Throughout his campaign, President-elect Donald Trump heaped scorn on the federal Department of Education, describing it as being infiltrated by "radicals, zealots and Marxists."
The Republican-dominated North Carolina legislature has completed its override of Gov. Roy Cooperβs veto of legislation that addresses both private school scholarship grants and immigration.
President-elect Donald Trumpβs pick for attorney general, Matt Gaetz, has launched an effort to personally secure his embattled nomination.
The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency told lawmakers Tuesday she has encouraged the agency's inspector general to review whether an employee was acting alone when directing workers helping hurricane victims not to go to homes with yards signs supporting President-elect Donald Trump.
President-electΒ Donald TrumpΒ on Tuesday tapped Dr. Mehmet Oz, a former television talk show host and heart surgeon, to head the agency that oversees health insurance programs for millions of older, poor and disabled Americans and selected Wall Street executive Howard Lutnick to lead the Commerce Department.
North Carolina GOP lawmakers are one step closer to rolling out their legislative-session priorities into law before the year's end after the state House opted to override one of Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper's vetoes on Tuesday.
Ukraine fired six American-supplied longer-range missiles at Russiaβs Bryansk region, Moscow said Tuesday, in what would be Kyiv's first use of the weapons inside Russia inΒ 1,000 days of war.
A recently fired Mecklenburg County Sheriff's Office employee claims Sheriff Garry McFadden wanted her to change travel expense documents.
Young voters swung toward President-elect Donald Trump in this yearβs election, but according to AP VoteCast, theyβre not the staunchly conservative base that heβs relied on in the past.
President-elect Donald Trump has a vision for education that revolves around a single goal: to rid Americaβs schools of perceived βwokenessβ and βleft-wing indoctrination.β
Republicans have won enough seats to control the U.S. House, completing the partyβs sweep into power and securing their hold on U.S. government alongside President-electΒ Donald Trump.
President-elect Donald Trump says he will nominate Republican Matt Gaetz of Florida to serve as his attorney general, putting a loyalist in the role of the nationβs top prosecutor.
Sen. John Thune has won an internal election among Republican senators to become the chamberβs next majority leader. It makes the South Dakota Republican a key partner on Capitol Hill to President-elect Donald Trump.
Donald TrumpΒ made a victorβs return to Washington on Wednesday, visiting the White House for an Oval Office meeting with Democratic President Joe Biden and committing to a smooth transition of power as the Republican president-elect moves quickly to build out his new administration.
Inflation in the United States ticked up in October, driven by costlier rents, used cars, and air fares, a sign that price increases might be leveling off after having slowed in September to their lowest pace since 2021.
President-elect Donald Trump is making a victorβs return to Washington. The president-elect's plane landed Wednesday morning at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland.
A new Louisiana requirement that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public classroom by Jan. 1 has been temporarily blocked. A federal judge says the law is βunconstitutional on its face.β
The Supreme Court has refused to let former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows move the election interference case against him in Georgia to federal court, where he would have argued he was immune from prosecution.
A judge is postponing a key ruling in President-elect Donald Trumpβs hush money case as his lawyers argued for dismissing it so he can run the country.
House Speaker Mike Johnson says Republicans won't make the mistakes of the first term and will be more prepared for a second-term Trump White House.
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