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By Jack Phillips Contributing Writer Former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who backed President-elect Donald Trump, said Wednesday that the Food and Drug Administration bureaucracy should be winnowed down. Before [...]The post After Trump win, RFK Jr. says ‘entire departments’ at FDA ’have to go’ appeared first on Santa Clarita Valley Signal.

Before he comes back for good on Inauguration Day, Donald Trump will return to the White House briefly at the invitation of Democratic President Joe Biden, who had hoped to defeat his Republican predecessor a second time and reside there for four more years.

Trump urged Senate Republican leadership candidates to allow appointees to be chosen while Congress is out of session and serve for up to two years without Senate confirmation.

Trump is expected to announce his former immigration adviser Stephen Miller will serve as White House deputy chief of staff for policy, and former lawmaker Lee Zeldin will lead the EPA.

As Senate Republicans prepare to vote Wednesday on a new majority leader, Trump is already weighing in with demands for recess appointments.

Trump is expected to announce his former immigration adviser Stephen Miller will serve as White House deputy chief of staff for policy.

Donald Trump said over the weekend that he wants the Senate to allow him to make recess appointments, a constitutional provision that allows a president to circumvent the Senate's advice and consent function to install his choices without a Senate vote. “Any Republican Senator seeking the coveted LEADERSHIP position in the United States Senate must agree to Recess Appointments (in the Senate!), without which we will not be able to get people confirmed in a timely manner,” Trump wrote in a post on X. “Sometimes the votes can take two years, or more. This is what they did four years ago, and we cannot let it happen again. We need positions filled IMMEDIATELY!” Trump shouldn't need to do recess appointments.

A record 13 women will serve as governor next year after the election of New Hampshire Republican Kelly Ayotte, breaking the record set in 2023.

In just over 70 days, Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States will become the 47th, and he'll begin implementing his vision of an all powerful chief executive.For sponsor-free episodes of Consider This, sign up for Consider This+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org. Email us at [email protected].

President Joe Biden urged Americans to "bring down the temperature" on Thursday following Republican Donald Trump's election victory and sought to console fellow Democrats who were alarmed by the former president's stunning comeback.

President-elect Trump will appoint Cabinet members to serve alongside him over the next four years, and several candidates are being floated for the top positions.

Here's everything to know about presidential term limits after President-elect Donald Trump won the 2024 election.

Donald Trump is preparing to hire a new round of people to help him run the country. With Trump’s track record of never-ending chaos and disorder, they may want to keep their resumes handy.Trump is reportedly considering a team of loyalists, the people who will tell him he’s never wrong when he suggests policies like injecting bleach to fight off COVID-19 and launching nuclear weapons at hurricanes.Among the names in circulation are former ambassador and social media troll Richard Grenell heading the State Department; apostrophe investigator Rep. Elise Stefanik as U.N. ambassador; Taliban meeting coordinator Mike Pompeo as secretary of defense; and anti-vaccine crackpot Robert F. Kennedy Jr. running the Department of Health.

It’s not doomsday — but the billionaires have won and their supporters will suffer

Republicans have at least a 52-seat Senate majority and are looking to expand it to 54 seats, as GOP candidates are leading the vote counts in Pennsylvania and Nevada. Such a cushion would strengthen Donald Trump's hand as he fills a Cabinet and other executive and judicial branch positions. A narrower Senate GOP majority would have put [...]

He made reference to a September ruling from a judge that ordered the EPA to address fluoridation concerns.

Fluoride in drinking water has long been considered one of the greatest public health achievements of the last century.

Election Day will have a different look and feel this year for Heather Fuller.

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RFK Jr. dropped his presidential campaign earlier this year to endorse Trump, whom he had previously criticized.

Whether one is supportive of former President Trump, one shouldn’t be confused about whether his storing of highly classified information at Mar-a-Lago was wrong. It was, on several levels.

Polling shows the presidential election at a near dead heat. In New Hampshire, that jump ball scenario also applies to the governor’s race, which means the outcomes in both contests could hinge on voters who choose to go with one party for president,...

Francis Ford Coppola will receive the 50th AFI Life Achievement Award, the American Film Institute announced Tuesday.

Almost four years after a mob stormed the U.S. Capitol, political violence remains a threat heading into another election. But the nature of the danger has changed.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presence on the ballot in the swing states of Michigan and Wisconsin is raising concerns that he could inadvertently draw crucial votes from former President Trump. Kennedy, an environmental lawyer and former independent candidate, this week formally asked the Supreme Court to scrub his name from the Badger State ballot, his [...]

WASHINGTON — While California may be solidly Democratic in presidential contests, a handful of competitive races in the state could determine whether Republicans keep control of the U.S. House. Voters also will cast ballots in a U.S. Senate contest and 10 statewide propositions, in addition to the presidency and the state Legislature. At the top [...]The post What to Expect in California on Election Day appeared first on GV Wire.

While California may be solidly Democratic in presidential contests, a handful of competitive races in November could determine whether Republicans keep control of the U.S. House

Maryland voters will decide a competitive race for U.S. Senate on Election Day, a rarity for the left-leaning state

Trump's assessment? “It requires great expertise, actually, to do it right and to do it fast.”

Kamala Harris caused a big controversy by refusing to attend an annual Catholic fundraiser. The last Democrat to make that mistake was Walter Mondale and that was 40 years ago.

We don't know the winner — the prudent won't guess, many of the imprudent will be wrong — but already we know that the 2024 election will mark a significant departure in American history. Even if Donald Trump wins, it...

Following up on last week’s column, “Why Trump — Part One” (Globe, Oct. 12), some thoughts today on the policy and character differences between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.

The Catholic-sponsored event known as the 'Al Smith Dinner' raised nearly $10 million for charitable works, organizers say.

Letter: As an Allentown voter, I have received numerous mailings regarding the ballot question on raising the city’s transfer tax. I have come down on the side of support for the increased transfer tax.

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Trump laced into Vice President Kamala Harris and other Democrats in a pointed and at times bitter speech as he headlined the annual Al Smith charity dinner in New York.

Former President Trump will headline the Al Smith Catholic charity dinner in New York on Thursday, after VP Harris snubbed the event and will send a video message instead.

Vice President Kamala Harris will virtually attend the Al Smith Catholic charity dinner in a pre-recorded message, the Archdiocese of New York confirmed to Fox Digital.

An independent panel probing the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, found "deeper systemic issues that must be addressed with urgency."

The battle for the Senate majority has hit its final month as Republicans race to end their four-year stint in the minority. The GOP needs to win only one of two competitive races in red states — Montana and Ohio — to do just that. According to Decision Desk HQ and The Hill, Republicans have [...]

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Media hype about celebrity opinions is as old as some of those doing it. Yet from now till Election Day, news will be filled with brave stars sharing their support for Harris and more.

Monday marks the fourth anniversary of the biggest lie the Biden-Harris administration told: that Mr. Hunter Biden’s laptop was not real.

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Ethel Kennedy endured the assassination of her husband and emerged as a senior figure in the presidential family

The dip has forced Trump to rely more on wealthy donors and groups backed by them, a shift that cuts into the populist message that first propelled him to the White House.

After RFK was assassinated in 1968, she raised their 11 children and remained dedicated to social causes and the family’s legacy for decades thereafter.

WASHINGTON -- Ethel Kennedy, a long-time human rights advocate who endured a series of tragedies that included the assassination of her husband, Robert F. Kennedy, and the untimely deaths of two of their 11 children, died on Thursday at the...

Vice presidents matter.

The U.S. senator from Skowhegan, perhaps best known for standing up to Joseph McCarthy in 1950, was the first woman to have her name placed in nomination at a major party convention.