Hawaii Governor warns about RFK Jr. being picked as HHS Secretary

It seems that even though Donald Trump is heading back to the White House, Melania Trump is continuing this controversial business venture, and isn't slowing down anytime soon. Earlier this week, Melania released a limited-edition photo series called "On the Move," which shows Melania in various professional settings. the 16 digital images show her on ...

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) said that former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, President-elect Trump's pick for national intelligence director, is "likely a Russian asset." "There's no question I consider her someone who is likely a Russian asset," Wasserman Schultz said on MSNBC on Friday. The Hill has contacted Gabbard's press team for comment. Wasserman Schultz's comment...

From the moment the US election results rolled in, climate leaders knew Donald Trump would be a blow to the COP29 talks in Baku. What they didn't foresee was the demolition job Azerbaijan's own leader would do from the inside.

Pete Hegseth, the Army National Guard veteran and Fox News host nominated by Donald Trump to lead the Department of Defense, was flagged as a possible "Insider Threat" by a fellow service member due to a tattoo on his bicep that's associated with white supremacist groups. Hegseth, who has downplayed the role of military members and veterans in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack and railed against the Pentagon's subsequent efforts to address extremism in the ranks, has said he was pulled by his District of Columbia National Guard unit from guarding Joe Biden's January 2021 inauguration.

House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) said Thursday that former Rep. Matt Gaetz's (R-Fla.) House Ethics Committee report "shouldn't go public," pushing back on pressure to release it after he was tapped to potentially serve as President-elect Trump's attorney general. "Well, it's my understanding that it's not supposed to go public. So, if it's...

The incoming Trump administration's plans to implement strict border measures, strike down Biden-era policies and kick off the detention and deportation of migrants at large scale are underway and starting to come into focus, according to four sources familiar with the plans.

A woman told the House Ethics Committee that she saw Matt Gaetz, who is President-elect Donald Trump's pick for the U.S. attorney general, have sex with a minor, her lawyer said Friday.

A foul-mouthed former Philippine president who jailed political rivals, insulted the pope and claims to have hired "death squad" gangsters is running for re-election in his hometown in a desperate bid to strengthen his scandal-hit political dynasty.

LONDON/VIENNA (Reuters) -Russia told Austria on Friday it will suspend gas deliveries via Ukraine on Saturday, in a development that signals a fast-approaching end of Moscow's last gas flows to Europe. Russia's oldest gas-export route to Europe, a pipeline dating back to Soviet days via Ukraine, is set to shut at the end of this year.

President-elect Donald Trump reached into his inner circle on Friday and chose his transition spokesperson, Karoline Leavitt, as his White House press secretary, putting a 27-year-old firebrand in position to aggressively defend him. Leavitt has endeared herself to Trump by her ardent defense of him in news interviews and her take-no-prisoners style, Trump advisers said. The job of the White House press secretary typically is to help inform the American people about presidential activities without betraying the confidence of the boss.

A far-right activist testifying against bills to ban guns from the Michigan Capitol in Lansing, which he claimed targeted white people, was gaveled down Thursday and dismissed after using the n-word. The individual in question identified himself as Avi Rachlin, while his sign-in card said he was representing "Groypers for America," referencing a far-right movement [...]

Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) signaled Thursday that he'd be willing to serve under President-elect Trump when he returns to the White House in January. "If there is a job that could help the country and that my skillset would be useful for. Anybody should consider that," Phillips told NewsNation's "On Balance." "And if we come...

Biden administration officials are working against the clock doling out billions in grants and taking other steps to try to preserve at least some of the outgoing president's legacy before President-elect Donald Trump takes office in January. "Let's make every day count," President Joe Biden said in an address to the nation last week after Vice President Kamala Harris conceded defeat to Trump in the presidential race. Trump has pledged to rescind unspent funds in Biden's landmark climate and health care law and stop clean-energy development projects.

Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party's prodigious fundraising operation raised more than $1 billion in her loss to Donald Trump, but the vice president is still pushing donors for more money after the election. Democrats are sending persistent appeals to Harris supporters without expressly asking them to cover any potential debts, enticing would-be donors instead with other matters: the Republican president-elect's picks for his upcoming administration and a handful of pending congressional contests where ballots are still being tallied. "The Harris campaign certainly spent more than they raised and is now busy trying to fundraise," said Adrian Hemond, a Democratic strategist from Michigan.

China's President Xi Jinping told his U.S. counterpart Joe Biden that the issues of Taiwan, democracy, human rights and rights to development are "red lines" for China and not to be challenged, the official state media Xinhua said on Sunday. Xi warned the United States not to get involved in bilateral disputes over islands and reefs in the South China Sea or "aid or abet the impulsion to make provocations" in that region, it said.

U.S. Muslim leaders who supported Republican Donald Trump to protest against the Biden administration's support for Israel's war on Gaza and attacks on Lebanon have been deeply disappointed by his cabinet picks, they tell Reuters. "Trump won because of us and we're not happy with his secretary of state pick and others," said Rabiul Chowdhury, a Philadelphia investor who chaired the Abandon Harris campaign in Pennsylvania and co-founded Muslims for Trump. Muslim support for Trump helped him win Michigan and may have factored into other swing state wins, strategists believe.

The "brain worm" story was told during divorce court, when RFK Jr. tried to argue that he couldn't actually earn that much.

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A senior Hamas official on Friday said the group is "ready for a ceasefire" in Gaza, urging US President-elect Donald Trump to "pressure" Israel as it continued to pound the Palestinian territory."Hamas is ready to reach a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip if a ceasefire proposal is presented and on the condition that it is respected" by Israel, Doha-based Hamas political bureau member Bassem Naim told AFP."We call on the US administration and Trump to pressure the Israeli government to end the aggre