Tim Scott drops out of the 2024 presidential race ( www.nbcnews.com )
Americans are unusually down on a solid economy. So far, they aren't spending — or voting — like it. ( www.nbcnews.com )
'We're ungovernable': House Republicans nix votes on two funding bills as shutdown deadline nears ( www.nbcnews.com )
House Republicans closed out the week by canceling votes on two party-line funding bills in the span of 48 hours, a setback for new Speaker Mike Johnson and a sign of persisting dysfunction in the chamber ahead of a key funding deadline....
Republican senator Josh Hawley calls for TikTok ban, cites influence on Israel-Hamas war opinions ( www.nbcnews.com )
RFK Jr. comes ‘home’ to his anti-vaccine group, commits to ‘a break’ for U.S. infectious disease research ( www.nbcnews.com )
At an anti-vaccine conference in Georgia on Friday, presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. confirmed his commitment to the cause and spoke to his base about how he, as president, would serve the movement he built....
PragerU buys 'takeover' ad on X as part of $1M campaign to promote polarizing 'Detrans' film ( www.nbcnews.com )
North Korea closes multiple embassies around the world ( www.nbcnews.com )
Jan. 6 rioter who wielded 2x4 wooden plank in Capitol sentenced to nearly 3 years in prison ( www.nbcnews.com )
A Colorado man who allegedly hit a police officer with a 2x4 wooden plank during the Jan. 6 riot was sentenced Friday to nearly three years in prison....
Who is Mike Johnson? Five things to know about the new Republican House speaker ( www.nbcnews.com )
The little-known Louisianan, who won on the first ballot, rallied objections to 2020 election certification, won Trump’s hedged support and has a solidly conservative voting record.
Family files lawsuit against Panera Bread after college student who drank ‘charged lemonade’ dies ( www.nbcnews.com )
Sarah Katz, 21, had a heart condition and was not aware of the drink’s caffeine content, which exceeded that of cans of Red Bull and Monster energy drinks combined, according to a legal filing
'I will never vote Biden': Some Muslim Americans in a key swing state feel betrayed by the president ( www.nbcnews.com )
Muslim and Arab Americans say their support was critical to Biden’s winning Michigan in 2020. Some warn they won’t back him again over his blanket support for Israel.
Judge in New York fraud trial threatens to jail Trump for violating gag order ( www.nbcnews.com )
Florida man found guilty of murdering wife after she refused to go on home renovation TV show ( www.nbcnews.com )
A jury convicted a Florida man of first-degree murder Wednesday in the 2018 strangling and beating death of his wife after she refused to appear on a home renovation reality TV show, prosecutors said....
Jim Jordan fails again to win speaker gavel in second vote, getting less support than first try ( www.nbcnews.com )
Fears rise as 3 maternity units prepare to close in Alabama ( www.nbcnews.com )
The state has one of the country’s highest maternal mortality rates. Now, three hospitals plan to stop delivering babies, putting some pregnant women at even higher risk.
Democrats refuse to help GOP out of House speaker mess, trashing Jim Jordan as an 'insurrectionist' ( www.nbcnews.com )
Democrats are standing firm in their refusal to bail out the House Republican majority as it struggles to elect a new speaker 10 days after after booting Rep. Kevin McCarthy....
House speaker live updates: Republicans nominate Scalise to be the next speaker ( www.nbcnews.com )
Rep. Steve Scalise, of Louisiana, defeated Rep. Jim Jordan, of Ohio, for the Republican nomination to be House speaker and replace Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein to be honored at a funeral service in San Francisco ( www.nbcnews.com )
Sen. Dianne Feinstein will be honored by President Joe Biden and other high-profile Democrats at a private funeral service Thursday in San Francisco....
Clarence Thomas recuses himself as Supreme Court rejects ex-Trump lawyer John Eastman's appeal ( www.nbcnews.com )
With this Supreme Court everything is about politics.
Before Jan. 6, the FBI predicted extremists would be 'very willing to take action' over a 2020 election dispute ( www.nbcnews.com )
An FBI "red cell" report predicted that law enforcement action and a "lack of coordination" between groups would prevent widespread violence in response to a disputed election....
New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez says he won't resign ( www.nbcnews.com )
Mitski says she doesn’t feel either fully Asian or American, and fans say they identify with that ( www.nbcnews.com )
Japanese American singer-songwriter Mitski Miyawaki says her identity is made up of “a million selves” that defy categorization — and fans are saying they find inspiration in that....
‘I plan to wear a bikini’: Senate Republicans mock changes to dress code ( www.nbcnews.com )
The candid reviews of the new rules, which went into effect Monday, even included mockery from Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, who joked to reporters that she planned to “wear a bikini” on Tuesday.
Majority Leader Chuck Schumer loosens Senate dress code to allow senators to wear whatever they want starting Monday ( www.nbcnews.com )
Death toll hits 11,300 in Libyan city destroyed by floods, more than 20,000 feared dead ( www.nbcnews.com )
Welcome to climate change. Thousand year floods every year are just the beginning of birth pangs. And - as scientists and NGOs have been warning us for years - the poorest countries have the least resiliency and their people will suffer most....
