Today, Congress is scheduled to certify Trump's victory. Shgun and Emilia P. Rez win big at the Golden Globes in 2025. Additionally, half of the United States is being battered by a monster storm with dangerously freezing temperatures. What to know today is as follows. Congress gathers to certify Donald Trump s win four years after he inspired a riot Exactly four years after he incited a mob to attack the Capitol in an unsuccessful attempt to thwart the certification of his 2020 election loss and maintain his hold on power, Congress is set to convene today amidst a citywide snow emergency declaration to certify President-elect Donald Trump's 2024 victory. Despite Trump's failure to provide any proof that the election result was invalid, 147 Republicans voted in 2021 to overturn the...

While continuing to repel a fresh Ukrainian onslaught inside the Kursk area of western Russia, where a second day of intense fighting was underway, Russia stated Monday that its forces had achieved significant progress in eastern Ukraine. The town of Kurakhove, 20 miles south of Pokrovsk, a Ukrainian supply center that Russian forces have been moving toward for months, has been taken by its forces, according to the Russian defense ministry. According to the ministry, capturing Kurakhove, which has resisted for weeks, would allow Moscow's forces to accelerate their assault in the Donetsk region of Ukraine. The majority of Kurakhove was found to be in Russian control by the Ukrainian monitoring group DeepState, which uses open sources to track the front line. Russian forces were still attack...

Jerusalem Israel's national ambulance service, Magen David Adom (MDA), said that a gun attack on a car and bus in the village of Kedumim in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Monday killed three Israelis and injured numerous more. According to Israeli Army Radio, the IDF has cordoned off all of the adjacent communities in an effort to find the suspects, who it believes have fled to a Palestinian hamlet. Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, promised to hold those responsible and those who assisted them accountable. He wrote on X that no one would be spared. Palestinian authorities in the West Bank did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Although it denied responsibility, Hamas, the terrorist organization that has controlled the Gaza Strip and is present in the Wes...

Elon Musk abruptly withdrew his support for the Brexit campaigner who is attempting to upend the British political establishment once more, saying that Nigel Farage should resign as leader of Britain's right-wing Reform UK party. A new leader is required for the Reform Party. Musk stated on his social media site X on Sunday that Farage lacks the necessary skills, just hours after Farage called him a friend who made Reform appear "cool." Musk is a strong ally of the incoming US president.Last month, Donald Trump appeared to support Farage and posed for a picture with him. In last July's national election, Reform received five seats in parliament and 4.1 million votes, or 14% of the total. Farage has previously stated that he is in talks with Musk on the billionaire's donation to Reform in o...

Israel's leaders may not be the only ones who should be cautious about going overseas. Due to accusations of war crimes in Israel's attack on the beleaguered Palestinian enclave, troops who have served in Gaza now seem to be at an increased risk of being arrested themselves. One soldier on vacation in Brazil earlier this month fled the South American nation after a judge ordered federal police to conduct an investigation in response to a lawsuit accusing the soldier of war crimes in Gaza. The incident has caused outrage in Israel and praise overseas. After what it described as anti-Israel groups demanded an investigation last week, Israel's Foreign Ministry assisted the former soldier in leaving Brazil on a commercial airline, the ministry said in a statement shared with NBC News on Monday...

WASHINGTON — Exactly four years after he incited a mob that stormed the Capitol in an unsuccessful attempt to thwart the certification of his 2020 election loss and maintain his hold on power, Congress is set to convene Monday amidst a citywide declaration of snow emergency to certify President-elect Donald Trump's 2024 victory. Despite Trump's failure to provide any proof that the election was invalid, 147 Republicans voted four years ago to overturn the outcome and discount electors for President Joe Biden. Democrats do not intend to retaliate in kind this time. They plan to restore January 6 to its traditional status as a dull and routine ceremony where the president-elect is sworn in without any fanfare. Republicans applauded when House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., stated i...

In Sunday's NFL regular season finale, the Detroit Lions defeated the Minnesota Vikings 31-9, securing the NFC North championship and the top seed in the league. Following an opening-round bye, Detroit will hold home-field advantage for the duration of the playoffs. Jahmyr Gibbs was the Lions' standout running back on Sunday. In addition to 31 yards of receiving and another touchdown in the air, he had 139 yards and three touchdowns on the ground. In contrast, Jared Goff, the quarterback for the Lions, completed 27 of 33 throws for 231 yards, a touchdown, and two interceptions. Sam Darnold, the Vikings' signal caller, had trouble. He only threw for 166 yards and no touchdowns on 18 of his 41 attempts. SNF blog: Reflect on the game's progression In the red zone, Minnesota's offense particul...

In order to prevent an emboldened Pyongyang, South Korean Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said a North Korean missile test conducted during his visit to Seoul on Monday served as a reminder of the necessity of strengthening Washington's collaboration with South Korea and Japan. South Korea's military claims that at approximately noon local time (10 p.m. Sunday ET), North Korea launched what looked to be an intermediate-range ballistic missile that traveled more than 690 miles east before plummeting into the ocean. Blinken told a news conference a few hours later that the launch demonstrated the value of cooperation between the United States, South Korea, and Japan, including the sharing of real-time missile data and the conduct of trilateral military drills. He stated that today's launc...

President Joe Biden will prohibit new offshore gas and oil drilling along the majority of the U.S. coastline, the White House said Monday. "The order will preserve around 625 million acres of ocean along the Atlantic and Pacific coastlines of America, the Gulf of Mexico, and Alaska's Bering Sea from "environmental and economic risks and impacts," the White House said in a statement announcing the action. Additionally, it is an effort to shield Biden's climate legacy from the energy strategy that Republicans and President-elect Donald Trump plan to implement. Biden will make use of a little-known clause in the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA) of 1953 that allows the president to permanently remove unleased outer continental shelf lands. Monday's action is much larger and will be se...

Washington Members of Congress will be under strict security Monday as they certify Trump's 2024 election victory, guaranteeing the first president to be charged with a federal felony will return to the White House in two weeks. This comes four years after supporters of Donald Trump 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 via 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. (After Trum...