WashingtonFormer Proud Boys chairman Enrique Tarrio is requesting a presidential pardon from President-elect Donald Trump. Tarrio is currently serving 22 years in federal prison after being found guilty of seditious conspiracy in connection with the Capitol attack on January 6, 2021. On the fourth anniversary of the attack on January 6, Tarrio's attorney, Nayib Hassan, filed a letter to Trump requesting a full and complete presidential pardon. The president-elect has promised to pardon certain rioters after he takes office on January 20. Hassan claimed that Tarrio, 42, is "nothing more than a proud American that believes in true conservative values." Tarrio was depicted throughout the Government's case as a right-wing extremist who supported a neo-fascist militant organization, but Hassan ...

Washington According to Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González, who claims to have won a July presidential election and is acknowledged as president-elect by several nations, he met productively with U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday and is in communication with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. Days before President Nicolas Maduro, who has been declared the victor of the election by Venezuela's highest court and electoral body, is scheduled to take office for a third term, González is in Washington as part of a regional trip. Gonz lez told reporters following the White House meeting, "We had a long, fruitful, and cordial conversation with President Biden and his team." Our staff communicates with President Trump's team. Gonz lez also stated that he anticipates a close connecti...

The city of PhiladelphiaBefore the retired All-Pro lineman drove around the city in his Eagles helmet automobile while wearing his Super Bowl parade Mummer's costume, Jason Kelce chatted with the Linc, and the steel and concrete of the Philadelphia Eagles' home stadium responded with a motivational speech. Before the first day of his new employment, he parked the modified golf cart and threw the keys in a ZZ Top fashion. Then, at the beginning of his monologue, he used an expletive. The most recent host to crash late-night television is a little more raw than the conventional suit-and-tie joke tellers, so roll out the Chug Machine, fly, F-bombs, fly, and save a seat for Sir Charles. For the first of five episodes of They Call It Late Night with Jason Kelce on ESPN, Jason Kelce hosted a lat...

Washington Members of Congress were heavily guarded Monday as they certified Trump's 2024 election victory, guaranteeing that the first president to be charged with federal felonies will return to the White House in two weeks. This comes four years after Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol in support of his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss. Trump will take the oath of office as the 47th president of the United States on January 20 by passing through the Lower West Tunnel, which saw some of the worst carnage during the attack on January 6, 2021. Trump has promised to pardon an unspecified number of Jan. 6 defendants when he takes office. Trump was charged with four felonies in connection with Jan. 6 and his attempts to overturn his 2020 election defeat. However, even as th...

When asked by NBC News about overseeing the certification of the 2024 election, Vice President Kamala Harris made a straightforward statement as she entered the Senate floor on Monday: Democracy wins out. A few minutes later, Harris prevailed, guiding Congress's unanimous support for Donald Trump's reelection and the electoral vote she lost. Harris clasped her hands in front of her and looked straight ahead as the four senators alternately read aloud the state-by-state electoral totals. Both when the vote total hit the threshold to declare Trump the next president and when her party gave her a standing ovation upon hearing her vote number, she smiled broadly. Harris and President Joe Biden, her predecessor on the campaign trail, also repeated this message to voters on January 6. They oppo...

Sports firebrand on television for a long time A complaint filed by a former Fox Sports hairstylist accuses Skip Bayless of repeatedly making unwanted sexual advances and offering $1.5 million in exchange for sex. Bayless, who was a Fox Sports host at the time, is accused in the lawsuit, which was filed in Los Angeles on Friday, of attempting to coerce plaintiff Noushin Faraji into having sex, including reportedly promising her $1.5 million for sex after she disclosed to him that she had experienced a cancer scare in 2021. Front Office Sports was the first to report on the case. People who have publicly identified themselves, as Faraji has done in the lawsuit, are usually not identified by NBC News when they are accused of sexual misconduct. "We take these allegations seriously and have no...

In what will probably be several "Black Monday" firings in professional football, the Jacksonville Jaguars fired Super Bowl-winning coach Doug Pederson. The NFL's somber yearly tradition of identifying fall men for a failed 2024 season ended Sunday, with Pederson and Jerod Mayo of New England suffering the first casualties. Shortly after finishing their 4-13 season, the Patriots made a snap decision by firing rookie head coach Mayo on Sunday. In the post-Bill Belichick era, Patriots owner Robert Kraft expressed regret for abandoning Mayo with a decimated roster. "I am responsible for this entire situation," Krusk told reporters on Monday. "Because I put Jerod in an unworkable scenario, I feel awful for him. I am confident that he has all the resources necessary to succeed in this league a...

WASHINGTON — Exactly four years after Donald Trump incited a crowd that stormed the Capitol in an unsuccessful attempt to stop the certification of his 2020 election loss and maintain his hold on power, Congress officially acknowledged his 2024 triumph on Monday. In the midst of a citywide snow emergency declaration, Vice President Kamala Harris presided over the certification of her defeat, which proceeded without incident. Just before the certification, Harris told NBC News that the people must defend democracy. For live coverage, follow along. The designees counted each state's electoral votes for the victorious candidates one by one. Currently serving as a senator from Ohio, vice president-elect JD Vance observed from the first row of the chamber. Speaker Mike Johnson, who assisted in ...

Following the president's announcement that he was obstructing a potential sale for the venerable American producer, U.S. Steel and the Japanese company that had attempted to purchase it are suing the Biden administration. When President Joe Biden declared on Friday that he would not permit the transaction to proceed, U.S. Steel and Japan's Nippon Steel said in a statement on Monday that Biden "ignored the rule of law" to curry favor with United Steelworkers, the union that represents many of U.S. Steel's employees. In addition, U.S. Steel and Nippon announced that they were suing David McCall, the union president, and Cleveland-Cliffs, the leader of a competing mining company in Ohio, alleging that they had unlawfully conspired to thwart the deal. A $14 billion offer by Nippon Steel to ac...