Politics

Karoline Leavitt speaks to the news media across the street from Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York, before the then-candidate was found guilty on 34 felony counts in May. (Ted Shaffrey / Associated Press) President-elect Donald Trump on Friday named Karoline Leavitt, his campaign press secretary, to serve as his White House press secretary. … Read more

State Sen. Marie Alvarado Gil (R-Jackson) alleges her former chief of staff told her he was responsible for the death and disappearance of Washington intern Chandra Levy. (Rich Pedroncelli / Associated Press) In the latest development in a salacious Sacramento legal saga, a California state senator this week filed a countercomplaint against her former chief … Read more

North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, Donald Trump’s choice to head the Interior Department, will also lead a newly created National Energy Council that will seek to establish U.S. “energy dominance” around the world, the president-elect said Friday. (J. Scott Applewhite / Associated Press) President-elect Donald Trump announced Friday that North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, his … Read more

California removes slur targeting Indigenous women from location names Officials have approved the removal of the derogatory term “squaw” from more than 30 geographic features and place names on California lands, according to an announcement Friday by the state Natural Resources Agency. The action stems from a bill that Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law … Read more

President-elect Donald Trump is considering using recess appointments to skip over Senate confirmations for some of the most powerful positions in the U.S. government. (Mariam Zuhaib / Associated Press) As President-elect Donald Trump moves to set up a more forceful presidency than in his first term, he is choosing loyalists for his Cabinet and considering … Read more

Attorney Todd Blanche listens as his client Donald Trump speaks as he arrives at Manhattan criminal court during his criminal hush money trial earlier this year. Trump was convicted on 34 felony counts. (Michael M. Santiago / Associated Press) President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Todd Blanche, an attorney who led the legal team that defended … Read more

Then-President Trump is interviewed by Fox & Friends co-host Pete Hegseth at a Wounded Warrior Project Soldier Ride event in the East Room of the White House on April 6, 2017. (Andrew Harnik / Associated Press) President-Elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Defense, Fox News personality Pete Hegseth, was investigated for sexual … Read more

Like a great pink-capped wave, rolling from one edge of the country to the other, more than a million protesters marched through the streets of America on Saturday in an unprecedented show of discontent scarcely a day into the new Trump administration. From resort towns like Bend, Ore., to the skyscraper-lined streets of New York … Read more

Then-President Trump walks to a church near the White House during protests in 2020. Marine Gen. Mark Milley, then-chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is in uniform behind him. Milley later regretted that his presence “created a perception of the military involved in domestic politics.” (Associated Press) Critics of President-elect Donald Trump have long … Read more

Kevin McCarthy predicts that Matt Gaetz “won’t get confirmed” as attorney general and that “everybody knows that.” (Associated Press) Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy predicted that President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of Matt Gaetz to be attorney general would be rejected by the Republican Senate next year. “Gaetz won’t get confirmed, everybody knows that,” McCarthy said … Read more