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Announced maj cuts to the number of active duty arm troops. Certain planes and programs are also on the chopping block. The defense secretary says he is vowing to economic realities in a way that will maintain military readiness. It has been a disappointing day at the Supreme Court if you are a gun rights activist. The justices have now decided not to review the three cases concerning gun rights. Two of the cases involve laws preventing 18 to 20yearolds from buying, carrying hand guns and that t...

4,000 pages of memos and this could shed light on everything from the push from Health Care Reform to the early struggle against al qaeda. These papers could also have an impact on the next race for the white house. The memos will give us insight into Hilary Clinton as first lady and could provide juicy details for her opponents to use a little later. Keep this in mind. This is the beginning. 33,000 pages could be released over the course of the next month. Lets talk about this and what we are l...

The president is cagey as world crisis escalate in syria, a dozen americans fighting for isis. Inside ukraine, the draft is back as russia amps up the invasion. Tra tra tracie potts is in washington. Reporter we has to decide what to do and when. Isis in syria is very dangerous. Experts have said this is bad news. But president obama says the u. S. Is not ready to act, not yet. I dont want to put the cart before the horse. We dont have a strategy yet. Reporter the u. S. Has hit more than a hundr...

Congress before i know exactly what it is that is going to be required for us to get the job done. White House Press Secretary josh ernest clarified that the president was referring to syria. And there is a clear plan for isis in iraq. But the chair of the House Intelligence Committee was extremely troubled. This is so frustrating that with all of this going on, the all the intelligence showing us the problems that are there, the president says i want a strategy how too deal with this by the end...

It may look tranquil but there is a lot of tense talk for president obama and the leader of china. If that is not enough, sprinkle in changes who lately is his most enthusiastic antagonizer. And dozens of students went missing and some claiming now they were murdered. The very latest on acapulco and disappearance and dismay there. Just over an hour from now, the last known case of ebola in this country, dr. Craig spencer set to be released with a clean bill of health from the new york City Hospi...

From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with brian williams. Good evening. As desperately as they need the rain, these are desperate hours in parts of the state of california tonight. A huge western storm caused the need for fastwater rescues today. Rampant flooding, power outages, mud and rock slides. Local rain bursts have brought up to two inches of rain in an hour, way more than the ground can handle. Some of it falling on land where wildfires have left nothing...

At least nine of the grand jurors have to agree for an dime in this case. When will there be an announcement . These are questions keeping the community and, really the country on edge. Overnight protesters marched, blocking traffic in ferguson, relatively calm but for this incident. We have to go home. I know, you will be here a minute, bro. Reporter while shooting this video, matt pierce, l. A. Times reporter, was struck in the head by a small object. I didnt see anybody throw anything. I didn...

One of the problems with being there currently is the white house is micromanaging everything that happens at the pentagon. It was difficult for them to do under robert gates. Almost impossible to do as we have seen in his book with leon panetta. They saw hagel as an easy target and easily manipulated. Even people here in the building thought it was an uneasy fit from the beginning. There were questions being raised here. Is he set up as a sacrificial lamb for what some think is a challenged For...

Why would anybody want to work for this government overseas. This torture report, the rules for engagement for our soldiers, we enjoy the double of freedom thanks to stuff we dont see, stuff we dont want the see, tactics that arent for spin the bottle. But to protect civilization within hours. The cia understands this, god bless them. If the country were under attack, wouldnt if we let the media control what remains on the table, there would be no damned table. So we were warned that this report...

The streets here. Two cops were injured. Well have all the latest details on that ahead. But, first, this morning, we start in the United States senate with the headline isnt that senators passed a funding bill last night to keep the government open for business, the headline is how they passed it. Everything they went on behind the scenes all through yesterday and late into the night to make that vote ohappen. If the story before this weekend was all about Elizabeth Warren then a similar charac...