Today is Thursday, Dec. 4, the 338th day of 2025. There are 27 days left in the year.

On Dec. 4, 2016, a North Carolina man fired several shots from an assault rifle inside Comet Ping Pong, a Washington, D.C., pizzeria, as he attempted to investigate an online conspiracy theory that prominent Democrats were harboring child sex slaves at the restaurant; no one was hurt, and the man surrendered. (Edgar Maddison Welch was later sentenced to four years in prison; in 2025, police shot and killed him during a traffic stop in which officials said he pulled out a handgun and pointed it at one of the officers.)

In 1783, Gen. George Washington bade farewell to his Continental Army officers at Fraunces Tavern in New York.

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