Eva Longoria was desperate to get out of the U.S. and she did — having “escaped” her “dystopian” homeland even before President-elect Donald Trump was reelected last week.

The “Desperate Housewives” alum, 49, who spoke at the Democratic National Convention in August and campaigned for Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential ...Read more

NEW YORK — Ex-Rep. Matt Gaetz faced rising skepticism on Thursday about his nomination to be President-elect Donald Trump’s attorney general as a congressional ethics report reportedly was set to accuse him of drug use and sexual misconduct.

Republican lawmakers suggested Gaetz, who abruptly resigned from his House seat Wednesday, would ...Read more

Haiti was in the throes of political chaos. Opponents of President Jovenel Moïse were marching through the streets of Port-au-Prince demanding his removal from office. U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, who had been railing against Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro at a Coral Gables conference, was asked about the deepening crisis.

The United States, he ...Read more

BALTIMORE — President-elect Donald Trump is sending a clear message with his lightning round of political appointments: He knows who his friends are.

From his recent appointment of Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz as attorney general to Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy leading a new Department of Government Efficiency, Trump is rewarding those who...Read more

It’s been a whirlwind week for Indonesian president Prabowo Subianto. On Nov. 9, he was breaking bread with Chinese leader Xi Jinping; three days later he was sitting down with President Joe Biden in the White House. In between, Subianto found time to reach out to Donald Trump to congratulate the incoming U.S. president on his election ...Read more

I’m a proud, first-generation, college-educated and gay Mexican American with undocumented family in the United States, including a mother who was previously deported to Mexico, and I experienced homelessness as a child. I am everything Democrats claim to support, right?

Wrong.

Democrats have accepted a progressive platform, ignoring decades...Read more

Before Missouri voted to overturn the state’s abortion ban, House Majority Leader Jonathan Patterson said lawmakers should respect the will of voters. And when voters also approved raising the state’s minimum wage, the Lee’s Summit Republican ruled out an effort to repeal that decision.

Patterson’s simple promise to abide by the results...Read more

ATLANTA — Many educators and analysts expect Donald Trump’s return to the White House in January will significantly change how schools and colleges operate and are funded.

Here’s a look at how Trump could reshape education in five areas.

Abolishing the U.S. Department of Education

The potential change that has sparked the most ...Read more

With 67% of the vote in Idaho, a vast majority of Idahoans clearly want Donald Trump to be president again.

So what’s in it for Idaho?

“Promises made, promises kept,” was a motto of the Trump campaign. So here’s a look at some of the promises made that could have a direct impact on Idaho.

Mass deportations

Trump promised mass ...Read more

The day after the presidential election, I walked into my school building, and before I could enter my office, a student, who arrived very early, asked me the following question: “Dr. McNair, is slavery coming back?” I was stunned by the question, and didn’t quite know how to immediately answer it. After all, the student was 10 years old. ...Read more

Common sense is back in America. Donald Trump is right: Not only is the Republican Party the “party of common sense,” but he has a clear mandate to bring common-sense policies back to America after years of radical leftist failure.

Trump’s 2024 victory is a win for normality and a crushing loss for left-wing Democrats who insist on ...Read more

Trump 2.0 is coming. What can we expect in the first few months?

Let’s think about the likely early actions in a few buckets.

The first bucket, what serves Trump? More than any previous president, Trump thinks of himself first. Two early moves to watch will be the extent to which Trump unravels or outright blows apart the myriad legal issues...Read more

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