In selecting Representative Matt Gaetz to be his attorney general, President-elect Donald J. Trump has chosen an undisguised ...

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For three of the nation’s highest-ranking and most vital positions, Mr. Trump said he would appoint loyalists with no ...

We’ll see how he reacts to it as he goes in because that’s what happened last time.” There’s no telling how the White House ...

President-elect Donald Trump met briefly with President Biden in the Oval Office yesterday in a triumphant return to the ...