Latest Headlines

Donald Trump's inauguration is approaching, and outgoing President Joe Biden is at work trying to protect some of his flagship policies that have been passed in the last four years.

Among them, the Wall Street Journal pointed to the CHIPS and Science Act, which helped increase domestic manufacturing for memory chips built in the United States. One economic expert even warned that if Trump were to kill the Biden program it could cost the U.S. up to $1 trillion.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could do a massive amount of harm as the head of the Department of Health and Human Services, warned Dan Diamond of The Washington Post in a lengthy thread posted to Bluesky on Friday.

This comes as Trump is making other conspiracy theorist picks to head up major government departments, including another antivaxxer to head up the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Businesses are employing a new tactic to boost sales, reported the Wall Street Journal on Friday: warn consumers that Donald Trump's tariffs could make them lose out on deals unless they act fast.

This comes after Trump publicly vowed to slap drastic new tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China ranging from 25 percent to 60 percent — a policy economists warn could lead to massive price increases on energy and consumer goods.

Donald Trump's appointee to head the Department of Defense came under criticism from retired Naval War College professor Tom Nichols, as his limited experience in the military and inexperience in leading anything but a weekend Fox News show is causing backlash.

Nichols spoke on Friday in a podcast with The Atlantic about Pete Hegseth's appointment as nothing more than "pure provocation."

Brazil's ex-president Jair Bolsonaro believes incoming U.S. leader Donald Trump's return will boost his own comeback ambitions, despite being banned from seeking office until 2030 and investigated for allegedly plotting a coup.

The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday that Bolsonaro, 69, is banking on Trump pressuring Brazilian judges to delay enforcing the ban, which he earned for baselessly trashing Brazil's voting system ahead of his 2022 defeat.

A former public health official from Donald Trump's first term as president sounded the alarm over one of his nominees for his second term.

Dr. Scott Gottlieb, who served as commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, told CNBC's "Squawk Box" that Department of Health and Human Services nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would put American lives at risk if he was confirmed as secretary.

Donald Trump caused alarm in the medical community by picking anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head up the Department of Health and Human Services. But less noted was a similarly-minded pick to head up the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, profiled by The New York Times on Friday.

Last week, Trump announced the CDC nominee will be Dave Weldon, a doctor and former Florida congressman known for his anti-abortion views and for seeking to intervene in the Terri Schiavo brain death case. In addition to all these things, The Times noted, Weldon is an outspoken anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist himself.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is praising Donald Trump as a "real man," and “clever and experienced,” while issuing what has been described as a "bizarre" warning that the American President-elect is "not safe."

“He behaved, in my opinion, in a very correct way, courageously, like a real man,” Putin said Thursday, referring to the assassination attempt in July, Reuters reports. “I take this opportunity to congratulate him on his election.”

A Democratic strategist pointed out an irony in the timing of bomb threats targeting Donald Trump's nominees.

The president-elect's Cabinet picks and nominees have been hit with bomb threats and "swatting attacks, according to his transition team, and former Bill Clinton adviser Richard Goodstein pointed out on MSNBC that Trump wants to make drastic cuts to the agency investigating those threats.

Conspiracy theorist and former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was rewarded by Donald Trump for campaigning alongside him with a nomination to head up the Department of Health and Human Services. But cracks are already starting to form in their relationship, Politico reported on Friday.

In particular, reported Meredith Lee Hill and Adam Cancryn, Kennedy's demands for how Trump staff the U.S. Department of Agriculture have gone ignored and he has been "bitterly warring" with Trump allies over the appointments.

The United States Supreme Court at times would step in during President-elect Donald Trump's first term to block his more extreme policies. This time around, however, legal analysts are speculating whether Trump in his second term will actually abide by their orders.

The Washington Post spoke with legal analysts questioned whether the High Court would restrain Trump and what Trump would do when they try to rein him in.

Donald Trump and his allies are claiming that voters gave him a broad mandate for a second term as president, but surveys shows they don't actually like his campaign promises.

Two massive polls, the network exit poll and the VoteCast survey, show that Trump won because voters wanted a change from the status quo and had positive memories of his first presidency, but they actually oppose what Republicans have proposed doing in his second term, reported The Bulwark.