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Mark Burnett and President-elect Donald J. Trump had a long and successful collaboration that made Mr. Trump a household name.

President Biden’s signature, while technically coming after the midnight deadline for a shutdown, ensured that there would be no lapse in government funding.

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The Senate passed the measure, sending it to President Biden’s desk, shortly after the midnight deadline for funding to lapse.

The decision to withdraw the regulations seemed to be an acknowledgment that they would go nowhere under the Trump administration.

The president-elect is eager to evade responsibility for the consequences of a potential shutdown even as he blew up a bipartisan deal that would have kept it open.

An opening will probably emerge for Democrats in four years, but it may not be what the party and pundits expect today.

A Pentagon spokesman said the increase was unrelated to the fall of President Bashar al-Assad to rebel forces in early December.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the president-elect’s pick for health secretary, has spent much of the week meeting with friendly Senate Republicans, including some who appear to be trying to institutionalize …