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Since winning the presidential election earlier this month, Donald Trump has wasted no time working to fill his incoming administration with billionaires and other ultra-rich individuals who are poised to benefit from the GOP agenda of tax cuts for the wealthy and large-scale deregulation.

In separate analyses published this week, Americans for Tax Fairness (ATF) and Accountable.US offered overviews of the president-elect's key nominations and their potential conflicts of interest as Trump prepares to retake power in January.

A Nebraska grade-schooler in Nebraska has been experiencing repeated racist attacks from another student — but his parents are unable to get the bully dealt with, according to a report.

Imari Adoukonou, a third-grader at Falling Waters Elementary School in Gretna, said the other boy asked him to spell the N-word and told him "that's what you are." He said his tormentor has allegedly kneed him twice in the groin and called him a racial slur, reported WOWT-TV.

A city council meeting in Tulsa, Oklahoma this week went off the rails after an outgoing city councilor invited a pagan priestess to deliver a prayer at a meeting.

Public Radio Tulsa reports that outgoing councilor Crista Patrick stirred controversy when she brought pagan priestess Amy McAdams to deliver an opening invocation at the meeting that included nods to "the Gorgonea, champions of equality and sacred rage" and "Medusa, monstrous hero of the oppressed and abused."

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) called for Joy Reid to be taken off the air because she claimed the MSNBC host's opposition to President-elect Donald Trump meant she supported murder.

During a Monday interview on Real America's Voice, Greene slammed Reid for warning that Trump would replace military officials with people who believe American protesters can be shot. Reid cited Trump's decision to nominate Project 2025 architect Russ Vought, who has called to deploy the military inside the country.

Kamala Harris' campaign reportedly paid half a million dollars to Al Sharpton's nonprofit shortly before she took part in a friendly interview with the civil rights activist and MSNBC host — but a network spokesman said they were unaware of the payment.

The Harris campaign made a $250,000 contribution to Sharpton's National Action Network on Sept. 5 and another on Oct. 1, a few weeks before Sharpton interviewed the Democratic nominee, according to reports. The network spokesman said he did not inform viewers or MSNBC of the payments, reported the Washington Free Beacon.

On Election Night, Donald Trump became the first presidential candidate in United States history to win an election despite having faced four criminal indictments — one of which resulted in him being convicted on 34 felony counts.

Two of the criminal indictments against Trump were federal ones brought by special counsel Jack Smith for the U.S. Department of Justice: the election interference case and the classified documents case.

Nearly a quarter of Republican voters said that they want President Donald Trump to run for a third term in 2028, despite his being ineligible, according to a new poll.

According to the most recent Emerson College poll, that while 30% would vote for Vice President-elect JD Vance in a hypothetical 2028 Republican primary, 23% want Trump to run for a third term. Another 28% were undecided. The poll surveyed 1,000 registered voters between November 20-22, and has a margin of error of 3%.

The U.S. is about to pay dearly for Donald Trump's incoming tariff regime, former Republican strategist turned Never Trumper Ana Navarro told CNN's John Berman on Tuesday morning.

Donald Trump announced Monday he is going to make good on the tariff threats he made on the campaign trail, starting with 25 percent tariffs on goods across the board from Mexico and Canada and even higher ones on China. And that's immediately going to hit Americans in the pocketbook, warned Navarro.

Donald Trump appears to be assembling a team to help him carry out his promised vengeance against perceived enemies — and an NBC News correspondent sketched out how that might look in practice.

The president-elect is expected to appoint hardcore loyalist Kash Patel to a key role in the Department of Justice or FBI, and reporter Vaughn Hillyard told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" how that MAGA extremist might target and torment Trump's enemies.

In the final weeks of President Joe Biden's administration, his Department of Health and Human Services is proposing a new rule for Medicare and Medicaid recipients that will likely touch off a tense confrontation with HHS secretary-designate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

The Washington Post reported Tuesday that HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra is now proposing that weight loss drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy be covered by Medicare and Medicaid. He said the rule is necessary to fight the ongoing obesity epidemic in the United States by making it easier for Americans to have access to proven medical solutions.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk has promised to slash government waste and inefficiency and balance the budget through his Trump-approved independent task force known as the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE — named after an internet meme.

But many of their examples of government waste are misleading, wrote Glenn Kessler for The Washington Post Fact-Checker — and worse, the simple math of their promises doesn't add up.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) predicted that President-elect Donald Trump would not have a very long honeymoon while in office.

Appearing on CNN, Blumenthal argued that Trump's threats to slap America's largest trading partners with massive tariffs should be taken very seriously and predicted it would cause immediate tension with his campaign promise to end inflation.

Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman on Tuesday examined President-elect Donald Trump's new threats to slap tariffs on all Canadian and Mexican products — and concluded that he's likely not bluffing.

Writing on his Bluesky account, Krugman downplayed claims that the tariffs are a four-dimensional chess play by Trump to extract new concessions from America's two largest trading partners, which he said "makes little sense on its own terms."