Trump, Amtrak, Instant Pot: Your Monday Evening Briefing

2017-12-20 0

Trump, Amtrak, Instant Pot: Your Monday Evening Briefing
And don’t miss Your Morning Briefing, posted weekdays at 6 a.m. Eastern, and Your Weekend Briefing, posted at 6 a.m. Sundays.
It’s been a dark couple of days for transportation in the U.S. An Amtrak passenger train
on a new high-speed route derailed on a highway overpass in Washington State.
Engineers expanding Rome’s subway have found a wealth of artifacts — some dating back
to the Paleolithic era — as they build a new line to the city’s eastern suburbs.
Your Evening Briefing is posted at 6 p.m. Eastern.
At one station scheduled to open early next year, archaeologists found bits of ancient capitals, decorative marble elements, petrified peach pits from ancient Persian cuttings
and 16th-century terra-cotta plates from a nearby hospital.
Today on "The Daily," our Pentagon reporter describes how a tip led her to a four-hour meeting in
a nondescript hotel lobby in Washington with the intelligence officer in charge of the program.