President-elect Trump's decision to nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary will put some of the former independent presidential candidate's most controversial views under deep scrutiny. Kennedy will need to win 50 Senate votes to get confirmed, and while that's far from impossible, a series of statements he's made in...

{beacon} Evening Report © Greg Nash House GOP seeks to bury Gaetz ethics report Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Friday the House Ethics Committee should not release the results of its investigation into former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), who has been tapped by President-elect Trump to be attorney general. Johnson said he’d personally talk...

President-elect Trump has made quick work of pulling together a Cabinet and group of senior aides for his incoming administration, roiling Washington with some of his more controversial picks in the process. Trump issued a flurry of nominations and appointments during his first full week as president-elect, sending lawmakers scrambling to react. Here are five...

A pair of Democratic senators called for a federal investigation into Elon Musk’s involvement in SpaceX’s federal contracts following reports the tech billionaire has been in regular contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin. In a letter sent Friday, Senate Armed Services Committee Chair Jack Reed (D-R.I.) and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) said Musk’s reported relations...

Sarah Matthews, a former spokesperson for President-elect Trump, said his recent Cabinet picks stem from him being “drunk on power.” In an MSNBC appearance Friday afternoon, Matthews said the narrative of Trump playing “4D chess” by making distracting nominations is “hilarious.” “That's not what's happening. He knows that he is drunk on power right now because...

Former President Clinton is revealing some of his "rules of politics," which include avoiding bringing "your feelings to work," never drinking in public and taking criticism "seriously but not personally." In an excerpt published Friday by People from his forthcoming memoir, "Citizen: My Life After the White House," the 42nd president discloses his "Clinton's Rules of Politics,"...

The cost of Pennsylvania's U.S. Senate recount is expected to top $1 million, and three counties appear to defy the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

FOX Business host Larry Kudlow will remain in his role, Fox News Media said, amid reports President-elect Trump was eyeing the economics expert for a role in the administration.

Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., has called for lawmakers to release an ethics report after a three-year probe into allegations against Matt Gaetz.

Democrats have been blasting President-elect Trump's cabinet appointments as unqualified, while many officials in the Biden administration have also been labeled with the term.