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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Democratic Rep. Jared Golden wins through Maine's ranked choice voting
Democratic Rep. Jared Golden won reelection to Congress through Maine’s ranked choice system on Friday. It’s the third time in four elections in the hotly contested district that Golden won after votes were retabulated because first choices failed to produce a majority for any candidate. This time it was Republican challenger Austin The... -
Woman told House ethics committee she saw Gaetz have sex with minor, her lawyer says
Matt Gaetz is president-elect Donald Trump’s choice to become U.S. attorney general.
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Kennedy as health secretary sparks pushback from some in Mass., but not all
President-elect Donald Trump’s unorthodox pick for health and human services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has drawn a range of pushback from Massachusetts’ top elected leaders. Kennedy is the latest in a string of eyebrow raising picks from Trump, including Matt Gaetz for attorney general and Fox News host Pete Hegseth for defense ... -
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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Sen. Susan Collins plans to seek reelection in 2026
Republican Sen. Susan Collins is planning to run for a sixth term in two years, NBC affiliate News Center Maine reported. The senator made the announcement of her 2026 campaign at a stop Friday in Vassalboro. Collins has been in office since 1997 and has staked out a moderate position in the Republican Party. Earlier this week, she voiced skepticis... -
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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Analysis | Other presidents' controversial Cabinet picks, and what's next for Matt Gaetz
With President-elect Donald Trump announcing Matt Gaetz as his pick to be attorney general and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary, political analyst Sue O’Connell reviews previous presidents’ controversial Cabinet choices. Plus, what will become of the House Ethics Committee’s report on Gaetz?
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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.
