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A key GOP lawmaker made clear in an interview published Thursday that Republicans plan to push for a pair of their voting-related bills when they take control of both chambers of Congress and the White House next month.

Congressman Bryan Steil (R-Wis.), who campaigned for U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and his running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), chairs the Committee on House Administration. He shared the GOP's plans for the American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act and the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act in comments to The Associated Press.

Outgoing Representative Annie Kuster (D-N.H.) said that she made the decision not to run for her seat again after meeting with President Joe Biden early in the campaign and seeing his decline.

Kuster, 68, said this March she would not run for re-election to the House seat she's held for nearly 12 years. She told the Boston Globe on Thursday that she'd made the decision after flying with Biden on Air Force One. She says that though she felt he was capable of serving the rest of his term as president, she could see the signs of aging.

A discussion revolving around Vivek Ramaswamy’s recent comments that America’s culture problem has resulted in tech companies hiring more people from India and China created an on-air dust-up between a Washington Post columnist and a Republican who opposes the tech entrepreneur’s view.

The moment came Thursday on CNN’s “The Source” when Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell slammed conservative commentator Shermichael Singleton for saying the country – and particularly the incoming Trump administration – should focus on “domestic skill development.”

The president of Panama on Thursday hit back at President Donald Trump, calling his claims that China has interfered with the Panama Canal "nonsense."

The president-elect lodged several controversial accusations about China's alleged involvement in the Panama Canal. He said Chinese soldiers were operating the canal, wrote in a Christmas message on Truth Social that he was extending greetings to the "wonderful soldiers of China, who are lovingly, but illegally, operating the Panama Canal."

Donald Trump once vowed to "drain the swamp" tapping into populist frustrations with Washington, D.C, but a Wall Street Journal columnist warned that if the president-elect's plans for broad tariffs succeed, he'll do exactly the opposite: make the "bigger and slimier than ever."

Trump has proposed significant tariff increases on imports from several countries, including a 25% tariff on all goods imported from Mexico and Canada, and an additional 10% tariff on all goods imported from China. He's also proposed universal 10 to 20 percent tariffs on all imported goods.

Americans are starting to wise up to the harsh reality that President-elect Donald Trump has no plan – and never did – to cut prices and bury inflation woes, according to a Washington Post columnist.

And that could result in an expensive four years for consumers – many of whom fearing high prices are already stocking up on goods, Catherine Rampell wrote in an opinion piece Thursday for the Post.

The safety of the American people could be in jeopardy if Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard emerge in key national security positions in Donald Trump’s cabinet, according to a former CIA and FBI head who openly questioned whether the two were qualified to serve in the critical roles.

The stark assessment from William Webster, the only person to lead both the FBI and CIA, came Thursday in a letter to senators, Politico reported. In it, he urged lawmakers to reject both Patel and Gabbard – who Trump tapped to become the country’s next FBI and national intelligence directors, respectively.

A Republican state lawmaker in Utah abruptly resigned Thursday less than two months after winning re-election.

Rep. Kera Birkeland was appointed to the Utah House of Representatives in April 2020 and was elected to a full term later that year. On Nov. 5, she won another term with 60 percent of the vote over Democratic challenger Kris Campbell.

In the aftermath of the presidential election, Donald Trump met with President Joe Biden in the Oval Office, and both called for a smooth transition to the next administration.

It was a far cry from four years earlier when Trump lobbed threats toward media and election officials before leading a violent insurrection in an unprecedented attack on the Capitol.

Trump Media — the social media company founded by Donald Trump in 2021 — is taking legal action against the purchaser representative in the president-elect's company's merger with Digital World Acquisition Corporation earlier this year.

The suit, filed by DLA Piper, alleges that RejuveTotal LLC "abused its role to extort $14 million from Trump Media & Technology Group," according to Law.com's report.

Donald Trump’s sweeping electoral victory allowed him to consolidate power within his own party, but the Democratic resistance to the incoming president is starting to take shape and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) revealed a key strategy for how to handle the new administration.

With Trump’s inauguration just weeks away, Democratic leaders are turning to the judiciary as a defense against Republican Party policies, according to a new report in Politico.

A technology expert on Thursday took aim at one of President-elect Donald Trump’s many campaign promises for when he sweeps back into office next month: his vow that all remaining Bitcoin be “made in the U.S.A.”

But ensuring that the United States is the world leader in the multibillion-dollar Bitcoin industry that is decentralized is a tall order for Trump to achieve – if not “near impossible,” Bloomberg reported.

Businesses across the globe are scrambling — even trying to frontload orders to the United States — as they stare down the second inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump and the possibility he'll follow through on enacting steep tariffs.

Trump recently threatened to impose tariffs on U.S. allies and demanded that the European Union close its trade gap with the United States. The president-elect told the EU to reduce the gap by buying oil and gas or face tariffs, which he's also threatened to levy on Canada, China and Mexico.