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WASHINGTON — The House rejected a bill Thursday to keep the government funded temporarily, after Republican leaders reneged on an earlier bipartisan deal and made modifications to appease President-elect Donald Trump, billionaire Elon Musk and an internal GOP revolt. The vote was 174-235, with one Democrat voting present, falling far …

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 in past government shutdowns. It’s a point some shutdown proponents …

The Food and Drug Administration is changing the way food companies can claim their products are “healthy.” Fortified white bread is out, and fatty fish like salmon is in. Most everything in the grocer’s produce section — whole fruits and vegetables — would qualify under the new rule issued Thursday. …

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, NBC News was given access to one of those operations. …

What Relievant did not know at the time, according to emails obtained by NBC News through a records request to the university, was that at least 25 of the bodies the company used for these trainings were unclaimed. The Health Science Center received the bodies from two local counties.  As …

A California man was detained by the FBI and ordered to have his guns temporarily seized after he allegedly communicated with the 15-year-old shooter who killed two people at her Wisconsin school, documents show. The gun violence emergency protective order was served to a 20-year-old in Carlsbad in San Diego …

The mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey, was charged with witness tampering this week after he was accused of asking his daughter to “twist up” her previous abuse allegations against him to the police, prosecutors said. An Atlantic County grand jury indicted Mayor Marty Small Sr., 50, on Tuesday, County …

The Senate on Wednesday passed the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, a massive defense spending package that includes a ban on coverage of gender-affirming care for the transgender children of military service members. The vote in the Senate was 85 to 14, after the House last week passed the …

The incoming Trump administration is already making plans to harness the power of Immigration and Customs Enforcement to vastly increase the number of undocumented immigrants deported from the United States. But it faces an obstacle: ICE is already dealing with a $230 million budget shortfall, even before the costs that …

Talk about an intentional foul. A young Charlotte Hornets fan thought he was receiving a Christmas wish when he was gifted a coveted PlayStation 5 in front of a raucous crowd during Monday night’s game, but was crushed when the team took the video game console away from him backstage …