Politics

President-elect Donald Trump says he plans to appoint Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. Kennedy has spent years touting anti-vaccine conspiracies and other debunked medical claims. News4’s Aimee Cho spoke with a public health expert about what his appointment could mean.

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.

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.

The “Department of Government Efficiency” won’t be a real government agency. In fact, it won’t even be part of the federal government.

Republicans ended up flipping, maintaining control of, or expanding their majority in nearly all of the state legislative chambers across the country where partisan control was up for grabs on Election Day.

Donald Trump has met at his Mar-a-Lago club with Argentine President Javier Milei, the first foreign leader to meet with the president-elect since his victory in last week’s election.

President-elect Donald Trump promised mass deportations during his campaign, and sources familiar with the plan tell NBC News the incoming administration is already making plans. News4’s Walter Morris reports.

The head of the D.C. Public Health Association raised concerns about maternal mortality, diabetes and hypertension after anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was tapped to lead the nation’s health department. News4’s Jackie Bensen reports.

Burgum ran for president in the 2024 election cycle.

The president-elect said he’d chosen Todd Blanche, who represented him in his criminal trial this year, for the No. 2 job at the Justice Department.

Leander Antwione Williams, a linebacker who played with the Lions in the 2016 season, is charged with two felonies in connection with the attack on the Capitol in 2021.