President-elect Donald Trump continued his whirlwind of Cabinet pick announcements on Thursday afternoon, tapping Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. Kennedy, the nephew of former President John F. Kennedy, ran for president in the 2024 Democratic primary but later ended his bid to run as an independent candidate. […]

President-elect Donald Trump will begin his second nonconsecutive term with Republican control of both chambers of Congress, including a 53-47 Senate majority. However, the House Republican majority is likely no higher than a narrow 221-214, or perhaps a seat more. Still, the former and future president’s victories in both the Electoral College and the popular […]

HUNTINGTON BEACH, California — Finally, an election result Ronald Reagan would recognize — or at least something close to it. The late Republican president and GOP candidates up and down the ballot once dominated Orange County, California, elections. Reagan won nearly 75% of the vote there during his 1984 reelection landslide, and Republican presidential nominees […]

Vice President-elect J.D. Vance hasn’t been shy about changing his political allegiances when convenient. Emerging from a tour in Iraq with the Marines to attend the Ohio State University and later Yale Law School, Vance burst into public as a bestselling author in 2016. The criticisms Vance initially leveled at Donald Trump back then are well-documented […]