Democratic jockeying for the 2028 presidential election is already underway
Nearly two dozen Democrats are seen as possible contenders ahead of an invisible primary that will be shaped partly by Trump and his second term.
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Iran said it won't try to kill Trump: U.S. official
Iran sent a written message via Swiss diplomats in mid-October saying that it would not seek to kill Donald Trump, a U.S. official told NBC News.
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Judge blocks Biden administration's rule to expand overtime pay for millions
A federal judge in Texas has blocked a new rule from the Biden administration that would have expanded access to overtime pay to millions more salaried workers across the U.S.
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RFK. Jr's controversial health stances, from vaccines to raw milk
Kennedy is Trump’s pick for health secretary, but he has a history of spreading misinformation about a range of issues.
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Pete Hegseth's remarks about women in combat are met with disgust and dissent
They lost limbs in battle, led security convoys and survived several combat tours.
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Sanchez squeezes tiny lead over Keim in tight race for Oceanside mayor
Here are the latest results in the race for Oceanside mayor.
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Democrats are already looking to revamp their early state primary calendar for 2028
Some caution that putting South Carolina to the back of the line-up could alienate Black voters.
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Matt Gaetz, Trump's pick to oversee Jan. 6 cases, backed rioters and spread conspiracy theories
Former Rep. Matt Gaetz, the Florida Republican who Donald Trump wants to be the next attorney general of the United States, has spread lies about the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and championed the cause of Jan. 6 defendants whose cases he would oversee if confirmed to the job.
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Pete Hegseth, Trump's pick for defense secretary, faced sex assault allegation
Hegseth, a former Fox News host, was not charged with a crime in connection with the reported 2017 incident.
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Speaker Mike Johnson says he will ‘strongly request' that Ethics Committee withhold its Matt Gaetz report
Johnson said that it would be a “terrible breach of protocol” if the committee released the report on Gaetz, who resigned from the House this week.
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Will Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy's new ‘department' actually be able to do anything?
The “Department of Government Efficiency” won’t be a real government agency. In fact, it won’t even be part of the federal government.
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Republicans made substantial gains in state legislative battlegrounds
Republicans ended up flipping, maintaining control of, or expanding their majority in nearly all of the state legislative chambers across the country where partisan control was up for grabs on Election Day.
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Trump meets with Argentina's president and says he's a ‘MAGA person'
Donald Trump has met at his Mar-a-Lago club with Argentine President Javier Milei, the first foreign leader to meet with the president-elect since his victory in last week’s election.
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Trump announces North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum as his pick for interior secretary
Burgum ran for president in the 2024 election cycle.
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Trump to nominate his criminal defense lawyer for deputy attorney general
The president-elect said he’d chosen Todd Blanche, who represented him in his criminal trial this year, for the No. 2 job at the Justice Department.
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Former Detroit Lions player charged in Jan. 6 riot
Leander Antwione Williams, a linebacker who played with the Lions in the 2016 season, is charged with two felonies in connection with the attack on the Capitol in 2021.
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What are recess appointments, and how could Trump use them to fill his Cabinet?
President-elect Donald Trump is considering recess appointments to skip over Senate confirmations for some of the most powerful positions in the U.S. government.
