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Trump plans to ‘close' the Department of Education. What does this mean?
Kirabo Jackson, professor of education and social policy at Northwestern University and former economic advisor to President Biden, discusses how education policy in the U.S. may shift under the new Trump administration.
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Local Washington officials brace for four years of playing defense against Trump
Donald Trump’s first stint in the White House proved to be a chaotic ride for the nation’s capital. Now with Trump set to return to power, backed by a Republican-controlled Congress and the momentum of a sweeping electoral win, local officials in Washington are trying to sound conciliatory while preparing for the worst. Mayor Muriel Bowser says D.C. officials have...
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Ramaswamy's ‘jackhammer and chain saw' plan to force federal workers back into the office
Eighteen months after the pandemic ended, nearly two-thirds of the country’s 2.2 million federal workers are still approved to work from home.
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What are recess appointments and why is Trump considering using them?
A recess appointment takes place when a president bypasses the Senate to confirm cabinet nominees when both the House and Senate are not in session for at least 10 days.
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Speaker Mike Johnson leaves the door open to recess appointments
The House speaker Johnson told “Fox News Sunday” that “we’ll have to see how this develops” when asked whether he’d let Trump bypass the usual Senate confirmation process.
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Trump returns to Madison Square Garden for UFC event after naming energy secretary
President-elect Donald Trump walked out to a roaring standing ovation just ahead of the start of the UFC pay-per-view card at Madison Square Garden on Saturday night, combining two things close to his heart: fierce battles inside the octagon and New York City.
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Loudoun County District 32 vote in ‘firehouse primary' ahead of special election
Voters in Loudoun County’s District 32 are preparing for a special election to fill a state senate seat vacated by Suhas Subramanyam, who won a congressional race, with a firehouse primary. News4’s Derrick Ward reports.
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Loudoun County holds special election to fill Subramanyam's seat
Del. Suhas Subramanyam was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, leaving his seat in the Virginia state legislature empty.
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Democratic jockeying for the 2028 presidential election is already underway
Nearly two dozen Democrats are seen as possible contenders ahead of an invisible primary that will be shaped partly by Trump and his second term.
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Trump names Karoline Leavitt as youngest ever White House press secretary
Leavitt, 27, currently a spokesperson for Trump’s transition, would be the youngest White House press secretary in history.
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Matt Gaetz, Trump's pick to oversee Jan. 6 cases, backed rioters and spread conspiracy theories
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.
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Pete Hegseth, Trump's pick for defense secretary, faced sex assault allegation
Hegseth, a former Fox News host, was not charged with a crime in connection with the reported 2017 incident.
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Will Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy's new ‘department' actually be able to do anything?
The “Department of Government Efficiency” won’t be a real government agency. In fact, it won’t even be part of the federal government.
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5 things to know about Steven Cheung
Here are five things to know about Steven Cheung.
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5 things to know about Sergio Gor
Here are five things to know about Sergio Gor, assistant to President-elect Donald Trump and Director of the Presidential Personnel Office during the Trump administration’s second term.
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Republicans made substantial gains in state legislative battlegrounds
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.
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Trump to nominate his criminal defense lawyer for deputy attorney general
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.
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Trump chooses former Rep. Doug Collins to run Veterans Affairs
Doug Collins, a former congressman from Georgia, is President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to run the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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Elon Musk's new ‘department' seeks ‘super high-IQ' staff for unpaid jobs
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s new commission to slash government spending began soliciting applications for staff jobs Thursday, saying it wants to hire “revolutionaries” who score highly on IQ tests.
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Trump picks RFK Jr., anti-vaccine activist, for Health and Human Services secretary
President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday has nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an anti-vaccine activist who dropped out of the 2024 presidential race and endorsed Trump, to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.