The Senate Finance Committee will hold a confirmation hearing next Wednesday on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination to serve as Health and Human Services secretary.
Congress passed the first bill of the new Trump era on Wednesday, delivering on the president's immigration promises with legislation to push for detention and deportation of criminal migrants -- including those with relatively low-level offenses such as shoplifting.
Diversity, equity and inclusion policies are on the ropes after President Trump's executive order ending all affirmative action in federal contracting and shuttering DEI offices inside federal agencies.
President Trump on Wednesday signed an order sending 1,500 more troops to the U.S.-Mexico border, marking the start of what could become the largest military action in the southwest in more than a century.
President Trump was sworn into office for a second time on Monday before an audience in the Capitol that included his predecessor, former President Biden, as well as former Presidents Obama, Clinton and George W. Bush and multiple current and former officials and lawmakers. However, a few notable figures decided to skip Trump's inauguration. Here’s...
The Pentagon on Monday swore in Robert G. Salesses as the acting secretary of Defense while President Trump's nominee Pete Hegseth awaits Senate confirmation. Salesses was sworn in just after noon, according to a defense official. NBC News first reported on his swearing-in. Salesses is the deputy director of the Washington Headquarters Services at the...
Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), the two leaders of the now-disbanded Jan. 6 committee, thanked former President Biden for a pardon they said was “not for breaking the law but upholding it.” Just hours before leaving office, Biden announced he would issue pardons for all the members of the committee...
President Biden announced pardons for members of his family in the last minutes of his presidency, a shocking development as President-elect Trump’s inauguration is already underway. The blanket pardons were granted to his brother, James Biden; Sara Jones Biden, his sister-in-law; his sister, Valerie Biden Owens; John T. Owens, his brother-in-law; and Francis Biden, Biden’s other brother....
Some of the country's leading technology leaders are together at the Capitol Rotunda for President-elect Trump's inauguration as the industry gets closer to the incoming leader's orbit. Among those at the inauguration are Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon...
Cecile Richards, the former president of Planned Parenthood, died at the age of 67 on Monday after a battle with cancer. “This morning our beloved Cecile passed away at home, surrounded by her family and her ever-loyal dog, Ollie,” Richards’s family wrote in a statement. “Our hearts are broken today but no words can do...
President Biden on Sunday vowed that he’s “not going anywhere” even as he exits the Oval Office, urging Americans to “stay engaged” in remarks on his last trip as commander in chief. “We know the struggle for redeeming the soul of this nation is difficult and ongoing. The distance is short between peril and possibility....
With Donald Trump once again assuming power, McElroy and Trump are on a collision course when it comes to immigration, the environment and foreign policy.
President-elect Trump on Sunday vowed to release records related to former President John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassinations "in the coming days." “As a first step toward restoring transparency and accountability to government, we will also reverse the overclassification of government documents, and in the coming days, we are...
President-elect Trump is set to promise a “new era of national success” in his inaugural address, according to The Wall Street Journal. “I return to the presidency confident and optimistic that we are at the start of a thrilling new era of national success. A tide of change is sweeping the country,” a part of...
President-elect Trump will become the nation's 47th president on Monday, only the second man in the nation's history to return to the Oval Office after a hiatus. His inauguration is sure to usher in a flurry of actions that will unwind rules and standards set in the intervening President Biden era. He is planning to...
President Biden on Monday morning, just hours before President Trump's inauguration, granted pardons to Anthony Fauci, Gen. Mark Milley and former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wy.) and other members of the House panel that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021 attack. Biden said he was doing so to protect the public servants, who have all faced attacks...
President Biden's farewell address was a cliché-laden mess, yet the media coverage described it as a "speech for the history books" and a "defense of democracy" that "underscored the importance of American democracy and the need to protect it."
