"MAGA Santa": Ameshia Cross on how Trump plans to deliver on his promises of retribution

Donald Trump is following through on his promises to exact retribution on his enemies. His controversial picks for cabinet positions prove how far he's willing to go. MSNBC's Jonathan Capehart outlines the risks with his Sound Off panel.

The Weekend Update desk at "Saturday Night Live" devoted its opening to hocking some loogies at Donald Trump's picks to lead his presidential administration. That list includes billionaire Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, who has been tapped by Trump to lead the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency taskforce, which aims to ...

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 ...

CNN's Jake Tapper took his interview with Mike Johnson to a personal level as he quizzed the Republican House Speaker on how his support for President-elect Donald Trump's controversial Cabinet nominations squared with his Christian family values. Johnson has been asked by several Republican congressmen and senators to release the details in a House Ethics Committee investigation into allegations that Matt Gaetz, who is Trump's pick for Attorney General, had sex with a 17-year-old. In an intervi

The Trump transition team is compiling a list of senior current and former U.S. military officers who were directly involved in the withdrawal from Afghanistan and exploring whether they could be court-martialed for their involvement, according to a U.S. official and a person familiar with the plan.

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) said Sunday that his "bias would be to vote for the people that President Trump wants" for the upcoming administration. "My bias would be to vote for the people that President Trump wants to serve [by in his] administration," Johnson told NewsNation's Chris Stirewalt on "The Hill Sunday." "Again, as a...

For their first "Weekend Update" segment after the recent string of controversial cabinet announcements from Donald Trump, co-anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che did not hold back. "This week, Donald Trump continued to announce everyone he's going to fire in six months," Jost said, adding, "On Wednesday, Trump nominated Matt Gaetz for attorney general. And Gaetz said the same thing he does when he sees a teenage girl: I'll do it." The joke comes after Gaetz's sudden resignation from Congress, whi

If Kennedy is even halfway successful in his quest to save the American people from the life-robbing threats of ultra-processed foods and toxic chemicals, he can potentially save or improve tens of millions of lives over the next four years.

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.

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.

Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, will not attend the upcoming G20 summit in Brazil, a well-informed Saudi source told dpa, though no explanation was provided. However, the heir apparent is set to attend an annual Gulf summit in Kuwait on December 1 and will host French President Emmanuel Macron, who is scheduled to visit Saudi Arabia starting December 2, the source added, requesting anonymity. The source also declined to address reports that the 39-year-old royal

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia's war in Ukraine will end "faster" when Donald Trump takes over as US president. National security analyst Beth Sanner says Zelensky is signaling to the incoming president that he is willing to go to the negotiating table.

Vice President Kamala Harris campaign, which spent $100 million per week during her condensed run for the presidency, is still flooding supporter's inboxes with requests for cash. That's led to heightened scrutiny about how the campaign spent its record war chest and still ended up no match for President-elect Donald Trump's MAGA roadshow. Among the eye-popping expenses was a $1 million paid to Oprah Winfrey's production firm, Harpo Productions, for a town hall event she television star hosted w

Nuclear-armed India has tested its first hypersonic missile, the defence minister said Sunday, publicising the super-fast high-tech weapon days after rival China showcased its latest military aviation powers.The test flight comes days after rival and neighbour China showcased its expanding aviation capabilities at an airshow, with the J-35A stealth fighter jet and attack drones displayed.

For more than a year, the United States has steadfastly backed Israel in its Gaza war while quietly counseling restraint.They ultimately decided not to take action, despite Israel not meeting metrics on the number of aid trucks and a new UN-backed assessment warning of imminent famine in Gaza.

The fight over a key position in Donald Trump's Cabinet is heating up, as business leaders, billionaires, and Wall Street executives are all pushing the president-elect to choose their preferred candidates to lead the Department of the Treasury. Hedge fund manager Scott Bessent and Howard Lutnick, the CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, emerged over the weekend as two of the leading candidates for Treasury Secretary—an important economic position that will play a critical role in the president-elect's pla

Mayor Brandon Johnson reversed course Saturday and announced he will not attend a slain cop's funeral after the officer's family told him to stay away. Johnson's office had said Friday he would go to the funeral for Officer Enrique Martinez, despite protests from the police union president who said he would not be welcome. Martinez was shot and killed Monday during a traffic stop in Chatham. ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is giving Donald Trump's diet a chance. The health nut, who has been tapped by Trump to run the Department of Health and Human Services, was photographed aboard the president-elect's plane sharing McDonald's and Coca-Cola with Trump, Elon Musk, House Speaker Mike Johnson and Donald Trump Jr. Sunday. "POV: walking by the cool kids table," Trump's deputy director of communications for his campaign, Margo Martin, wrote on X alongside the photo of the entourage, who traveled to

Donald Trump Jr. said Sunday that the team now around the president-elect knows how to choose a Cabinet and build out an administration, unlike the time before his father first took office. Any pushback that Donald Trump's unconventional choices face from the Washington establishment proves that they are just the kind of disruptors the new administration and voters are demanding, the younger Trump said. After Donald Trump was elected in 2016, he stocked his early administration with choices from traditional Republican and business circles, tapping figures such as former Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson, who was his first as secretary of state.