Trump picks Fox News host and Army veteran Pete Hegseth to serve as secretary of defense
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Continue ReadingCNN By Hannah Rabinowitz, Evan Perez and Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he has…
Continue ReadingBy Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday that veteran Republican lawyer Bill McGinley will serve as his…
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Kaczynski, CNN (CNN) — Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday was his pick to serve…
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Rabinowitz, Evan Perez and Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he has chosen…
Continue ReadingBy MJ Lee and Arlette Saenz, CNN Washington (CNN) — The families of US hostages captured by Hamas on October 7, 2023, remain in agony, waiting…
Continue ReadingBy Kit Maher and Kevin Liptak, CNN Washington (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he has nominated former Arkansas Gov.…
Continue ReadingBy Paula Reid, Kara Scannell, Lauren del Valle and Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — New York Judge Juan Merchan on Tuesday agreed to give Manhattan…
Continue ReadingCNN By Katie Lobosco, CNN Washington (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to abolish the Department of Education. On the campaign…
Continue ReadingBy John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday turned away an appeal from John Nassif, a January 6 defendant who challenged a law…
Continue ReadingBy John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court declined Tuesday to let Mark Meadows move his Georgia election subversion case to federal court,…
Continue ReadingBy Kylie Atwood and Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken heads to Brussels Tuesday as President-elect Donald…
Continue ReadingBy Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — Plenty of House Republicans are privately jockeying for President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet. There’s one…
Continue ReadingBy Sarah Ferris, Lauren Fox and Clare Foran, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump won’t arrive back at the White House until January. But the…
Continue ReadingBy Kayla Tausche, CNN (CNN) — Less than a week into the Trump transition – with some of the most critical personnel decisions still underway…
Continue ReadingBy Kaitlan Collins, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump has selected South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem as his next secretary of the Department…
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Hansler, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Israeli government has failed to meet criteria set out by the US to improve the humanitarian…
Continue ReadingBy Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN (CNN) — Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego will win a closely watched US Senate seat in Arizona, CNN projects,…
Continue ReadingCNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — Elon Musk wants to radically reshape who controls America’s money supply. The billionaire is among…
Continue ReadingBy Kaitlan Collins, Kristen Holmes and Kylie Atwood, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump is likely to pick Florida Sen. Marco Rubio as his…
Continue ReadingBy Kaitlan Collins and Jack Forrest, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump has asked Rep. Mike Waltz of Florida to serve as his national…
Continue ReadingCNN By Kristen Holmes and Betsy Klein, CNN Washington (CNN) — Melania Trump is not expected to attend the traditional White House meeting with…
Continue ReadingBy Arit John, CNN (CNN) — Republicans flipped the Senate, but Democratic candidates often outran the top of the ticket, winning at least four…
Continue ReadingBy Evan Perez and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — From his seaside Florida resort, Donald Trump is holding a casting call to fill the toughest…
Continue ReadingBy Kristen Holmes and Betsy Klein, CNN Washington (CNN) — Melania Trump is not expected to attend the traditional White House meeting with…
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed and Lauren Fox, CNN (CNN) — The first vote the lame-duck Senate will take as it returns Tuesday will be on a nominee for a…
Continue ReadingBy Alayna Treene, Kit Maher and Ella Nilsen, CNN West Palm Beach, Florida (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump has selected former New York…
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of Tim Pawlenty, former Republican governor of Minnesota. Personal Birth date:…
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of former Vermont Governor Howard Dean. Personal Birth date: November 17, 1948 Birth…
Continue ReadingBy Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump is expected to announce in the coming days that Stephen Miller, his top immigration…
Continue ReadingCNN By Tierney Sneed and Lauren Fox, CNN (CNN) — The first vote the lame-duck Senate will take as it returns Tuesday will be on a nominee for a…
Continue ReadingBy Gregory Krieg and Gloria Pazmino, CNN (CNN) — In the weeks after Democrats lost their House majority in 2022, party leaders in New York –…
Continue ReadingBy Arlette Saenz, CNN (CNN) — The White House is racing to dole out remaining funds appropriated from key legislation President Joe Biden…
Continue ReadingBy Oren Liebermann and Karina Tsui, CNN (CNN) — The United States has carried out a second consecutive night of strikes against Houthi targets…
Continue ReadingCNN By Kaitlan Collins and Colin McCullough, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump announced Sunday night that Tom Homan, who served as the…
Continue ReadingBy Kaitlan Collins, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump has named Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik as his pick for UN ambassador. “I am…
Continue ReadingBy Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — Mar-a-Lago is the epicenter of Donald Trump’s presidential transition, and foreign leaders, contractors and…
Continue ReadingCNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump is already flexing raw power, showing he may try to subvert…
Continue ReadingBy Kaitlan Collins and Colin McCullough, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump announced Sunday night that Tom Homan, who served as the…
Continue ReadingCNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump is already flexing raw power, showing he may try to subvert…
Continue ReadingBy Kaitlan Collins, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club has been brimming in the last 48 hours with two kinds of people: those angling…
Continue ReadingCNN Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump is already flexing raw power, showing he may try to subvert…
Continue ReadingBy Kate Sullivan, Manu Raju and Sam Fossum, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump is demanding Republican senators vying to be majority…
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, Rene Marsh, Gabe Cohen and Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Much of the federal workforce is on edge and bracing itself for the…
Continue ReadingBy Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN (CNN) — Americans heard starkly different messages about Donald Trump and Kamala Harris in the final days of the…
Continue ReadingBy John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has made clear she has no plans to step down, according to people close to…
Continue ReadingBy Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump loomed large over the federal courthouse in Washington, DC, last week as people who rioted at the US…
Continue ReadingBy Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump won across the map — improving on Republican margins nearly everywhere and…
Continue ReadingBy Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — Pick one word to describe Republicans and Donald Trump, the focus group moderator asked, and one word to…
Continue ReadingBy Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — The US carried out a series of strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen late Saturday evening, according to a US…
Continue ReadingBy Alex Marquardt, MJ Lee and Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN (CNN) — Qatar announced Saturday that it has paused its role as a mediator for a ceasefire…
Continue ReadingBy Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — The US government plans to appeal a military judge’s ruling that plea deals with the alleged 9/11 conspirators…
Continue ReadingBy Betsy Klein and Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump has not yet submitted a series of transition agreements with the…
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Waldenberg and Shania Shelton, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump will meet with President Joe Biden in the Oval Office on…
Continue ReadingBy John Fritze and Paula Reid, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump’s return to power is setting off a flurry of speculation and…
Continue ReadingWPTV, CNN By Steve Contorno, CNN West Palm Beach, Florida (CNN) — Dozens of people beamed alongside Donald Trump early Wednesday morning as he…
Continue ReadingBy Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Democratic governors and attorneys general are beginning to build a Resistance 2.0, talking tough and promising…
Continue ReadingBy CNN Staff, CNN (CNN) — We asked you how you were feeling about the outcome of the election. In the more than 2,000 reader responses sent to…
Continue ReadingBy Steve Contorno, CNN West Palm Beach, Florida (CNN) — Dozens of people beamed alongside Donald Trump early Wednesday morning as he was…
Continue ReadingBy Mary Kay Mallonee, CNN (CNN) — A Federal Emergency Management Agency employee has been fired after they advised their disaster relief team…
Continue ReadingBy Arit John, CNN (CNN) — Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen will win reelection in Nevada, CNN projects, holding off Republicans from adding to their…
Continue ReadingBy Haley Talbot and Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — Democratic Rep. Jared Moskowitz said Friday that local police in his Florida district notified him…
Continue ReadingBy MJ Lee, Kylie Atwood, Jennifer Hansler and Alex Marquardt, CNN (CNN) — Qatar agreed in recent weeks to kick Hamas out of its country…
Continue ReadingBy Ted Barrett, CNN (CNN) — Three Republican senators with a history as rabble-rousers are poised for the first time in their careers to chair…
Continue ReadingCNN By Natasha Bertrand and Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — Pentagon officials are holding informal discussions about how the Department of Defense…
Continue ReadingBy Sarah Ferris and Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — Frustrated swing-district House Democrats say they have warned for years that the party was at…
Continue ReadingCNN By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department on Friday announced federal charges in a thwarted Iranian plot to kill Donald…
Continue ReadingBy Natasha Bertrand and Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — Pentagon officials are holding informal discussions about how the Department of Defense…
Continue ReadingBy Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration is gearing up to make many changes to the federal workforce. We’d like to talk to federal…
Continue ReadingBy Natasha Bertrand, Haley Britzky and Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration has lifted a de facto ban on American military…
Continue ReadingBy Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department on Friday announced federal charges in a thwarted Iranian plot to kill Donald Trump…
Continue ReadingBy Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — Special counsel Jack Smith could have a decision by December 2 on how to resolve Donald Trump’s criminal case…
Continue ReadingBy Kayla Tausche, CNN Washington (CNN) — Just days after winning a comeback election, President-elect Donald Trump is evaluating how his…
Continue ReadingBy Arit John, CNN (CNN) — America did not elect Kamala Harris as its first female president this week, but Janet Edwards was grateful she got…
Continue ReadingBy Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump could be in a position to select the government’s top ethics czar when he…
Continue ReadingBy Sean Lyngaas and Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — Federal investigators are running down email addresses from Russian internet domains that were used…
Continue ReadingBy John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The roiling debate over the strength of democratic restraints to keep Donald Trump in check when he returns to the…
Continue ReadingCNN By Kaitlan Collins, CNN (CNN) — Almost immediately after it became clear that Donald Trump was on his way to reelection Tuesday night,…
Continue ReadingBy Kaitlan Collins, CNN (CNN) — Almost immediately after it became clear that Donald Trump was on his way to reelection Tuesday night, phones…
Continue ReadingBy Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Thursday struck down the Biden administration’s “parole in place” policy that gave legal…
Continue ReadingCNN By Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump announced on Thursday that his campaign manager, Susie Wiles, will be named his White House…
Continue ReadingBy Jeremy Herb, Kristen Holmes and Alayna Treene, CNN West Palm Beach, Florida (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump is reveling in his victory…
Continue ReadingCNN By Michael Williams, Kevin Liptak and MJ Lee, CNN Washington (CNN) — For years, President Joe Biden has used a single phrase to diminish…
Continue ReadingCNN By Katelyn Polantz, CNN New York (CNN) — Former Donald Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani has until the end of next week to give the lawyers of…
Continue ReadingBy Paula Reid, Kaitlan Collins and Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — The FBI has informed one of President-elect Donald Trump’s lead attorneys that…
Continue ReadingBy Katelyn Polantz, CNN New York (CNN) — Former Donald Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani has until the end of next week to give the lawyers of the…
Continue ReadingCNN Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump has promised to completely remake the US government and wield new…
Continue ReadingBy Kayla Tausche, CNN Washington (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump remains likely to allow Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to serve out…
Continue ReadingBy Michael Williams, Kevin Liptak and MJ Lee, CNN Washington (CNN) — For years, President Joe Biden has used a single phrase to diminish his…
Continue ReadingBy Annie Grayer and Michelle Shen, CNN (CNN) — Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly has esophagus cancer, the longtime Virginia congressman announced…
Continue ReadingBy Priscilla Alvarez and Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump’s allies and some in the private sector have been quietly preparing to…
Continue ReadingBy Sarah Ferris, Annie Grayer and Lauren Fox, CNN (CNN) — Republicans on Capitol Hill are laying the groundwork to push through an ambitious…
Continue ReadingBy Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — A military judge ruled on Wednesday that plea agreements between the alleged 9/11 conspirators at Guantanamo Bay…
Continue ReadingPOCATELLO, Idaho (KIFI)– The Republican Party saw some big wins in Bannock County Tuesday night. The Republican will take over seats held by…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Donald Trump spent his first day as president-elect receiving congratulatory phone calls from his…
Continue ReadingCNN By Kristen Holmes, Jeremy Herb, Kayla Tausche, Evan Perez and Kaitlan Collins, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump’s allies are…
Continue ReadingBy Kristen Holmes, Jeremy Herb, Kayla Tausche, Evan Perez and Kaitlan Collins, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump’s allies are quickly…
Continue ReadingCNN By Devan Cole, Paula Reid, Lauren del Valle, Kara Scannell, Jeremy Herb, Zachary Cohen and Sara Murray, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump has been…
Continue ReadingIdaho Republican National Committeeman Bryan Smith discusses his shockingly accurate election…
Continue ReadingCNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — As Democrats grapple with election night losses, Trump administration officials are ramping up…
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