President-elect Donald Trump nominated a flurry of allies to Cabinet posts over the past seven days, with his timing and picks coming as a marked shift from his first term in office.  Trump has named 11 candidates who require Senate confirmation to head Washington’s executive departments since Nov. 11. Since winning the 2024 presidential election […]

President-elect Donald Trump‘s nominee to head the Department of Defense, Pete Hegseth, is facing a wave of accusations that he bears tattoos associated with white supremacy ideology. Hegseth has pushed back against the accusations, calling objections to his tattoos — a Jerusalem Cross and the Latin phrase “Deus Vult” — manifestations of “anti-Christian bigotry.” Here […]

Nearly 40 years before former Marine Daniel Penny captured headlines for the death of Jordan Neely, another case brought questions of crime and self-defense to the forefront of the national dialogue. On Dec. 22, 1984, four black teenagers approached electronics specialist Bernhard Goetz, 37, on the New York City subway. After one of them said, […]

Four years ago, the Associated Press was unable to call several states until weeks after the presidential election, but in the 2024 race, the outlet called every state by the end of the week. The speed of results being projected for several of the key swing states was noticeably faster than in 2020, allowing President-elect […]