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By Steve Contorno and Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — A common thread weaves through many of Donald Trump’s picks for his incoming…

By Kaanita Iyer, Katherine Dillinger and Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump on Friday announced his picks for critical…

By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump on Friday named former NFL player and White House official Scott Turner…

By Kaitlan Collins, Katie Lobosco and Gregory Krieg, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump on Friday threw a curveball to business-friendly…

By Kaitlan Collins, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump has selected Russell Vought as his pick to lead the Office of Management and…

CNN By Kristen Holmes, Sara Murray, Elisabeth Buchwald and Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump named billionaire Scott Bessent…

By Kristen Holmes, Sara Murray, Elisabeth Buchwald and Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump named billionaire Scott Bessent as…

By Sara Murray, Kristen Holmes and Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump’s hunt for a new FBI director is being complicated by…

By Katie Bo Lillis, Zachary Cohen and Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Tulsi Gabbard, Donald Trump’s pick to lead the intelligence community, was…

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court agreed Friday to wade into a fight over Congress’ ability to delegate power to federal agencies…

By Eve Brennan, Li-Lian Ahlskog Hou and Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — A Norwegian man working as a security guard for the US Embassy in Oslo…

By Kaitlan Collins, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump is expected to offer Kelly Loeffler the job of secretary of the Department of…

CNN By Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — Former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, who withdrew from consideration as President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for…

CNN By Kara Scannell, CNN New York (CNN) — The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial has adjourned his sentencing, which…

By Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — Former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, who withdrew from consideration as President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for…

By Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN (CNN) — In the aftermath of the 2024 elections, Democrats are less optimistic about their party’s future than…

By Kaitlan Collins, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump is considering shaking up the leadership at the FBI by firing the director and…

WTMJ, CNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — For Donald Trump, every defeat is just the catalyst for his next battle. No sooner had the…

By Hannah Rabinowitz, Kristen Holmes, Zachary Cohen, Steve Contorno, Evan Perez and Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — Hours after his first pick to…

By Gregory Krieg, CNN (CNN) — Democratic Sen. Bob Casey on Thursday conceded the high stakes Pennsylvania Senate race to Republican Dave…

CNN By Casey Tolan, Scott Glover and Sara Murray, CNN (CNN) — A California woman told police that Trump Cabinet pick Pete Hegseth physically…

By Katie Lobosco, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Free Application for Federal Student Aid, known as the FAFSA, officially opened Thursday for…

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — The FBI has seized multiple websites that North Korean operatives used to impersonate legitimate US and Indian…

By Tierney Sneed and Ted Barrett, CNN (CNN) — Senate leaders have reached a deal that will smooth the path for Democrats to confirm several of…

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — A high-ranking member of a Mexican drug cartel who allegedly faked his own death and has been living in…

CNN By Paula Reid and Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — The woman who says she had sex when she was a minor with then-Rep. Matt Gaetz told the House…

CNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — For Donald Trump, every defeat is just the catalyst for his next battle. No sooner had the…

By Eric Bradner, Kristen Holmes, Alayna Treene, Lauren Fox, Sarah Ferris and Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — When Vice President-elect JD Vance and…

By Paula Reid and Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — The woman who says she had sex when she was a minor with then-Rep. Matt Gaetz told the House Ethics…

CNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — For Donald Trump, every defeat is just the catalyst for his next battle. No sooner had the…

By Annie Grayer and Haley Talbot, CNN (CNN) — House GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene announced that she will chair a new oversight subcommittee…

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN Washington (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump’s team is gaming out an aggressive strategy toward Latin America…

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump’s return to power is creating a reality television-like competition for attention among a group of…

By Katie Bo Lillis, Jeremy Herb and Daniel Strauss, CNN (CNN) — In 2020, the woman who has become Donald Trump’s pick to be the nation’s…

By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Nick Begich’s flip of Alaska’s lone House seat will pad Republicans’ slim House majority — but with…

By Casey Tolan, Scott Glover and Sara Murray, CNN (CNN) — A California woman told police that Trump Cabinet pick Pete Hegseth physically…

By Alayna Treene and Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — After rarely being seen in public in the two weeks since he delivered a brief, 46-second…

By Clare Foran, CNN (CNN) — The Senate on Wednesday voted down an effort led by Vermont independent Sen. Bernie Sanders to block a series of…

By Sarah Ferris, Annie Grayer and Manu Raju, CNN (CNN) — Republicans on the House Ethics Committee fell in line behind GOP leaders and voted…

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — Senate Democrats have confirmed some of President Joe Biden’s picks for the federal bench this week in the face…

By Kristen Holmes, Holmes Lybrand and Jamie Gangel, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump is considering a right-wing media personality, people who have…

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — Two Georgia election workers who won a massive verdict against Rudy Giuliani because he defamed them after the…

By Sara Murray and Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — A Democratic election official in Pennsylvania offered an impassioned apology Wednesday for…

By Jennifer Hansler, Hannah Rabinowitz and Kate Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Matthew Whitaker, who served as…

By Betsy Klein, CNN Washington (CNN) — With just two months until he leaves office, President Joe Biden is gearing up to utilize his…

By Tami Luhby and Matt Egan, CNN (CNN) — Ensuring the US doesn’t default on its obligations. Extending trillions of dollars in tax cuts…

By Rene Marsh, Kristen Holmes and Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency, a…

By Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — On one side of the Capitol, Republican Rep. Nancy Mace vowed to “stand in the way” of Democratic Rep.-elect…

By Oren Liebermann and Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration has approved sending anti-personnel mines to Ukraine for the…

By Kaitlan Collins, CNN (CNN) — Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, told Republicans on a prayer call…

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — Two women who claim they were paid for sex by former Rep. Matt Gaetz provided House ethics investigators with…

CNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — Thanksgiving dinner will cost less this year amid reduced demand for turkeys, an annual survey found. The…

By Kristen Holmes, Kaitlan Collins and John Towfighi, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump has named his transition co-chair Linda McMahon…

CNN By Kristen Holmes, Kaitlan Collins and Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump announced Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Howard Lutnick as his…

By Tami Luhby, Kate Sullivan and Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump has picked Dr. Mehmet Oz to serve as the administrator…

CNN By Paula Reid, Kara Scannell, Jeremy Herb and Lauren del Valle, CNN (CNN) — The Manhattan district attorney’s office said Tuesday it…

CNN By John King, CNN Kellerton, Iowa (CNN) — Shanen Ebersole believes if people better understood her life they would better understand her…

By John King, CNN Kellerton, Iowa (CNN) — Shanen Ebersole believes if people better understood her life they would better understand her…

By Sarah Ferris, Manu Raju and Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — Former Rep. Matt Gaetz is quietly urging GOP senators to give him a chance to prove…

By Kayla Tausche and Kevin Liptak, CNN Rio de Janeiro (CNN) — A major decision by the United States to allow Ukraine to fire long-range…

By Paula Reid, Kara Scannell, Jeremy Herb and Lauren del Valle, CNN (CNN) — The Manhattan district attorney’s office said Tuesday it would…

By Kevin Liptak and Kayla Tausche, CNN Rio de Janeiro (CNN) — President Joe Biden’s exit from the world stage this week was less of a…

By Haley Britzky and Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — China rejected a meeting with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin during a conference in southeast…

By Kristen Holmes, Kaitlan Collins and Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump announced Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Howard Lutnick as his pick…

CNN By Morgan Rimmer, Manu Raju and Haley Talbot, CNN (CNN) — A House Republican is pushing to ban transgender women from women’s restrooms…

By Hannah Rabinowitz and Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — Attorney General Merrick Garland, nearing the end of his tenure leading the Justice…

CNN By Mary Kay Mallonee, CNN (CNN) — The former Federal Emergency Management Agency employee who was fired earlier this month after being…

By Mary Kay Mallonee, CNN (CNN) — The former Federal Emergency Management Agency employee who was fired earlier this month after being accused…

By Sarah Ferris and Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — Hakeem Jeffries nearly became House speaker. Instead, he’s steering the Democratic Party…

By Morgan Rimmer, Manu Raju and Haley Talbot, CNN (CNN) — A House Republican is pushing to ban transgender women from women’s restrooms at…

By Tierney Sneed and Paula Reid, CNN (CNN) — Two women testified to the House Ethics Committee that they were paid for “sexual favors” by…

By Kristen Holmes, Annie Grayer, Sarah Ferris and Manu Raju, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump is doubling down on his efforts to ensure…

By Arit John and Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — Just two weeks after a bruising presidential election, the race to lead the Democratic Party has…

By Kate Sullivan and Alexandra Skores, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump announced Monday he has selected former congressman and recent…

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — A Russian man has been extradited from South Korea to the US to face charges in connection with a ransomware gang…

By Kayla Tausche, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump is casting a wider net for Treasury secretary after jockeying among his top two…

By Betsy Klein, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Biden administration is sending a roughly $100 billion request to Congress to help Americans…

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration on Monday imposed sanctions on Israel’s largest settlement development organization…

By Kevin Liptak, CNN Rio de Janeiro (CNN) — Donald Trump’s influence is already causing behind-the-scenes drama as Group of 20 talks are…

By Paula Reid and Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — Accounts of parties involving drugs, alcohol and young women that were allegedly attended by…

CNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump is refusing to back down over his Cabinet picks in the first clash in an epic…

By Kevin Liptak, CNN Rio de Janeiro (CNN) — When President Joe Biden worked to burnish his climate legacy in the Brazilian Amazon on Sunday,…

By Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN (CNN) — Support for deporting undocumented immigrants has grown since Donald Trump was last in office, a review of…

CNN By Kevin Liptak, Natasha Bertrand and Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden has authorized Ukraine to use powerful long-range…

By Kevin Liptak, Natasha Bertrand and Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden has authorized Ukraine to use powerful long-range…

By Katie Lobosco and Devan Cole, CNN Washington (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump has laid out some big changes for education in the US.…

CNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump is refusing to back down over his Cabinet picks in the first clash in an epic…

By Hannah Rabinowitz, Steve Contorno, Annie Grayer, Paula Reid, Evan Perez and Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — When President-elect Donald Trump…

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — The cryptocurrency industry’s leading super PACs plowed $131 million into congressional races this election…

By Kaanita Iyer, Zachary Cohen and Kaitlan Collins, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump’s defense secretary pick, Pete Hegseth, paid a…

By Kristen Holmes, Lauren Fox, Pamela Brown, Jamie Gangel and Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump is pressing forward with…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday named Chris Wright, the CEO of Denver-based fracking company Liberty…

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Seeking to woo targeted groups of voters during his campaign, President-elect Donald Trump rolled out plans for a…

By Gregory Krieg, CNN (CNN) — For Democratic pro-Palestinian activists, Donald Trump’s reelection delivered a bitter vindication. Led by the…

By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump is set to make his return to Madison Square Garden on Saturday night, visiting the…

By Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — In mid-September, as tech billionaire Elon Musk intensified his efforts to elect Donald Trump as president, a…

By Kevin Liptak and Kayla Tausche, CNN Lima, Peru (CNN) — President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, closed the book on their…

By Priscilla Alvarez and Phil Mattingly, CNN Washington (CNN) — The incoming Trump administration’s plans to implement strict border…