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The Bulwark's editor-in-chief continued to express his disgust Tuesday with Donald Trump's Cabinet appointees who have allegations revolving around sex scandals in their past.

Fox News weekend host Pete Hegseth reportedly reached a financial settlement with a woman who accused him of sexual assault during a Republican women's conference in 2017. He has denied the allegations and maintained the encounter was consensual.

President-elect Donald Trump and his transition team have begun orchestrating what is being described as a “hostile takeover” of the federal government from his Mar-a-Lago golf resort, according to a new report.

While the incoming president and his transition team continue to build out his next administration with unorthodox Cabinet nominations that have stunned Capitol Hill, they are also skirting many traditional rules meant to facilitate a seamless transfer of power, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.

Donald Trump has chosen his campaign co-chair, Linda McMahon, to lead the Department of Education, CNN reported Tuesday afternoon.

The department has been flagged for dismantling or major overhaul by Project 2025 and even the president-elect himself.

A former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice hired by GOP lawmakers in Wisconsin to "audit" the results of the 2020 election committed major violations of attorney ethics, according to a blistering report released by state legal regulators, The Washington Post reported.

Michael Gableman, who backed Donald Trump's conspiracy theories of a stolen election despite freely admitting not to have "a comprehensive understanding or even any understanding of how elections work," caused extensive public drama throughout his special counsel investigation, at one point even threatening to arrest various local officials for not responding to his demands. He even recommended decertifying Wisconsin's 10 electoral votes, which was not possible under the law.

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-NY) picked a fight Monday with a newly elected congresswoman headed to the U.S. Capitol for the 119th United States Congress, but one former Donald Trump aide wasn't having it.

During "Hot Topics" on "The View" Tuesday, former Trump communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin slammed Mace over a planned resolution that would prevent incoming Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE), who is a transgender woman, from using a women's bathroom in the Capitol. Mace has said it "jeopardizes the safety and dignity" of female lawmakers to use the bathroom in a stall next to a transgender woman.

Union organizer and Democratic political consultant Chuck Rocha is considering whether he should run for the top spot at the national party, CBS News reported Tuesday.

Thus far, two people have launched campaigns for the party chair: Former Gov. Martin O'Malley of Maryland who ran for president in 2016, and Ken Martin, the chair of Minnesota's Democratic Party.

Hailing him as an “eminent physician” who can “Make America Healthy Again,” President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he will nominate television doctor Dr. Mehmet Oz to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services as its administrator.

Trump, who endorsed Oz in his failed race for Pennsylvania Senate two years ago, said the cardiothoracic surgeon will work closely with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who the incoming president tapped last week to serve as his next administration’s Health and Human Services secretary. Both Kennedy and Oz would require Senate confirmation to make it into their new roles.

Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) slammed Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-GA) conspiracy theory that Jewish space lasers ignited forest fires in California.

During a House Oversight Committee hearing Thursday, Moskowitz said he agreed with the decision to dismiss an employee of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, after she suggested that homes displaying support for President-elect Donald Trump should be avoided while providing hurricane relief.

Legal analysts are responding to the situation in New York where Donald Trump is still set to be sentenced for a jury's guilty verdict on 34 felony counts — even though the case looks likely to be indefinitely postponed.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg agreed to pause the sentencing in the hush money case, in which Trump was convicted of business fraud after he paid off a porn star to hide a relationship from voters in the 2016 election.

Outgoing Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has vowed that Donald Trump will not be successful in pushing the Senate into recess so that his Cabinet nominees can bypass the confirmation process.

The problem is, an expert said, neither he nor incoming Republican Senate leader John Thune (R-SD) have the power to stop him.

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), a far-right lawmaker known for her confrontational style, clashed with CNN's Boris Sanchez on Tuesday, arguing that the House Ethics Committee should not release the report on allegations against former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) — and even attacking the integrity of Senate Republicans who want to see the report before voting on him for Donald Trump's attorney general.

"I want to get your response to this attorney for the two women who testified before the House Ethics Committee, saying that Gaetz paid them for sex over ten times during a two-year period, one of them alleging that Gaetz unknowingly had sex with an underage woman," said Sanchez.