alleged drug-smuggling boat as legitimate military targets based on the rules for the operation, which may have identified them as narco-terrorists, a defense official told NBC News.
The military then launched a second strike on the same boat, generating controversy over whether the second strike was legal or could potentially constitute a war crime.<\/a>
<\/span>Admiral Frank Bradley arrives for a closed-door meeting with lawmakers today at the Capitol.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Andrew Harnik \/ Getty Images<\/span>
Read the full story here.<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., will swear in Rep.-elect Matt Van Epps\u00a0at 9 a.m.
Van Epps won a Tennessee special election<\/a> earlier this week. The seat was vacated when former Republican Rep. Mark Green resigned earlier this year.
Once Van Epps is sworn in, Republicans will have 220 members and Democrats remain at 213 members. Republicans will again lose a member in January, when Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia has said she will resign.
Senate Democrats, led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., will unveil their health care plan at a press conference this afternoon on Capitol Hill.\u00a0
In a statement shared with NBC News, Schumer said Democrats\u2019 plan will \u201cprotect ACA tax credits,\u201d referring to the Affordable Care Act, and \u201clower costs for millions of Americans.\u201d\u00a0
The Democratic plan does not currently have buy-in from Republicans. NBC\u00a0reported\u00a0<\/a>this week that hopes of a bipartisan deal to address rising insurance premiums under Obamacare are fizzling among lawmakers in both parties.
The Democratic effort to address expiring ACA tax credits was a central issue in their fight with Republicans over a short-term extension of government funding, leading to the longest-ever government shutdown, which ended earlier this month.
Trump will hold a trilateral meeting this morning with the leaders of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo and sign a “historic peace and economic agreement that he brokered,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said earlier this week.
The meeting comes months after the two countries<\/a> signed a U.S.-facilitated peace agreement in June to push for an end to decades of fighting. The agreement will help the U.S. to gain access to critical minerals in the area.\u00a0
Reuters reported<\/a> that both sides have accused each other recently of violating a ceasefire.
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