House Republicans snuffed out House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's bid to accept President Donald Trump's demand for $2,000 stimulus checks for Americans – failing to accept the offer in a rare Christmas Eve session and forcing the proposal to get shelved on a parliamentary move. After the defeat of the move to try to advance the president's late-in-the-game demand, the House formally enrolled the mammoth 5,593-page bill to provide relief and keep the government from shutting down. With Trump already in Mar-a-Lago, where he played a round of golf Thursday after releasing an official schedule saying he had 'many meetings and...