Robert Kennedy, Jr., nominee to be Secretary of Health and Human Services, arrives for his meeting with Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., in the Hart Senate Office Building on Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024.
Trump, signaling he would soon usher in a more forceful tone as diplomat in chief toward friends and foes alike, suggested he would offer more constructive criticism to Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The City Council approved a plan to build 81 "wise size" homes in northwest Lincoln and got assurances from the health department that a rooster on adjacent land can remain.
Announcing a new round of appointments to the Chicago Board of Education Monday, Mayor Brandon Johnson named Sean Harden as the new president of the 21-member body to be seated in January.
A judge has refused to dismiss President-elect Donald Trump’s hush money conviction because of the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling on presidential immunity.
President-elect Donald Trump's lawyers urged a judge again Friday to throw out his hush money conviction, balking at the prosecution's suggestion of preserving the verdict.
Senate Republicans under incoming leader John Thune, seen in the Capitol last month, are planning as much as $85 billion for border security as part of an initial bill for budget reconciliation. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Kash Patel, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to be director of the FBI, leaves a meeting Monday with Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, in the Hart building.
With the state's new legislative session slated to get under way on Jan. 8, Democrats currently have to vacancy seats to fill in Senate Districts 29 and 31. Respective vacancy committees have scheduled elections to be held in early January.
The leadership of the House and Senate Democratic caucuses announced the creation of two new committees for the 2025 legislative session, as well as the chairs of the more than two dozen joint committees in the General Assembly.
Among those targeted was New York Rep. Elise Stefanik, Trump's pick to serve as the next UN ambassador. A family member of Matt Gaetz also received a bomb threat.
No one knows quite what to do with Thanksgiving since most of what we think of as “tradition” is bogus, former Historic Jamestowne interpreter Karla K. Bruno writes in a guest column.
President-elect Donald Trump is filling key posts in his second administration, and it's shaping up much differently than his first. He's prioritizing loyalists for top jobs.
Pete Hegseth will see to it that generals stick to what they are supposed to do, and that is to protect the homeland and not play progressive politics.
MIAMI — As a member of the Miami-Dade Democratic Executive Committee, Miami Gardens resident SarDeborah Wright knew months before Election Day that she would be voting for Kamala Harris for president. But Wright, 67, had also grown frustrated with the way the national party ran its operations in Florida this election cycle, saying she believes it wasted time trying to persuade Hispanic ...
Matt Gaetz has withdrawn from consideration as attorney general and was replaced by Pam Bondi, as Trump plans to make RFK Jr. his secretary of health and human services and Pete Hegseth his defense secretary, while placing Tulsi Gabbard, Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller in other key posts.
Matt Gaetz has withdrawn from consideration as attorney general and was replaced by Pam Bondi, as Trump plans to make RFK Jr. his secretary of health and human services and Pete Hegseth his defense secretary, while placing Tulsi Gabbard, Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller in other key posts.
Photographer John Collier, Jr., spent one day in Amsterdam but his pictures provided a lasting portrait of a specific mill town just two months before the nation was thrust into World War II.
Trained as a heart surgeon, Oz rose to prominence on Oprah Winfrey’s leading daytime television show before spinning off his own series, “The Dr. Oz Show,” in 2009.
As President-elect Donald Trump digs in on his pick of Matt Gaetz for attorney general, Republican senators are divided over how much information they will demand to move his confirmation — and how much to push back on Trump as he demands that they qui...
Trump is expected to make Matt Gaetz his attorney general and Marco Rubio his secretary of state, and place Tulsi Gabbard, Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller in key posts.
As in London during World War II, the aerial warfare of contemporary conflicts reflects ‘The Return of Total War’ and its devastating toll on children.
From time to time in the 1930s and 1940s Amsterdam Mayor Arthur Carter would get in a police car for a trip to Washington, D.C., to visit President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Trump is expected to make Matt Gaetz his attorney general and Marco Rubio his secretary of state, and place Tulsi Gabbard, Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller in key posts.
