President-elect Donald Trump has tapped several sitting members of Congress to serve in his administration — meaning their empty seats will have to be filled.

So far, he has chosen Florida Sen. Marco Rubio to serve as secretary of state and New York Rep. Elise Stefanik to serve as his U.N. ambassador. Both positions require Senate ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — The Boise trial in a lawsuit challenging Idaho’s near-total abortion ban concluded Thursday after six days of tense proceedings and emotional testimony from women who said they were forced to leave the state for medical procedures.

The trial seeking clarity on health exceptions for abortions prompted tearful testimony from ...Read more

A California woman accused defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth of sexually assaulting her in his hotel room in 2017 after taking her phone and refusing to let her leave, according to a just-released police report.

The woman told cops that President-elect Trump’s pick to lead the Pentagon blocked her from leaving the room before forcing ...Read more

Former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley isn’t on board with several of Trump’s Cabinet picks, she told listeners on her recent podcast episode of Nikki Haley Live.

The former 2024 presidential candidate is concerned about some of Trump’s picks, but said she is looking at the policies for these nominations instead of personalities.

She...Read more

President-elect Trump's nomination of Brendan Carr as the next chairman of the Federal Communications Commission is bringing both hope and fear to the media industry.

For media executives, the hope comes in the promise of industry consolidation.

Companies such as Fox Television Stations, Nexstar Media Group, Tegna and Gray Media are eager to ...Read more

BOSTON — Boston Mayor Michelle Wu continues to be in the national spotlight after she vowed and doubled down that the city will not cooperate with federal immigration enforcement when President-elect Trump regains office.

“The Five” on Fox News spoke at length Wednesday about Wu and other elected officials who have said they will continue...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, said he was “shocked” by President-elect Donald Trump’s choice of anti-vaccine activist and former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to run the Department of Health and Human Services.

Calling Kennedy an “agent of ...Read more

The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants on Nov. 21, 2024, for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his former defense minister and one leading Hamas official. Those named in the action are accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity relating to the Oct. 7, 2023, attack by the Palestinian militant group and the ...Read more

DENVER — Gun violence in Denver is going down.

So far this year, the city has seen a 12% decrease in overall gun violence compared to the same point in 2023, including a 30% drop in the number of fatal shootings and a 28% drop in non-fatal shootings, Denver police Cmdr. Jake Herrera told City Council members Wednesday during a presentation to...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — On a Sunday morning in a Northeast Philadelphia American Legion, Bill Hamilton opened his monthly union membership meeting with an allusion to the biggest business of the day: President-elect Donald Trump had won the election in the weeks since their last meeting.

The Pledge of Allegiance was recited. A moment of silence was ...Read more

BEIRUT — During his first term as president, Donald Trump took a bold if controversial approach to the Middle East.

He moved the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, forged landmark deals between Israel and some Arab states and tore up the international nuclear deal with Iran.

He imposed his will using a transactional style of...Read more

The United States presents a paradox: Though the media and public opinion suggest it is a nation deeply divided along partisan lines, surveys reveal that Americans share significant common ground on many core values and political issues.

As a political philosopher, I am deeply concerned about the perceived contrast between the public�...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A woman told Monterey police that Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump's pick for Defense secretary, took her phone, blocked her from leaving his hotel room and sexually assaulted her, according to a newly released police report.

On Wednesday evening, the Monterey Police Department released a 22-page report revealing ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump’s first actions upon taking office in January could set the tone for how much he plans to leave the issue of regulating abortion to the states.

Presidents typically make two key global family planning decisions during their first week in office: whether to fund the United Nations Population Fund, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — With Donald Trump’s Electoral College victory and narrow edge in the national popular vote, Republicans believe the president-elect has completely reformed the party coalitions.

Trump swept the swing states this year and cut his margins significantly in Democratic states. But how much has the state-by-state partisan landscape ...Read more

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will have no shortage of targets when they burrow into the bureaucracy in an effort to make the federal government more efficient and cost effective. But one quarry stands out: the Pentagon.

Last week, the Department of Defense failed its seventh audit in a row, unable to account for portions of its $824 billion ...Read more

Is it possible to bridge America’s stark political divisions?

In the wake of a presidential election that many feared could tear the U.S. apart, this question is on many people’s minds.

A record-high 80% of Americans believe the U.S. is greatly divided on “the most important values”. Ahead of the election, a similar ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — President-elect Donald Trump announced Wednesday he's nominating Pete Hoekstra, chairman of the Michigan Republican Party, to be the next U.S. ambassador to Canada.

The development means a Michigan resident will have a role in the coming Trump administration and state Republicans will have to select a new leader in the coming...Read more

SEATTLE — In the early hours of Nov. 6, as it became clear that Donald Trump was poised to win his reelection bid for the presidency, the LGBTQ+ youth chat and text line for crisis line operator Volunteers of America began lighting up with calls and texts from teenagers.

The chat line saw nearly double the number of messages it normally gets ...Read more