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John Ratcliffe, President-elect Donald Trump's ... including the Community Engagement & Opportunity Council supporting impoverished children, serving as a coach for the NFL’s Legends Community ...

Musk has come up several times in Duffy’s senate confirmation hearing. The world’s richest man is a close ally of Trump.

Jeff Bezos blocked an editorial in the Washington Post last year that endorsed Kamala Harris’s run for the presidency, and ...

Pam Bondi, Donald Trump's choice for attorney general, survived an at times contentious hearing while declining to say if Joe ...

Noem and committee Republicans focused on the border while Democrats asked about foreign and home-grown terrorism during a ...

Democrats repeatedly called Pete Hegseth unfit to be secretary of defense, but Republicans on the Senate Armed Services ...

Live updates on the Trump transition ahead of next week's inauguration. Follow the latest as Senate confirmation hearing continue for the incoming administration.

Tracey Nix, a retired school teacher and principal, was charged with aggravated manslaughter of a person under 18 and leaving a child unattended/unsupervised in a motor vehicle causing great bodily ...

This story has been updated to correct the committee that Durbin leads. Sen. Dick Durbin (Ill.), the top Democrat on the ...

In a minute-long TV ad, the Koch-backed Americans for Prosperity, or AFP, described the Trump tax cuts as “a landmark law ...