Politics

President-elect Donald Trump on Friday named Karoline Leavitt, his campaign press secretary, to serve as his White House press secretary. Leavitt, 27, currently a spokesperson for Trump’s transition, would be the youngest White House press secretary in history. Previously that distinction went to Ronald Ziegler, who was 29 when he took the po...

Democratic Rep. Jared Golden won reelection to Congress through Maine’s ranked choice system on Friday. It’s the third time in four elections in the hotly contested district that Golden won after votes were retabulated because first choices failed to produce a majority for any candidate. This time it was Republican challenger Austin The...

Matt Gaetz is president-elect Donald Trump’s choice to become U.S. attorney general.

Iran sent a written message via Swiss diplomats in mid-October saying that it would not seek to kill Donald Trump, a U.S. official told NBC News.

A federal judge in Texas has blocked a new rule from the Biden administration that would have expanded access to overtime pay to millions more salaried workers across the U.S.

Kennedy is Trump’s pick for health secretary, but he has a history of spreading misinformation about a range of issues.

They lost limbs in battle, led security convoys and survived several combat tours.

Republican Sen. Susan Collins is planning to run for a sixth term in two years, NBC affiliate News Center Maine reported. The senator made the announcement of her 2026 campaign at a stop Friday in Vassalboro. Collins has been in office since 1997 and has staked out a moderate position in the Republican Party. Earlier this week, she voiced skepticis...

Some caution that putting South Carolina to the back of the line-up could alienate Black voters.

Former Rep. Matt Gaetz, the Florida Republican who Donald Trump wants to be the next attorney general of the United States, has spread lies about the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and championed the cause of Jan. 6 defendants whose cases he would oversee if confirmed to the job.

With President-elect Donald Trump announcing Matt Gaetz as his pick to be attorney general and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary, political analyst Sue O’Connell reviews previous presidents’ controversial Cabinet choices. Plus, what will become of the House Ethics Committee’s report on Gaetz? 

Hegseth, a former Fox News host, was not charged with a crime in connection with the reported 2017 incident.

Johnson said that it would be a “terrible breach of protocol” if the committee released the report on Gaetz, who resigned from the House this week.