Decision 2024

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

politics 34 mins ago

RFK. Jr's controversial health stances, from vaccines to raw milk

Kennedy is Trump’s pick for health secretary, but he has a history of spreading misinformation about a range of issues.

Trump Administration 50 mins ago

Pete Hegseth's remarks about women in combat are met with disgust and dissent
Donald Trump 3 hours ago

Matt Gaetz, Trump's pick to oversee Jan. 6 cases, backed rioters and spread conspiracy theories

Decision 2024 4 hours ago

Pete Hegseth, Trump's pick for defense secretary, faced sex assault allegation

Hegseth, a former Fox News host, was not charged with a crime in connection with the reported 2017 incident.
politics 4 hours ago

Speaker Mike Johnson says he will ‘strongly request' that Ethics Committee withhold its Matt Gaetz report

Johnson said that it would be a “terrible breach of protocol” if the committee released the report on Gaetz, who resigned from the House this week.
Decision 2024 5 hours ago

Will Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy's new ‘department' actually be able to do anything?

The “Department of Government Efficiency” won’t be a real government agency. In fact, it won’t even be part of the federal government.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 9 hours ago

Some New Yorkers split their ticket for AOC and Trump. Political strategists weigh in

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took to social media to address split-ticket New York voters who supported her candidacy and President-elect Donald Trump, as Democrats grapple with the fallout of Vice P...

Decision 2024 14 hours ago

Republicans made substantial gains in state legislative battlegrounds

Republicans ended up flipping, maintaining control of, or expanding their majority in nearly all of the state legislative chambers across the country where partisan control was up for grabs on Election Day.
Donald Trump 19 hours ago

Trump meets with Argentina's president and says he's a ‘MAGA person'

Donald Trump has met at his Mar-a-Lago club with Argentine President Javier Milei, the first foreign leader to meet with the president-elect since his victory in last week’s election.
Trump Administration 7 hours ago

Trump announces North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum as his pick for interior secretary

Burgum ran for president in the 2024 election cycle.
Decision 2024 23 hours ago

Trump to nominate his criminal defense lawyer for deputy attorney general

The president-elect said he’d chosen Todd Blanche, who represented him in his criminal trial this year, for the No. 2 job at the Justice Department.
Capitol Riot 23 hours ago

Former Detroit Lions player charged in Jan. 6 riot

Leander Antwione Williams, a linebacker who played with the Lions in the 2016 season, is charged with two felonies in connection with the attack on the Capitol in 2021.
Donald Trump Nov 14

What are recess appointments, and how could Trump use them to fill his Cabinet?

President-elect Donald Trump is considering recess appointments to skip over Senate confirmations for some of the most powerful positions in the U.S. government.
Donald Trump 7 hours ago

Trump chooses former Rep. Doug Collins to run Veterans Affairs

Doug Collins, a former congressman from Georgia, is President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to run the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Trump Administration Nov 14

What to know about Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump's pick for health secretary

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has promoted claims about vaccines that contradict the overwhelming consensus of scientists.
Elon Musk Nov 14

Elon Musk's new ‘department' seeks ‘super high-IQ' staff for unpaid jobs

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s new commission to slash government spending began soliciting applications for staff jobs Thursday, saying it wants to hire “revolutionaries” who score highly on IQ tests.
Trump Administration 22 hours ago

Trump picks RFK Jr., anti-vaccine activist, for Health and Human Services secretary

President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday has nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an anti-vaccine activist who dropped out of the 2024 presidential race and endorsed Trump, to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.
Health Nov 14

Vaccine maker stocks fall as Trump chooses RFK Jr. to lead HHS

Shares of Moderna, Novavax, Pfizer, BioNTech and GSK closed lower on Thursday.
Congress Nov 14

Senators want details of Matt Gaetz ethics probe before his confirmation vote for attorney general

Republican senators are preparing for a robust vetting of Matt Gaetz, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Justice Department, with a keen interest in details from a House Ethics Committee investigation into the former congressman from Florida.
Donald Trump Nov 14

What to know about Matt Gaetz, Trump's pick to serve as attorney general

In picking Rep. Matt Gaetz as his nominee for attorney general, President-elect Donald Trump is looking to install a fierce loyalist who has been seen as divisive even within his own party.