We don’t yet know the precise numbers, but it appears once again that four out of five white evangelicals voted for Donald Trump in the presidential election.

Evangelical support was by no means decisive; a similar percentage voted for Trump when he lost in 2020. But when a supermajority of a group that comprises approximately 25% of the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — On election night, a Southern California pastor in a red MAGA hat filmed a message for his Instagram followers, cheering President-elect Donald Trump's victory.

Rob McCoy thanked God — and Charlie Kirk, one of the Republican Party's most influential power brokers.

"This is the epicenter of a rebirth of freedom," McCoy said ...Read more

As Joe Biden’s presidency enters its last weeks, officials are rushing “to preserve at least some of the outgoing president’s legacy,” The Associated Press reports, before Donald Trump takes over in January.

“Let’s make every day count,” President Joe Biden said after the election.

That means spend, spend and spend some more, ...Read more

We are a few weeks removed from the election, and Democrats do not appear to be any closer to truly understanding why they lost so much ground to Donald Trump with so many demographics. It’s clear to me that comprehending what happened and why will have to come from somewhere other than political operatives within the party, cable news media ...Read more

Beginning in January 2025, Republicans in Washington will achieve what’s commonly known as a governing “trifecta”: control over the executive branch via the president, combined with majorities for their party in both the House and the Senate.

You might think that a trifecta, which is also referred to as “unified government” ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump continues to reach into the ranks of loyalists, allies and television personalities as he fills out the remainder of his Cabinet.

On Tuesday, he chose Cantor Fitzgerald LP Chief Executive Officer Howard Lutnick to lead the Commerce Department, a central position in an administration that will likely ...Read more

Democratic lawmakers in the House say they will stand against the Trump administration’s plans to mess with popular safety net programs like Social Security and Medicare, or any other part of the “far-right” agenda offered by Republicans in the 119th Congress.

After reelecting New York Rep. Hakeem Jeffries as House Minority Leader on ...Read more

The Biden administration is beginning to refer to Edmundo González Urrutia as Venezuela’s president-elect, a senior administration official said, its strongest acknowledgment yet that the opposition candidate won July’s presidential election.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told partners about the decision in a meeting yesterday at ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Vice President-elect JD Vance is arranging meetings between key Republican senators and attorney general pick Matt Gaetz as well as Pete Hegseth, whom President-elect Donald Trump selected to run the Defense Department, according to people familiar with the matter.

Vance will be making the rounds with those candidates, two of ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday announced his intent to nominate Mehmet Oz — better known by his television moniker “Dr. Oz” — to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

If confirmed, Oz would oversee a sprawling federal agency that manages health care coverage for nearly half of Americans through ...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday he plans to nominate Mehmet Oz, a celebrity heart surgeon and former daytime television host, as administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Oz, a 64-year-old cardiothoracic surgeon, has no experience running a government agency, and has been accused by many U.S. physicians ...Read more

President-elect Donald J. Trump said Tuesday he plans to nominate the longtime celebrity doctor and one-time Pennsylvania GOP Senate candidate, Mehmet Oz, to head the federal department in charge of Medicare and Medicaid.

Trump said he will nominate Oz as administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS, a role that ...Read more

When President-elect Donald Trump announced his pick for U.S. solicitor general, he tapped one of the leading anti-abortion lawyers in Missouri: D. John Sauer.

Sauer was solicitor general of Missouri from 2017 through 2022 under Republican Sens. Josh Hawley and Eric Schmitt, when they each served as Missouri attorney general. In that role, ...Read more

NEW YORK — Manhattan prosecutors on Tuesday told the judge presiding over President-elect Donald Trump’s criminal hush money case they concede he may need to consider pushing back sentencing until Trump is out of office — but they plan to fight Trump’s renewed efforts to get the verdict tossed.

In a court filing, prosecutors asked state...Read more

LOS ANGELES — An Orange County congressional race that has become the closest in the country currently has such a slim margin of victory that it feels more like a small-town city council contest than a race for the House of Representatives.

On Thursday, Republican Rep. Michelle Steel led the race by 58 votes. Her challenger, Democrat Derek ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday that he’ll nominate billionaire Howard Lutnick, chairman and CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald LP and co-chair of the transition team, to be his commerce secretary as well as top trade adviser.

The move is widely seen as a consolation prize for Lutnick, who is overseeing Trump’s transition ...Read more

Did he or didn’t he?

Political watchers who no doubt saw the viral picture of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. aboard president-elect Donald Trump’s plane Sunday had one big question.

Did the environmental lawyer/fitness fanatic indulge in McDonald’s?

The snap in question was taken aboard Trump Force One and posted to Donald Trump Jr.’s ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Gov. Wes Moore’s administration has hired one of the world’s largest consulting and technology firms to help prepare for the cascading effects President-elect Donald Trump’s new administration could have on the state.

The short-term contract with Accenture — which did not go through the state’s typical procurement ...Read more

BALTIMORE — President-elect Donald Trump has picked a slew of news-making Cabinet appointees and is expected to turn his attention to state-based appointees, including U.S. attorneys, in the coming weeks.

Though there’s no requirement to replace current U.S. Attorney for Maryland, Erek Barron, U.S. attorneys over the past 50 years typically...Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. David Scott has not yet returned to Washington after the election season recess and will miss votes this week as he receives treatment for his ailing back in an Atlanta-area rehabilitation facility.

“I had to go ahead and take care of myself so I can be very strong, and I am,” he told The Atlanta Journal-...Read more