Decision 2024

Here are five things to know about Paul Atkins, former commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Trump nominee for SEC chairman.

Democrat Adam Gray has flipped California’s 13th District, handing Republicans a slimmer majority in the House.

Kash Patel has been well-known for years within Donald Trump’s orbit as a loyal supporter who shares the president-elect’s skepticism of the FBI and intelligence community. But he’s receiving fresh attention, from the public and from Congress, now that Trump has selected him to lead the FBI. As he braces for a bruising and likely protracted Senate confirmation fight, Patel...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is weighing which proposed rules on its agenda to finalize before the end of the Biden administration.

President-elect Donald Trump on Monday sent shockwaves across multiple countries, vowing sweeping new tariffs as soon as he takes office as part of his effort to crack down on illegal immigration and drugs.

President-elect Donald Trump says he will nominate former White House aide Brooke Rollins to be his agriculture secretary.

A Republican lawmaker in Maine accused of choking his wife last month won re-election by a single vote after a Thursday recount.

Bondi served as the Florida attorney general from 2011 to 2019 after she was the first woman elected to the office.

Senator Bob Casey has conceded in the race for reelection to the U.S. Senate to Republican Dave McCormick.

Here are five things to know about former wrestling executive Linda McMahon.

Kirabo Jackson, professor of education and social policy at Northwestern University and former economic advisor to President Biden, discusses how education policy in the U.S. may shift under the new Trump administration.

Eighteen months after the pandemic ended, nearly two-thirds of the country’s 2.2 million federal workers are still approved to work from home. 

A recess appointment takes place when a president bypasses the Senate to confirm cabinet nominees when both the House and Senate are not in session for at least 10 days.

The House speaker Johnson told “Fox News Sunday” that “we’ll have to see how this develops” when asked whether he’d let Trump bypass the usual Senate confirmation process.

President-elect Donald Trump walked out to a roaring standing ovation just ahead of the start of the UFC pay-per-view card at Madison Square Garden on Saturday night, combining two things close to his heart: fierce battles inside the octagon and New York City.

Nearly two dozen Democrats are seen as possible contenders ahead of an invisible primary that will be shaped partly by Trump and his second term.

Leavitt, 27, currently a spokesperson for Trump’s transition, would be the youngest White House press secretary in history.

Former Rep. Matt Gaetz, the Florida Republican who Donald Trump wants to be the next attorney general of the United States, has spread lies about the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and championed the cause of Jan. 6 defendants whose cases he would oversee if confirmed to the job.

Hegseth, a former Fox News host, was not charged with a crime in connection with the reported 2017 incident.

The “Department of Government Efficiency” won’t be a real government agency. In fact, it won’t even be part of the federal government.