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In a move likely fraught with major implications for worker rights during the impending second administration of Republican President-elect Donald Trump, Democratic-turned-Independent U.S. Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema on Wednesday blocked Democrat Lauren McFerran's bid for a second term on the National Labor Relations Board.

With every Republican senator except Sen. Roger Marshall of Kansas voting against President Joe Biden's nomination of McFerran for a new five-year term, the fate of the woman who has led the agency since 2021 was up to Manchin and Sinema—who, as More Perfect Union founder and executive director Faiz Shakir put it on social media, "consistently spoiled the story of 'what could have been'" by years of fighting to thwart their own former party's agenda.

A CNN conservative faced pushback for arguing that that FBI director Christopher Wray might as well have resigned since Donald Trump intended to fire him once he took office.

The Trump-appointed Wray announced Wednesday that he would step down at the end of President Joe Biden's administration, and panelists on "CNN This Morning" debated whether he made the right decision in the face of his likely termination, since Trump has already nominated MAGA loyalist Kash Patel to replace him.

President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday floated a legally dubious proposal to let corporations and individuals who invest $1 billion or more in the U.S. bypass regulations, a scheme that environmental groups and government watchdogs said underscores the corrupt intentions of the incoming administration.

"Corporate polluters cannot bribe their way to endangering our communities and our clean air and water," Mahyar Sorour of Sierra Club said in a statement. "Donald Trump's plan to sell out to the highest bidder confirms what we've long known about him: He's happy to sacrifice the wellbeing of American communities for the benefit of his Big Oil campaign donors."

Shell casings found at the scene of the brazen murder of a US insurance executive match the gun found on the man charged with the crime, the New York police commissioner said Wednesday according to US media.

Suspect Luigi Mangione's fingerprints also matched those found near the crime scene, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch added, quoted by ABC, confirming for the first time direct links between the suspect and the killing unearthed by detectives.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has assembled an administration of staggering wealth and unprecedented controversy as he bids to seal his populist legacy surrounded by aides prized above all for their unstinting loyalty.

The Republican tycoon's incoming cabinet officials are worth an estimated $11 billion, and with Trump himself and outside advisors like world's richest man Elon Musk included, that figure rises to a mind-boggling $340 billion.

Last week's slaying of UnitedHealthcare executive Brian Thompson has brought renewed attention to the widespread dissatisfaction with the American health care system, even as prominent leaders have condemned the killing.

Reports that the casings of the bullets fired by suspected shooter Luigi Mangione had the words "depose, deny, delay" inscribed on them prompted horror stories on social media about health insurers who use those very tactics to get out of paying for medical tests or cancer treatment.

Health care workers expressed frustration this week, feeling branded as part of an "evil empire" following the killing of a UnitedHealthcare executive, who was gunned down outside a New York City hotel, igniting a dayslong nationwide manhunt for the assassin.

Luigi Mangione, a 26-year-old Ivy League graduate, gunned down Brian Thompson with a 3-D printed handgun and fled on a bicycle, authorities have said. He was nabbed days later at a McDonald's in Pennsylvania following a tip.

President-elect Donald Trump’s announcement that election denier Kari Lake would be tapped to serve as director of Voice of America in his new administration prompted swift reaction inside and out of MAGA world.

Trump praised Lake as a “beloved news anchor” after making the selection public Wednesday night, ending speculation that Lake, a former TV news anchor and two-time failed Republican candidate, would be selected as the incoming president’s ambassador to Mexico.

President-elect Donald Trump has tapped election denier and two-time failed Republican candidate Kari Lake to lead Voice of America in his new administration.

Trump made the selection Wednesday night, ending speculation that Lake, a former TV news anchor turned MAGA favorite, would be selected as the incoming president’s ambassador to Mexico. She will instead serve as director of the government-funded media agency Voice of America, which produces overseas broadcasts that have traditionally remained nonpartisan.

The aftermath of the shocking killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO – and the "cheering reaction" it triggered – offers a stark warning to a society already desensitized to bloodshed, according to an editorial published Wednesday.

And the brazenness of the gleeful response from frustrated insurance customers nationwide is worrying to people who study violence closely, wrote Adrienne LeFrance, who added in her Atlantic editorial that last week’s assassination of Brian Thompson could lead down a path of "decivilization."

The murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson portends something dark in the reaction of the public, New York University professor Scott Galloway told CNN's Anderson Cooper on Wednesday: a deep-seated rage over inequality in America and the risk that the nation could be heading for instability over it.

This comes as people not only celebrate the murder online but target people who are perceived as helping the police bring the suspected killer to justice.

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) made what seemed to be another criticism of President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday, cautioning that the country is in a "dangerous" global situation similar to the years leading up to World War II, and pointing out that Trump's campaign slogan echoes that historical period.

“We’re in a very, very dangerous world right now, reminiscent of before World War II,” he told The Financial Times in an article published Wednesday. “Even the slogan is the same. 'America First.' That was what they said in the '30s."

President-elect Donald Trump has filed a motion to try to toss out the lawsuit against him by the exonerated "Central Park Five" — the group of five Black and Latino men who were initially convicted of a brutal rape in New York City in the late 1980s but later cleared as innocent.

The defamation suit was filed in October, after Trump — who initially responded to the case by taking out a massive pro-death penalty ad in the papers — doubled down on claiming it was reasonable to infer their guilt during the presidential debate with Vice President Kamala Harris.