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President-elect Donald Trump will nominate Fox News host and Army veteran Pete Hegseth to serve as his defense secretary.

New York Rep. Elise Stefanik has been tapped to be Trump's U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Stefanik joined Congress as ...

Ratcliffe, a former Republican congressman from Texas ... Ratcliffe was criticized by Democrats for declassifying in the ...

President-elect Donald Trump is expected to announce his intention to nominate Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., for Secretary of ...

President-elect Donald Trump has started to make some of the pivotal picks for his second administration after swiftly ...

We've also seen that a lot of election offices have been really preparing for this because poll workers have been worried to ...

Many Democrats failed to turn out to vote at the rate they did in 2020 when they ousted Donald Trump, according to an ...

NBC News hasn't called the Senate race in Pennsylvania, where Democrats are holding out hope even as Republican Dave ...

Psychologists and anthropologists have spent years observing the president-elect and being baffled by voters who say he ...

Ms. Stefanik, who chairs the House Republican Conference, undertook a dramatic transformation that brought her to the center ...

Plus: A month after Helene, we hear stories of heroism and heartbreak out of North Carolina. All these and more stories on ...