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Whitaker first took over the Justice Department on an acting basis during Trump’s first term in office in Nov. 2018, right after the midterm elections, when Trump announced on Twitter that Whitaker would be succeeding Jeff Sessions, whom Trump asked to resign.

Millions of student loan borrowers have had their debt forgiven under the Biden administration. Could President-elect Donald Trump claw back that relief?

Letting the conviction stand would threaten to “hamstring the operation of the whole governmental apparatus,” lawyers Todd Blanche and Emil Bove argued in a letter to the judge.

Linda McMahon founded World Wrestling Entertainment with her husband, Vince, and she has twice ran for U.S. Senate. Here’s more to know.

A Democrat said he would force a vote on releasing the report as Gaetz, Trump’s pick for attorney general, met with senators and Vice President-elect JD Vance on Wednesday.

Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs will dent U.S. economic growth going into 2026, said Morgan Stanley’s chief global economist Seth Carpenter.

President-elect Donald Trump is nominating the billionaire professional wrestling mogul Linda McMahon to be secretary of the Education Department, tasked with overseeing an agency Trump has promised to dismantle.

President-elect Donald Trump has been making calls to bolster his pick to lead the Justice Department — Matt Gaetz — who is already facing skepticism from some Republican senators, according to sources familiar with his push.

Dubbing persistent debt the “original sin” saddling public transportation, a watchdog group called on Beacon Hill to make debt relief a central part of the next MBTA financial rescue plan. The MBTA Advisory Board, an independent group that represents Massachusetts cities and towns that help fund the T, took a deep dive through the histo...

President-elect Donald Trump says he is nominating Dr. Mehmet Oz, who hosted a long-running television talk show, to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

The file that was hacked Monday included the testimony of the woman who alleges she had sex with Gaetz when she was 17 in 2017, and the testimony of a second woman who said she witnessed the encounter, a source told NBC News.

President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday he has chosen a key transition adviser and billionaire financial services executive, Howard Lutnick, to lead the Commerce Department.

Donald Trump’s sentencing is in limbo with his hush money case in New York possibly set to be tossed.