Alaska's top-four ranked-choice voting system survived by a whisker in the November election, but supporters may not want to pop the champagne corks just yet.

President-elect Donald Trump has chosen health economist Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a critic of pandemic lockdowns and vaccine mandates, to lead the National Institutes of Health, the nation's leading medical research agency.

President-elect Donald Trump announced a slew of nominations Tuesday, including international trade attorney Jamieson Greer to be his U.S. trade representative, Kevin Hassett as director of the White House National Economic Council and Vince Haley as director of the Domestic Policy Council.

Americans were too dumb to pick Kamala Harris. That was the explanation Alec Baldwin had for the election result earlier this month.

President-elect Trump plans to nominate businessman John Phelan as the next head of the Navy.  “John will be a tremendous force for our Naval Servicemembers, and a steadfast leader in advancing my America First vision,” Trump said in a Tuesday night post on TruthSocial. “He will put the business of the U.S. Navy above all...

President-elect Trump selected Jamieson Greer to serve as his U.S. trade representative on Tuesday. Greer, an aide in the trade office during Trump’s first term, will help steer the president-elect’s trade agenda.  Greer is a partner at King & Spalding, and the scope of his work includes “trade remedies, trade policy and negotiations, trade agreement...

President-elect Trump's choice for deputy secretary of Health and Human Services is Jim O'Neill, an investor and historically close associate of billionaire Peter Thiel, the president-elect said Tuesday. “I am very pleased to nominate Jim O’Neill to serve as the Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services to work alongside Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,” Trump...

President-elect Trump completed his health team by picking Stanford University professor Dr. Jay Bhattacharya as his next director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).  Trump, in the Tuesday announcement on TruthSocial, said that Bhattacharya will work alongside environmental lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who he tapped earlier this month to head the Department of...

President-elect Trump has chosen former White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett to lead the National Economic Council in his next administration, he said Tuesday. “I am very pleased to announce that Dr. Kevin A. Hassett, of Massachusetts will serve as the Director of the White House National Economic Council,” Trump said in a statement. “As...