With hours to go before a midnight government shutdown, the House approved a new plan from House Speaker Mike Johnson that would temporarily fund federal operations and disaster aid, but dropped President-elect Donald Trump’s demands for a debt limit increase into the new year. The vote came a day after the House rejected Trump’s new […]

President-elect Donald Trump on Dec. 16 hosted his first press conference after winning the 2024 presidential election, addressing a range of topics from the Russia-Ukraine war to his thoughts on the recent drone sightings in the Northeast. Trump’s remarks covered plans to reevaluate childhood vaccines through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), […]

President Joe Biden is reviewing other pardons and commutations, according to the White House on Thursday. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre weighed in on the move in her first public remarks since the president’s controversial decision to pardon his son Hunter Biden on Dec. 1. During Thursday’s press briefing, Jean-Pierre was asked whether the […]

President-elect Trump selected Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to lead the National Institutes of Health. Jenin Younes, an attorney for Bhattacharya in the Murthy v. Missouri case and litigation counsel at the New Civil Liberties Alliance, speaks with NTD about Trump’s choice.  

New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan has delayed indefinitely sentencing in President-elect Donald Trump’s business records case, raising questions about the future of the prosecution and whether sentencing will take place. Sentencing was initially scheduled for July but was postponed until Nov. 26. In an order on Nov. 22, Merchan said that he was […]

President-elect Donald Trump has tapped Pam Bondi to serve as U.S. attorney general in his new administration. Trump made the announcement on Thursday just hours after Matt Gaetz revealed he would be withdrawing from consideration for the position of attorney general. In his announcement, the president-elect praised Bondi for her previous work on a Trump […]

Former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) has withdrawn from consideration for the position of attorney general, he announced on Thursday. “While the momentum was strong, it is clear that my confirmation was unfairly becoming a distraction to the critical work of the Trump/Vance Transition,” Gaetz wrote in a post on the X social media platform. “There […]

President-elect Donald Trump traveled to Texas on Tuesday to join Elon Musk to watch SpaceX’s sixth launch of its Starship super-heavy reusable rocket program. “Good luck to Elon Musk and the Great Patriots involved in this incredible project,” Trump said in a Truth Social post, while en route to Texas. The roughly 400-foot-tall rocket system, designed […]

President-elect Donald J. Trump announced a proposed new council to implement his far-reaching energy policies to be led by North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, his pick to lead the Department of the Interior. Burgum will chair “the newly formed, and very important, National Energy Council, which will consist of all Departments and Agencies involved in the […]

President-elect Donald Trump on Nov. 14 said he is “thrilled to announce” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) in a statement on social media. “For too long, Americans have been crushed by the industrial food complex and drug companies who have engaged in deception, misinformation, and […]

President-elect Donald Trump on Nov. 13 said he’s selecting Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) to be attorney general in the second Trump administration. Gaetz “will end Weaponized Government, protect our Borders, dismantle Criminal Organizations and restore Americans’ badly-shattered Faith and Confidence in the Justice Department,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social. Gaetz, 42, […]

President-elect Donald Trump has announced the newest members of his second administration. On Tuesday, Trump released another round of picks for spots on his Cabinet and key advisor roles. Some of these high-profile positions require Senate confirmation, while others do not need congressional approval. Here are Trump’s latest picks for his new team: National Security […]

President-elect Donald Trump has moved quickly to fill key roles in his upcoming administration after securing a decisive victory in the 2024 election. So far, Trump’s new team has taken shape with longtime allies and loyal advisors who support his agenda. Here are his current publicly announced picks: White House Chief of Staff: Susan Wiles […]

President-elect Donald Trump highlights his massive win on social media, with his team breaking down which demographics helped him get there. It comes as he’s starting to fill key positions in his incoming administration.  

U.S. authorities thwarted an Iranian plot to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump, new documents reveal. The Justice Department unsealed criminal charges on Nov. 8 against three men who it is alleged were involved in a murder-for-iran network orchestrated by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which the United States designates as a terrorist organization. “The Justice […]

President Joe Biden addressed the nation on Thursday, following former President Donald Trump’s victory over Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election. “We accept the choice the country made,” said Biden, speaking from the White House Rose Garden. “Campaigns are contests of competing visions. The country chooses one or the other.” Biden said […]

WARREN, Mich./MILWAUKEE, Wis.—Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump made a series of dueling campaign stops in the key battleground states of Wisconsin and Michigan on Nov. 1. With the election just days away, the contest remains close. Polling averages on Oct. 31 showed Trump just barely ahead by 0.3 percent nationwide, but […]

Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris sought to distance herself from President Joe Biden’s comment referring to Trump supporters as “garbage,” as the former president told supporters at a Trump rally that Harris and Biden “mean it.” The White House released a transcript of Biden’s remarks, which was revised to appear like the president […]

Former President Donald Trump held a star-studded campaign rally at the Madison Square Garden in New York City on Sunday, making his closing argument to the American people just nine days before Election Day. “Are you better off now than you were four years ago?” Trump asked, to which his supporters responded in a chorus […]

President Joe Biden became the first president to formally apologize to America’s Indian nations for the more than 150 years of forcing tribal children to attend federal Indian boarding schools. “I have a solid responsibility to be the first president to formally apologize to the native peoples, Native Americans, Native Hawaiians, Native Alaskans for the […]