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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has given his backing to the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles, vowing they will be the "greatest Games" despite concerns over the impact of the wildfire on preparations.

Casey Wasserman, chairman of the LA 2028 organizing committee, met with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago residence on Wednesday and provided full backing despite some critics calling for the Olympics to be moved.

Donald Trump's nominee to lead the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency acknowledged Thursday that man-made climate change is real in his Senate confirmation hearing.

Lee Zeldin, a former US congressman from New York, has committed to Trump's campaign pledges of boosting US energy dominance and rolling back environmental regulations enacted under President Joe Biden.

Progressive congressional staff sent a letter to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) asking to occasionally shorten their work week to 32 hours "on a rotating basis" during some of the weeks of the year when members aren't in Washington. However, it is a request that's unified both sides with criticism.

There are weeks in the congressional calendar when officials return home, leaving D.C. staff with a less demanding schedule. During those weeks, some staffers are asking for shorter schedules. In Congress staff aren't given overtime pay or compensatory time.

Georgia State Sen. Colton Moore, who in the past has led the charge against Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis for her prosecution of President-elect Donald Trump, was shoved to the ground and then arrested on Thursday for defying an order that barred him from entering the Georgia House chamber.

As Local 3 News reports, Moore had been barred from the chamber for making "comments about a deceased former colleague" that offended his fellow Republicans.

Former New York Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) admitted climate change was "real" at a confirmation hearing to lead the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

During his first term, President-elect Trump made deregulation at the EPA a top agenda item and was expected to double down during his second term.

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Donald Trump's nominee for Treasury chief spoke Thursday of ushering in "a new economic golden age," as he faced grilling by lawmakers about the incoming U.S. administration's economic agenda.

Educators and families in areas where Donald Trump's "America First" seemed to resonate the most could be hit with "catastrophic" cuts.

Tom Gambrel, the superintendent of Bell County, Kentucky, schools, joined most of his neighbors and cast his vote for Trump with his students in mind, but he told CNN that he hopes the president-elect doesn't carry through with his plan to cut federal education funding.

Members of the Republican Party who are hawkish when it comes to China should be prepared for President-elect Donald Trump to sell them down the river, warns Politico analyst Jonathan Martin.

Writing on X, Martin muses that the current drama over the fate of video app TikTok "is a nice little appetizer for the inevitable Trump-Hill tensions" about the United States' relationship with China.

A teen killed a fellow student and a teacher in a knife attack at a secondary school in northeastern Slovakia on Thursday and wounded a third woman.

The 18-year-old was detained shortly after the crime, police said.

With a reported $250 million expected to flow into Donald Trump's inauguration coffers, with tech billionaires and business execs providing a substantial amount of the cash, Politico is reporting that much of it will end up being excess that the president-elect can do with as he pleases.

As Politico's Alice Miranda Ollstein, Caitlin Oprysko and Irie Sentner are reporting, the U.S. government already funds much of the inaugural activities so, with a record haul, Trump may find himself with millions he can divert elsewhere and that has raised questions.

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani posted a video of his dog Vinny at Mar-a-Lago on Thursday when he was two hours late to trial in Manhattan.

Giuliani was expected to show up for a civil trial to determine if he could retain ownership of his Florida condo and personalized World Series rings. The former mayor was recently found in contempt after a judge ruled that he defamed two former election workers and awarded them $148 million in damages.

Just days before he is set to raise his right hand and place his left on a Bible to swear an oath to the Constitution, President-elect Donald Trump faces low public confidence in his ability to fulfill one of his top campaign promises: lowering the price of groceries. According to a new Associated Press poll, most Americans, many of whom cast their ballot on that pledge, do not believe he will bring them relief.

“From the day I take the oath of office, we’ll rapidly drive prices down and make America affordable again,” Trump told supporters on the campaign trail in North Carolina, the Washington Post reported. “Prices will come down. You just watch. They’ll come down fast.”