This was the 99th National Christmas Tree Lighting.

On this episode of Playbook Deep Dive, Playbook co-author Tara Palmeri talks to lobbyists about how they leverage their townhouses next to Congress for access and power.

The omicron variant has been discovered in at least five U.S. states as senators narrowly avoided a government shutdown. The latest COVID-19 updates.

So far, tensions between Washington and Moscow over Ukraine have been restricted to a war of words, but could it flare into something more dangerous?

The so-called “Alternative Mueller Report” mentioned in a book by Andrew Weissmann, a top prosecutor for special counsel Robert Mueller’s Trump-Russia investigation, has been found, according to the Justice Department.