President-elect Donald Trump said he'll select North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum to run the Department of the Interior and joked his presidential term should start early during a celebration gala late Thursday at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.

For months, we heard all about the joy Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) were bringing to the campaign trail. Contrasting their opponents, their ticket represented a less vitriolic approach to politics. Harris-Walz supporters attempted to emulate that. In defeat, the niceness quickly evaporated, revealing bitter leftists who want the other side to […]

President-elect Trump's pick for defense secretary, Fox News personality Pete Hegseth, was involved in a 2017 sexual assault incident in California, according to Monterey City police. The city confirmed an investigation into an "alleged sexual assault" at a home in the city in October 2017 between the late night hours and early morning. A summary...

Vladimir Putin aims to keep Moldova and Georgia under his thumb — and the electoral results from both countries suggest his strategy is working.

CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin spoke out on President-elect Trump’s nomination of now-former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) for attorney general, saying the decision resulted in a “shift in tone” for Wall Street CEOs. “Up until that moment, so many of them had frankly a big grin on their face about where the markets were going,” he said. “When [the...

Kathleen Sebelius, a former Democratic governor who served as Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary during the Obama administration, said that having anti-vaccine activist and environmental lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. leading HHS is "very frightening" for Americans. "To have someone coming into a scientific agency that is a vaccine skeptic and may well undo decades of...

A tech lobbying group called on President-elect Trump and his team to ensure the U.S. maintains leadership in the development and deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) as it crafts the incoming regulations and policy on the advancing technology. The Software Alliance — also known as BSA — argued in a letter to Trump and Vice...

Financial markets could wind up as the final arbiter about whether he has gone too far. 

Betty White may soon be headed to your mailbox — the late legendary actor is poised to be honored with her own U.S. Postal Service (USPS) stamp. An image of the "Golden Girls" star is among several new stamps that will be making their debut next year, the USPS announced Friday. In a statement revealing...

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said that Key Square Group founder Scott Bessent would be an “outstanding” choice as President-elect Trump’s Treasury secretary. “I think he’d be outstanding. He’s from South Carolina, I know him well, he’s highly qualified,” Graham told news outlet Semafor on Thursday. “I think he’s been well-vetted,” he added. Bessent, a hedge...