Mitch McConnell Is Ready to Pick His Own Fights After Senate Leadership

Breaking down Trump's latest administration picks and his Biden meeting

President-elect Donald Trump selected Congressman Matt Gaetz of Florida as attorney general and former Democratic Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii as the director of national intelligence. CBS ...

Trump names RFK Jr. as his pick for secretary of health and human services

President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday named Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. If confirmed, Kennedy would be in charge of the Centers for ...

Trump Picks Todd Blanche, His Defense Lawyer, to Be Deputy Attorney General

Mr. Blanche, a former supervising federal prosecutor in Manhattan, oversaw the president-elect’s legal defense against multiple indictments.

Top stories - The New York Times - November 15

What Donald Trump’s Team Picks Say About His Foreign Policy

The world has changed since Donald J. Trump’s last term as president. Mark Landler, the London bureau chief of The New York Times, describes what Mr. Trump’s choices so far say about his foreign ...

Top stories - The New York Times - November 15

What Trump's Cabinet picks reveal about his governing priorities

With a little more than two months until Inauguration Day, President-elect Donald Trump is moving at a rapid pace naming who he wants in his administration, and many of the choices have ...

Trump’s Cabinet Picks, Panned in Washington, Thrill Many of His Voters

Where Donald J. Trump’s critics see underqualified nominees with questionable judgment, his voters described them as mavericks recruited to shake up Washington.

Top stories - The New York Times - November 16

Trump names former wrestling executive Linda McMahon as his pick for education secretary

McMahon, a former professional wrestling executive who is co-chair of Trump's transition team, led the Small Business Administration during Trump's first term.

Politics - NBC News - November 20

Trump’s cabinet picks are agents of his contempt, rage and vengeance | Sidney Blumenthal

With them, Trump will tear down any person or institution that tried to restrain his worst impulses or hold him accountable. “Shock” suddenly became the most commonly uttered word in habitually ...

World - The Guardian - November 20

Trump FCC Pick Brendan Carr Wants to Be the Speech Police. That’s Not His Job

Brendan Carr wrote the Project 2025 chapter on the Federal Communications Commission. Now Donald Trump has tapped him to run the agency.

Tech - Wired - November 20

Is Trump More Flexible on China Than His Hawkish Cabinet Picks Suggest?

President-elect Donald J. Trump is assembling a team of aides bent on confrontation with China. But he also has advisers who do business there, including Elon Musk.

World - The New York Times - 6 days ago

Trump Cabinet picks: Here’s who’s on the list to carry out his agenda

President-elect Trump has assembled his Cabinet, and senior staff positions are filling up for his second term in the White House before taking office in January. Trump has nominated leaders for 15 ...

Politics - The Hill - 2 days ago

What Trump’s ‘shocking’ Cabinet picks reveal about his next administration

Donald Trump’s appointments are emblematic of his presidency: unpredictable, polarizing and steeped in his outsider ethos.

Politics - The Hill - Yesterday

The Spin | The magic of Mitch Santner and New Zealand’s historic series win in India

Bowler’s superb display to end India’s 12-year home dominance followed Kiwis’ glorious sporting weekend . Mitchell Santner bowls in his contact lenses but bats in his glasses. It feels like part of ...

World - The Guardian - October 30

Trump and the lure of strongman leadership

The president-elect has fundamentally shifted the norms and ideology of American politics

World - Financial Times - November 7

Tough votes on Trump Cabinet picks could pose big risks for midterm Senate candidates

Lawmakers running for reelection loathe tough votes. And for senators up in purple states in two years, those tough votes are coming early.

GOP senator says he supports recess appointments for Trump’s Cabinet picks as a ‘last resort’

Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin (Okla.) says on Meet the Press that he would support recess appointments, which would allow President-elect Trump to bypass the Senate confirmation process for his ...

Politics - NBC News - November 17

Senate Democrats seek evidence from FBI sex-trafficking probe of Trump AG pick Matt Gaetz

The House Ethics panel is mulling whether to release a report on alleged sexual misconduct by Matt Gaetz, whom Donald Trump wants to run the Justice Department.

Business - CNBC - November 20

Sunday shows preview: Trump woos Senate GOP with Cabinet picks; Democrats brace for full minority

President-elect Trump's Cabinet and senior staff for his upcoming administration are coming into focus as Democrats prepare for a full minority in both chambers of Congress and The White House. ...

Politics - The Hill - 4 days ago

GOP senator says Americans 'don't care' who conducts background checks for Trump Cabinet picks

Republican Sen. Bill Hagerty suggested that Americans don't care about traditional FBI background checks for President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet picks as Democrats call for deeper vetting of ...

Politics - NBC News - 2 days ago

Senators urge FIFA not to pick Saudi Arabia as World Cup host over human rights risks

Two United States senators have urged FIFA not to pick Saudi Arabia as the 2034 World Cup host next month

Sports - ABC News - 2 days ago

The Nazis hated the Bauhaus. Now the AfD is picking a fight with its legacy too | Katja Hoyer

A state parliament debate about the design movement shows how fear of ‘un-German’ ideas is being revived for the 21st century. Katja Hoyer is a German-British historian and journalist The far ...

World - The Guardian - October 29

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