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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.

Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman is seeing signs that President-elect Donald Trump may have already bitten off more than he can chew when it comes to his threats to launch trade wars with Mexico and Canada.

Writing on BlueSky, Krugman makes the case that Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum appears to be ready to call Trump's bluff should he slap her country's products with 25 percent tariffs.

President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to push ahead with plans to relocate multiple federal agencies away from Washington D.C., but a new analysis from CNN's Curt Devine argues that such a move might do Trump more harm than good.

In his piece, Devine examines the ramifications of Trump's decision to move the headquarters for the Bureau of Land Management all the way out to Colorado during his first term.

Democrat Kamala Harris came in for a deluge of mockery by Republicans and right-wing US media Wednesday after the release of a short video clip from her first public comments since losing to Donald Trump.

The Democratic Party posted a 28-second clip from longer remarks made by Harris in a video conference call Tuesday to thank supporters from her failed November 5 bid.

Elon Musk's embrace of Donald Trump and expression of right-wing conspiracy theories have "embarrassed" many of his customers.

Sales of anti-Musk stickers have exploded since the tech billionaire helped send the former president back to the White House, and Tesla owners are slapping those on their vehicles in an attempt to distance themselves from the X owner and Trump adviser, reported The Guardian.

Donald Trump's incoming government efficiency chief Elon Musk will meet Republican lawmakers next week to begin discussions about the tech billionaire's new commission tasked with cutting billions of dollars in federal spending.

Mike Johnson, the Republican speaker of the House of Representatives, said in a post on X he was looking forward to hosting Musk next Thursday, along with his co-leader of Trump's newly announced "Department of Government Efficiency," Vivek Ramaswamy.

CNN's Nick Paton Walsh has written a lengthy analysis of President-elect Donald Trump's decision to appoint Ret. Gen. Keith Kellogg to be his special envoy to Russia and Ukraine.

Walsh's conclusion after reviewing Kellogg's plans for ending the conflict between Russia and Ukraine is that "Putin may revel in" what's about to come from the second Trump administration.

Far-right Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has been a highly divisive figure in Lone Star State politics, often drawing vehement criticism not only from Democrats, but also from fellow Republicans. Nonetheless, Paxton survived an impeachment trial in the Texas State Senate, where he was acquitted on 16 articles. And the Donald Trump ally hasn't become any less combative.

Paxton, a Baptist who embraces a severe brand of Christian fundamentalism, is known for picking fights with churches he considers impure. And his latest religious target, according to Chron.com reporter Eric Killelea, is a church in Austin that helps the homeless.