2024 Elections

Matt Gaetz's announcement Thursday that he would withdraw his name from the Cabinet contest spurred near-immediate praise from President-elect Donald Trump.

Trump did not mention the unfolding scandal around a House Ethics committee probe into charges Gaetz had sex with a minor at a drug-fueled party.

Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell avoided a showdown with Donald Trump during his first term, but he may not escape the once and future president's wrath next time.

Powell clearly hopes to avoid getting caught up in political drama with the economy headed toward a "soft landing," but a confrontation with Trump looks inevitable because many of his top allies, including Elon Musk and Project 2025 architect Russ Vought, have urged him to seize control of the Fed or undercut its credibility, wrote Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell.

CNN viewers learned how to say "useful idiot" in Russian Thursday as a Republican tried to defend a controversial Cabinet pick by the president-elect — and a Democratic strategist slapped back.

Trump's decision to pick former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard to lead the nation's intelligence agencies had conservative adviser Brad Todd scrambling to characterize concerns raised by former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley as overblown.

Former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) abruptly withdrew his bid to be President-elect Donald Trump's next attorney general.

In a statement posted on X on Thursday, Gaetz claimed he was withdrawing from the process to prevent becoming a "distraction."

Donald Trump made notable gains with voters of color despite his openly racist and xenophobic campaign messaging.

A record 46 percent of Latinos voted for the former president, up 14 points from 2020, and Asian American support jumped five points to 39 percent, while Black support gained only one point, at 13 percent, since his election loss to Joe Biden, reported The Guardian.

Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of Health and Human Services once compared the president-elect to Adolf Hitler and praised criticism of his followers as "belligerent idiots," "outright Nazis," and "bootlickers," according to a new report.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made these comments on his radio show "Ring of Fire" in 2016, according to audio revealed by CNN Thursday morning.

President-elect Donald Trump is counting on panic to achieve what his administration cannot do alone — keep the primary promise of his presidential campaign, according to a legal expert.

Dara Lind, a senior fellow at the American Immigration Council, detailed in a New York Times editorial Thursday the many ways Trump is counting on fear to overcome the hurdles of mounting a mass deportation program.

Donald Trump sought to distance himself from the controversial Project 2025 blueprint for remaking government during his re-election campaign, but he has already named at least four individuals associated with the plan to serve in his administration.

The president-elect has tapped Tom Homan as "border czar," John Ratliffe as CIA director, Brendan Carr as head of the Federal Communications Commission and Pete Hoekstra as ambassador to Canada, and all four are credited by name in the 920-page manifesto, and so is Russ Vought, whom he's likely to appoint to lead the White House budget office, reported the Washington Post.

Call it the Catch-2025.

President-elect Donald Trump's Republican loyalists were called out Wednesday by a frustrated Democrat over a paradox concealed within their promised purge of federal government professionals.

Rep. Michael Guest (R-MS), chair of the House Ethics Committee, said there was no agreement on releasing a report about sexual misconduct allegations against former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), President-elect Donald Trump's pick for attorney general.

After a two-hour Ethics Committee meeting on Wednesday, Guest told reporters there "was not an agreement to release the report." The Republican chair would not say if the committee voted on the matter.