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It's fitting that President-elect Donald Trump attended an Ultimate Fighting Championship event last weekend. For his cabinet so far, he has tapped a pair of nominees ready to mix it up in grudge ...

So far Trump has looked elsewhere for his earliest cabinet and high-level staff appointments, in some cases passing over ...

Republicans complain nominees weren't "properly vetted," but don't get that accusations are a feature, not a bug ...

Senate Republicans are rejecting a proposal floated by some advisers to President-elect Trump to take the job of conducting ...

Sen. Kevin Cramer made the remarks during a CNN interview on Monday, a week after Gaetz was nominated by President-elect ...

On Nov. 19, 1998, impeachment hearings against President Bill Clinton were initiated by the United States House of ...

The House Ethics Committee is expected to meet Wednesday to discuss whether its ethics report on former Rep. Matt Gaetz, ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with ranking member of the House intelligence committee Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn., about president-elect Donald Trump's national security appointments.

Mr Rubio must resign if the Senate confirms him as Mr Trump’s secretary of state. Mr DeSantis, who will pick the senator’s ...

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) delivered a Senate floor speech on Monday denouncing Rep. Matt Gaetz, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Attorney General, and said he'll do everything in his power to ...