WASHINGTON — Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy predicted that President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of Matt Gaetz to be attorney general would be rejected by the Republican Senate next year.

“Gaetz won’t get confirmed, everybody knows that,” McCarthy said in an interview with Bloomberg Television at the Barclays Asia Forum in ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida to serve as U.S. attorney general, a surprising and highly controversial pick that could set up a confirmation battle in the Senate.

At a Wednesday evening press conference, U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters that Gaetz had resigned from Congress �...Read more

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump returned to the nation’s capital Wednesday for the first time since winning election, meeting with congressional leaders, sitting in the Oval Office with President Joe Biden and announcing a flurry of high-profile nominations for his Cabinet.

The visit to the White House and Capitol Hill offered a ...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump’s pick of Rep. Matt Gaetz for attorney general sent a clear signal through Washington on Wednesday that Trump intends for his Justice Department to take a sharp-elbowed, hyper-partisan approach to law and order — one that is both unquestioningly loyal to Trump and openly antagonistic toward his political ...Read more

In classic Trump fashion, the nation learned who is in line to lead the world’s largest military apparatus via social media.

Former mid-level Army officer and current Fox News host Pete Hegseth is the president-elect’s nominee for secretary of defense.

If you’ve never heard of Hegseth you aren’t alone, and President Donald Trump’s ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida to serve as U.S. attorney general, a surprising and highly controversial pick that could set up a confirmation battle in the Senate as the congressman continues to battle accusations of illicit drug use and sex trafficking.

At a Wednesday evening news ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida to serve as U.S. attorney general, a surprising and highly controversial pick that could set up a confirmation battle in the Senate as the congressman continues to battle accusations of illicit drug use and sex trafficking.

A far-right firebrand, Gaetz spread ...Read more

Comptroller Brad Lander on Wednesday warned that a Donald Trump presidency would pose “grave risks” to New York City — including nearly $8 billion in federal funding thrown into jeopardy.

Lander gave the bleak assessment at a press conference announcing a report on the impacts of the 2024 elections — saying that if Trump cuts federal ...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump has formally named U.S. Sen Marco Rubio as his pick for secretary of state, elevating a Miami native and Latin America foreign policy hawk to the highest ranks of the U.S. State Department.

Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants who fled the island before Fidel Castro’s 1959 revolution, is widely expected to coast ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida to serve as U.S. attorney general, a surprising and highly controversial pick that could set up a confirmation battle in the Senate as the congressman continues to battle accusations of illicit drug use and sex trafficking.

A far-right firebrand, Gaetz spread ...Read more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Republican U.S. House candidate Nick Begich III moved closer to defeating Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola after 38,000 Alaska ballots were counted Tuesday.

Begich was ahead by 10,133 votes before Tuesday’s ballot count. He now leads by 9,550 votes, or just over 3%.

The Alaska Division of Elections had around 71,000 ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Democratic Rep. Mike Levin has been reelected to a fourth term representing the 49th Congressional District, a race with national implications but one that remained too close to call until a week after Election Day.

“This was a hard-fought, competitive race, and I am proud of the incredible work we put in as a team with hundreds...Read more

President Joe Biden welcomed President-elect Donald Trump back to the White House on Wednesday and held a meeting with the incoming commander-in-chief that ran for nearly two hours.

“Welcome back,” Biden declared as the two men sat in front of a roaring fire.

“Politics is tough, (but) it is a nice world today,” Trump replied after they...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — District Attorney Larry Krasner’s election-related lawsuit against Elon Musk — in which Philadelphia’s top prosecutor accused the tech billionaire of running an illegal lottery by giving money to Pennsylvania voters — failed to establish proof that the contest met even the most basic definition of a lottery, the judge ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Rep. Ken Calvert, the longest-serving Republican member of California's congressional delegation, will return to the U.S. House of Representatives next year after defeating Democrat Will Rollins, a former federal prosecutor, in a hotly contested race to represent a Riverside County swing district.

Calvert's narrow victory comes ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump returned to the nation’s capital Wednesday for the first time since winning election, meeting with congressional leaders, sitting in the Oval Office with President Biden and announcing a flurry of high-profile nominations for his Cabinet.

The visit to the White House and Capitol Hill offered a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida to serve as U.S. attorney general, a surprising and highly controversial pick that could set up a confirmation battle in the Senate as the congressman continues to battle accusations of illicit drug use and sex trafficking.

A far-right firebrand, Gaetz spread ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump confirmed that he intends to nominate US Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida to be his secretary of State, naming a onetime rival to a high-ranking cabinet post.

“He will be a strong Advocate for our Nation, a true friend to our Allies, and a fearless Warrior who will never back down to our adversaries,” ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Democratic state Sen. Dave Min won an open congressional seat in coastal Orange County, defeating Republican business owner Scott Baugh despite recent gains in GOP voter registration.

California's 47th Congressional District is one of the most competitive races in the country and was seen by both parties as crucial in their ...Read more

Republican President-elect Donald Trump named Stephen Miller as his deputy chief of staff for policy on Wednesday.

Miller is an alumnus of Trump’s first stint in the White House, in which he served as a speechwriter and senior adviser to the president and played a major role in the administration’s decisions to separate thousands of ...Read more