Keeping Up With America | | Rep. Mike Johnson tells House Republicans Trump wants them to pass a single reconciliation bill: At a closed-door House Republican retreat Saturday morning, newly re-elected House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said President-elect Donald Trump was in favor of passing a single reconciliation bill that would address his priorities, including border security, energy and an extension of his signature 2017 tax law, two sources with direct knowledge told NBC News.
New Orleans attacker said in videos to his family that he considered killing them before joining ISIS: Experts said the details that have emerged about Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, align with the typical pattern of how a veteran can be radicalized to violence. A U.S. Army veteran from Texas who drove to Louisiana and deliberately plowed into New Year's revelers in New Orleans recorded videos during the drive addressed to his family, in which he talked about plans to kill them and told them he had joined ISIS.
Jimmy Carter's funeral begins by tracing 100 years from rural Georgia to the world stage: Carter's children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren accompanied his casket as his hearse rode first through his hometown of Plains, Georgia. Jimmy Carter's extended public farewell began Saturday in Georgia, with the 39th U.S. president's flag-draped casket tracing his long arc from the Depression-era South and family farming business to the pinnacle of American political power and decades as a global humanitarian. | Los Angeles County DA says he has not made a decision about resentencing Menendez brothers: The announcement came after what prosecutor Nathan Hochman said was a "productive" meeting with the brothers' relatives who support their release. Los Angeles County's top prosecutor said Friday that he had not made a decision about whether the prison sentences for Erik and Lyle Menendez, who are serving life without parole for the heavily publicized 1989 murders of their parents, should be reduced. | Justice Department urges Supreme Court to reject Trump's push to pause TikTok ban: The Justice Department on Friday urged the Supreme Court to reject President-elect Donald Trump's request to delay the implementation of a law that would effectively ban TikTok in the U.S. or force its sale by its Chinese parent company by Jan. 19. |
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