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Trump defense secretary pick Pete Hegseth is facing new questions tonight over a settlement he paid to a woman who accused him of sexual ass...

Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., on Sunday defended Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to lead the Department of He...

President-elect Trump has tapped oil industry CEO Chris Wright as energy secretary and part of his newly-formed energy council. Meanwhile, t...

More than half of Senate Republicans, including some in senior leadership positions, privately say they don’t see a path for former Rep.

The incoming Trump administration reportedly will punish the military officials involved in the pullout of troops from Afghanistan, which in...

President-elect Donald Trump said on Saturday that oil and gas industry executive Chris Wright, a staunch defender of fossil fuel use, would...

President-elect Donald Trump’s consistent campaign pledge to impose sweeping tariffs on products imported into the U.S. is likely to face st...

The Trump transition team is compiling a list of senior current and former U.S. military officers who were directly involved in the withdraw...

As the dust settles from Vice President Kamala Harris’ defeat at the hands of President-elect Donald Trump, Democrats are already jockeying...

In the days following the presidential election, a familiar strain of denialism and conspiracy thinking emerged in the corners of some socia...

Former officials and lawmakers fear Trump’s choice for director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, could bring a pro-Russian bias to i...

A woman told the House Ethics Committee that she saw Matt Gaetz, who is President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for the U.S. attorney general, h...

WASHINGTON — House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said Friday that he would "strongly request" that the House Ethics Committee not release a r...

President-elect Donald Trump chose Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health and human services secretary. The former Democratic and independent presi...

President-elect Donald Trump said he's nominating Todd Blanche, one of his criminal defense lawyers in the classified documents case, to be...

President-elect Donald Trump named anti-vaccine advocate and former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to run the Department of He...

President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday has nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an anti-vaccine activist who dropped out of the 2024 president...

Republican senators want details of the Ethics Committee investigation into Matt Gaetz after Trump selected him to run the Justice Departmen...

Matt Gaetz, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to run the Justice Department, has previously been investigated over allegations of sex traf...

Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., is calling on the House Ethics Committee to preserve and hand over "relevant" parts of their investigation into Ma...

President-elect Donald Trump's choice of Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz to serve as attorney general sent shockwaves through the Justice Department...

NBC News' senior legal correspondent Laura Jarrett discusses the impact Matt Gaetz, President-elect Trump's choice for attorney general, mig...

President-elect Donald Trump stunned Senate Republicans by announcing that he will nominate Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz as attorney general.

President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday said that he will nominate Tulsi Gabbard, a former House Democrat who became a high-profile Trump...

President-elect Donald Trump has selected Rep. Matt Gaetz to be the 87th attorney general of the United States, filling the critical top law...