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Auchincloss: Senate must reject ‘dangerous’ RFK Jr. as HHS head

Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-Mass.) urged the Senate to reject Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the Secretary of Health and Human Services in a Friday op-ed for the Boston Globe. “Now Donald Trump is setting Kennedy up to “go wild” as secretary of health and human services. Kennedy is not just unqualified, he is dangerous —...

Former Defense secretary: Women ‘vital’ in combat 

Former Defense Secretary William Cohen underscored the importance of having women in the military, including in combat roles, as President-elect Trump's pick for Defense secretary has come under fire for suggesting women should be removed from certain military positions. "Women in combat today, they are vital to our defense, and it's not as if we're...

After a Friday night flurry, Trump’s Cabinet is complete

At 6:52 p.m. on Friday, President-elect Donald Trump announced his choice for Treasury secretary. Minutes later, he tapped a director for the Office of...

Democrats more pessimistic about party after Trump triumph

A new survey shows that Democrats are pessimistic about the future of their party following former President Donald Trump's seismic victory over Vice President Kamala Harris this month.

John McCain might be dead, but daughter Meghan says she still voted for him

Meghan McCain vowed to support neither former President Donald Trump nor Vice President Kamala Harris during the recent election, instead making an unlikely choice.

Lawmakers press Biden to provide storm-hit North Carolinians with shelter

Republicans representing North Carolina urged President Biden to waive regulations and let hurricane-wracked residents receive temporary housing as winter nears.

Blinken heads to last G7 meeting of Biden presidency with Ukraine and Mideast topping the agenda

Secretary of State Antony Blinken is leaving Saturday on a diplomatic trip to Europe that includes a meeting of foreign ministers from the leading industrialized nations that will focus on the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East.

White House mostly mum after defeat

The White House has taken its show largely behind closed doors after Vice President Harris’s stinging defeat to Donald Trump. Harris has all but disappeared from the public eye, jetting off to Hawaii after a few scarce appearances around Washington following her massive loss on Nov. 5. President Biden, meanwhile, managed to keep the press...

Trump taps Brooke Rollins to head USDA

President-elect Trump announced that he will nominate Brooke Rollins to be the Secretary of Agriculture on Saturday, building upon a hefty list of Cabinet picks. “Brooke’s commitment to support the American Farmer, defense of American Food Self-Sufficiency, and the restoration of Agriculture-dependent American Small Towns is second to none,” Trump wrote in a release, lauding...

Trump rounds out health team with CDC, FDA picks

President-elect Trump rounded out his health team for his upcoming White House term by announcing his Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Federal Drug Administration (FDA) and surgeon general picks on Friday.  In a flurry of administration announcements on Friday, Trump said he tapped Johns Hopkins’s surgeon, Marty Makary, to lead the FDA. The...

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