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Get the latest news on the transition to the new administration of President-elect Donald Trump and a new Congress.
President Joe Biden's federal student loan forgiveness program, which promises to deliver up to $20,000 of debt relief for millions of borrowers, is on hold indefinitely as legal challenges work their way through the courts.
Pete Hegseth faces critical challenges in addressing U.S. vulnerabilities to advanced missile and drone threats as global tensions rise.
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An election is not a jury verdict, and winning an election doesn’t make you any less guilty.
Trump vowed to lower food prices. His policies will almost certainly do the opposite.
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp says that justice was served after a judge sentenced the 26-year-old migrant from Venezuela who was convicted of murdering Laken Riley to a life sentence in prison.
With them, Trump will tear down any person or institution that tried to restrain his worst impulses or hold him accountable
The chief executive of Delta Air Lines said the incoming Trump administration will be a "breath of fresh air" for airlines after what he called government "overreach" under President Joe Biden.
Getting rid of the agency would cause a lot of harm and wouldn't really change school curriculum.
Let's start with the positive: Republicans and Democrats are coming together to protect same-sex marriage from the Supreme Court.
Donald Trump has begun selecting people to fill top administration jobs in Washington upon returning to the Oval Office in January. Trump beat Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election.
The guilty conviction Wednesday of Venezuelan illegal immigrant Jose Ibarra for murdering Laken Riley on the University of Georgia's campus can hopefully "help bring some peace and closure to her wonderful family," President-elect Donald Trump said.
Here are the people Donald Trump has picked or is considering to fill his Cabinet and key positions in his administration.
Why it can't fix our messy politics.
The chairman of the U.S. House Ethics Committee said on Wednesday the panel had not reached an agreement on whether to release findings of its probe into allegations of sexual misconduct by Matt Gaetz, President-elect Donald Trump's pick for attor…
The G.O.P. speaker sided with hard-right members of his conference who called for blocking Representative-elect Sarah McBride, the first transgender member of Congress, from using Capitol women’s rooms.
The Winklevoss twins, Rebekah Mercer, allies of Elon Musk, Donald Trump Jr. and top Trump campaign aides recently joined a conclave of right-wing donors who are suddenly flush with power.
Nearly 200 migrant advocacy groups called for President Biden and Secretary Mayorkas to make sweeping moves ahead of Donald Trump's return to the White House.
Italy knows a thing or two about what the United States faces—but there are key differences between the two countries’ experiences.
Louisiana's plan to make all of the state's public school classrooms post the Ten Commandments remains on hold under an order Wednesday by a federal appeals court in New Orleans.
The conspiratorial and chaotic independent is poised to join the government that he claims is lying to you.
While Islam traditionally treated Jews with contempt, antisemitic conspiracy theories imported from Germany escalated this animosity by vilifying Jews as agents of diabolical evil.
Mr. Whitaker briefly served as acting attorney general in Mr. Trump’s first term.
Automotive experts reveal their thoughts on President-elect Trump reportedly considering a slash to the tax credit for electric vehicles.
Fareed explains why AI's massive energy demands are straining the power grid, but also why AI could enable big breakthroughs in sustainability and clean energy.
The Communist Party bears responsibility for the outbursts of Chinese hatred against Japan and its citizens.
Go beyond the soundbites and get to know some of the most interesting players in politics.
Vice President Kamala Harris, a former US senator from California who previously served as the state's attorney general, could be the first Black woman and Asian American to lead a major party ticket after receiving President Joe Biden's support t…
The return to power of President-elect Donald J. Trump, who has vowed to confront China on tariffs, has created deep uncertainty about the U.S. role in avoiding global conflicts.
Republican senators have some concerns about Trump's choice of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt is planning to deport criminal illegal immigrants in state prisons, coinciding with a push by the incoming Trump administration.
Back taxes, youthful pot smoking and undocumented nannies scuttled previous presidential choices. Some of President-elect Donald J. Trump’s candidates face bigger questions.
Pollster Nate Silver called for President Joe Biden to resign on Wednesday and allow Vice President Kamala Harris to finish out the last two months of his presidency.
Senators in both parties have demanded to see the committee’s investigative report into sexual misconduct and illicit drug use allegations against Donald J. Trump’s choice for attorney general.
The Biden administration managed to rack up a long list of major legislative wins in its first two years despite facing one of the most closely-divided Congresses in history. From bipartisan action on infrastructure, gun safety and same-sex marria…
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, called for President-elect Donald Trump's health administration appointees to face "extensive committee investigations" as part of the confirmation process, Axios reported.
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Vice President-elect JD Vance was on Capitol Hill with Mr. Gaetz, the former representative that President-elect Donald J. Trump wants to be his attorney general.
Tuesday on the RealClearPolitics radio show -- weeknights at 6:00 p.m. on SiriusXM's POTUS Channel 124 and then on Apple, Spotify, and here on our website -- Tom Bevan, Andrew Walworth, and Carl Cannon talk about the recount of the still-contested…
The next chairman will inherit a troubled SEC, along with its problems and problem children. The chairman will need to clean house and end flawed enforcement actions that ring of regulation by enforcement.
Trump’s pick for attorney general will get to burnish his MAGA-loyalist credentials whether or not the Senate confirms him.
The election has led some women to take the lead from the South Korean feminist protest by boycotting relationships with men.
Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema decided to shake up the political world on Friday by becoming an independent. The former Democrat is still caucusing with the party in the Senate, so the Democratic caucus still has 51 members. Now, instead of 49 Democr…
The elections of the 2030s are already taking shape a and Democratic governors are making the next decade's fights for the House and White House much harder for their party to win.
The state’s Republican-controlled legislature passed a sweeping bill that would erode the power of the Democratic governor and attorney general and hand the G.O.P. more control over elections.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., urged his Senate GOP colleagues not to form a "lynch mob" and to give Matt Gaetz a fair shot during his confirmation hearings to be U.S. attorney general.
The sheer quantity of individually unqualified selections might make blocking any of them harder.
Just shocked, I tell you.
Almost all Americans say they support democracy—but they have very different ideas about what the word means.
The Senate will vote on measures brought by Sen. Bernie Sanders and a handful of Democrats to block the sale of some $20 billion in U.S.-made weapons to Israel.
A conversation with a Democrat who did.
‘Megalopolis’ and the rise and fall of Francis Ford Coppola.
Queer theory transformed me from a depressed, weird, intellectually curious child into a brainwashed teen who disfigured her body.
No centrist who understands the current moment has ever truly laid out their case to the Democratic Party base in the context of a serious political campaign. It’s time to change that.
Swing-state successes in the last midterms gave the party false optimism about 2024.
Whoever becomes the next Archbishop of Canterbury will face the arduous task of uniting the now-radicalised wings of the Church of England.
It just might be the most personal hiring decision President-elect Trump will ever make, but if he's already chosen, he's keeping the contenders in suspense.
Views of Trump’s administration picks are mixed, but many Americans simply have no opinion.
The House Ethics Committee held a meeting on Wednesday but did not reach an agreement to release the report on its investigation into former Rep. Matt Gaetz.
Hein de Haas’s new book has been billed as a balanced, fact-based approach to the immigration debate. In fact, it is just another Pollyannaish pro-immigration polemic.
As prosecutors push to preserve President-elect Donald Trump's historic conviction, his lawyers urged a judge Wednesday to ignore them and scrap the case before he takes office in January.Echoing their stance since Trump's win, his lawyers argued...
There are still four uncalled House races that will determine the size of the Republican majority in Congress after the 2024 elections.
Peter Thiel during an interview with Bari Weiss last week spke about how modern science is failing to balance skepticism and dogmatism.
Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats have requested that the FBI send its file on President-elect Donald Trump's attorney general nominee Matt Gaetz, Politico reported on Wednesday.
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to author Adam Kirsch about the growing corps of academics and activists seeking to demonise ‘settler colonialists’ in North America, Australia—and especially Israel.
Two Georgia election workers want a judge to force Rudy Guliani to stop repeating false claims that resulted in a $148 million judgment against him.
A northwest Ohio House race that many believed could determine who ultimately controls the House of Representatives was called by The Associated Press three weeks after Election Day.
Whitaker has little to no experience in security or foreign policy, both of which are central to the NATO role.
The first year of Trump’s new administration may be as dangerous as the last year of his previous one.
A high school athlete's family filed a Title IX complaint after she was moved to junior varsity to make room for a transgender athlete on the varsity squad.
Ignoring the far-left’s identitarian agenda is not enough.
How to avoid a contentious family holiday after the big election.
Israel’s failure to tamp down the short-range rocket threat has put pressure on its government to embrace a cease-fire.
Look closely at almost anything and you'll find data—lots of it. But what are those numbers really saying about who we are and what we believe? Harry Enten is on a mission to find out.
President-elect Donald J. Trump is assembling a team of aides bent on confrontation with China. But he also has advisers who do business there, including Elon Musk.
David Schoen, who served as Donald Trump's impeachment lawyer, told Newsmax that the New York paperwork case against the president-elect "must be dismissed."
Iona Italia talks to Sam Bowman about how to combat the economic stagnation and excess bureaucracy that are currently preventing the UK from reaching its full potential.
In the wake of the Republican National Convention earlier this month, Fareed speaks with historian Niall Ferguson about how and why the modern-day GOP has changed since the Reagan era of the 1980s.
All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
A new version of Tinto Brass and Bob Guccione’s notorious 1979 film ‘Caligula’ provides a valuable record of one of the most fascinating disasters in cinema history.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., on Wednesday announced a new policy to prevent transgender women from using women's bathrooms on the House side of Capitol Hill, Politico reported.
Like a Hieronymus Bosch painting, it’s chaos alright—but it’s a dazzling chaos.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., announced a new bathroom policy banning biological males from women's spaces at the Capitol and House office buildings.
Columnist David Marcus talks to voters in Bucks County and finds Democrats and Republicans agree that Sen. Bob Casey's refusal to concede is a bad look.
Lingering resentment over pandemic restrictions helped Kennedy and his "Make America Healthy Again" campaign draw people from the left and the right.
Hey Nate, we weren't coordinating with the Trump campaign like I think an investigation could find that Selzer may have been. I control the numbers completely myself, and they are 100% a product of my own work. You should probably retract that.
Many Christians were "scared to speak out" during the presidential election, but the way to do that is with "kindness and respect," actor Candace Cameron Bure said.
The House Ethics Committee is expected to vote on whether to release its investigation into the former congressman.