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Former Democrat and lawmaker Tulsi Gabbard (HI) is visiting Capitol Hill this week in an effort to persuade senators that she can be trusted to handle the United States' most closely guarded secrets as Donald Trump's pick for director of national intelligence.

NBC News noted Wednesday that, "Gabbard’s bid has been largely overshadowed by other embattled picks, including Trump’s choice to lead the Defense Department, Pete Hegseth."

Retired Major General Randy Manner pushed back on Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) after he complained about President-elect Donald Trump and his MAGA supporters being called fascists.

During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Trump's mass deportation plans on Tuesday, Kennedy accused Manner of wanting "open borders."

A wind-fanned wildfire quickly spread early on Tuesday in Malibu, threatening homes and businesses in the coastal California community where many Hollywood elites reside.

The Franklin Fire broke out late Monday evening as most of Southern California was under a National Weather Service warning over the ongoing low humidity and high winds that are conducive to increased fire danger.

Republicans are hoping to hide the economic impact of Donald Trump's policies as they retake the levers of government next month, a business columnist warned Tuesday.

Many of the 2017 Trump tax cuts are set to expire next year, and the Congressional Budget Office estimates that full extension of those would add more than $4 trillion to the federal debt over the next decade. That might actually be a conservative estimate, wrote Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell.

Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, lashed out at President-elect Donald Trump's former Department of Justice for obtaining records of lawmakers, staffers and journalists during an investigation of leaks.

In a report released Tuesday, the Justice Department's inspector general said the DOJ targeted two lawmakers and 43 staffers in an effort to unearth leaks to journalists. Records of Trump's pick to be the next FBI director, Kash Patel, were obtained as a part of the investigation. Patel was serving as a House staffer at the time.

Conservative National Review analyst Ramesh Ponnuru urged fellow right-wing activists to push back hard on a key, controversial nominee for President-elect Donald Trump's cabinet in an article for The Washington Post published on Tuesday.

Specifically, Ponnuru demanded that the GOP "start a fight" over Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services — not because he is an avowed conspiracy theorist against vaccination, water fluoridation and 5G cell phone service who rejects the expertise of broad swathes of the scientific and medical communities, but because he's a former lifelong Democrat who is out of step with the GOP's views against abortion rights.

Overnight, President-elect Donald Trump continued his verbal assaults on Canada, America's largest trading partner and a top defense partner, by calling Prime Minister Justin Trudeau the "Governor" of the "Great State of Canada." Some Canadians are striking back.

After the November election, Trump announced that one of his first actions would be to impose massive tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China. The President of Mexico fought Trump in the press, explaining that his border demands were nonsensical since Mexico was already doing what he was calling for.

Donald Trump's newly built department that aims to slash federal funding is set for implosion as the president-elect throws together a pair of 'ticking time bombs," a reporter predicted Tuesday.

With Elon Musk and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) working side-by-side, the Department of Government Efficiency will devolve into "crazy town," said The New Republic's Greg Sargent in his Wednesday New Republic "Daily Blast" rundown.

CNN's Kate Bolduan clashed with a conservative commentator over the role of experts in government.

More than 75 past Nobel Prize winners sent an open letter Monday to the U.S. Senate opposing Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, saying his lack of credentials and unconventional views on medical science "would put the public's health in jeopardy."

Incoming White House adviser Alina Habba falsely claimed that President-elect Donald Trump did not separate migrant families during his first term.

On Tuesday, Fox News host Bill Hemmer asked Habba about future border czar Tom Homan's admission that family separations "may happen" under the new administration.

President-elect Donald Trump managed a narrow electoral victory in a sharply divided country — and it's unclear exactly what voters brought him in to do. Many voters have cited inflation as their driving factor. But not all of them have.

In conversation with a New York Times focus group released on Tuesday, many voters who backed Trump specifically said he has a mandate to remove immigrants from the country.

Fox News' Steve Doocy told viewers a startling claim this week, The Daily Beast reported — mystery giant drones are snooping on his home.

“They’re low, they’re about 100 yards, flying over my backyard,” Doocy told the panel on "Fox & Friends" Tuesday morning. He added in a later segment, “They are buzzing overhead all the time. The scary part is when they stop. They just kind of hover for a little while.”

MSNBC's "Morning Joe," co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Jonathan Lemire agreed Tuesday that Donald Trump often makes decisions that are detrimental to himself personally and to his agenda because he fears criticism from his base.

With Scarborough pointing out that the president-elect might be able to get together with Democratic leaders and reach a compromise on some policies that would forestall delaying tactics and battles, he suggested the blustery Trump is fond of floating trial balloons before retreating back due to fears of MAGA outrage.