Belligerent subjects. Family members held captive by circumstance. A tense situation that at any moment could escalate into something worse. For crisis negotiator Scott Walker, it’s a living. But it could also be your Thanksgiving.

A senior official in President Joe Biden’s administration who oversaw its contentious efforts to address climate change by curbing oil exploration on federal lands has been named the next president of a prominent environmental group.

The leaders of Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign say they simply didn’t have enough time to execute a winning strategy against Donald Trump.

If Donald Trump makes good on his threat to slap 25% tariffs on everything imported from Mexico and Canada, the price increases that could follow will collide with his campaign promise to give American families a break from inflation.

In an angry outburst in a New York courtroom, Rudy Giuliani has accused a judge of making wrong assumptions about him after ordering him to turn over most of his assets to two election poll workers who won a libel case against him.

President-elect Donald Trump will return to power next year with a raft of technological tools at his disposal that would help deliver his campaign promise of cracking down on immigration — among them, surveillance and artificial intelligence technology that the Biden administration already uses to help make crucial decisions in tracking, detaining and ultimately deporting immigrants lacking permanent legal status.

President-elect Donald Trump has identified what he sees as an all-purpose fix for what ails America: Slap huge new tariffs on foreign goods entering the United States.

Republican Donald Trump’s support has grown broadly since he last sought the presidency.

Donald Trump is coming back to the White House, but don't expect another “Fire and Fury,” or much fire and fury in book publishing in general.

The top lawyer on Donald Trump’s transition team has investigated a longtime adviser to the president-elect over allegations he used his proximity to Trump to score payments from those seeking roles or influence in the new administration.

Warnings have been popping up on social media urging women who might be considering divorce to “pull the trigger” while they still can ever since President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance won the election.

Top officials in Arizona have certified the state’s election results.

A former Brevard County congressman and doctor is President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Centers for Disease Control. Dr. Dave Weldon was nominated by Trump late Friday.

A Missouri court on Monday upheld a new state law that bans some gender-affirming health care for minors, a victory for supporters of the ban as the Supreme Court prepares to hear a case on the issue next week.

Lawyers for a voting machine company that's suing Fox News want to question Rupert Murdoch about his contentious efforts to change his family trust.

An April 1 date has been set for a special election to fill the congressional seat that Rep. Mike Waltz is leaving.

President-elect Donald Trump vigorously campaigned against diversity and inclusion efforts in business and government.

The Biden administration plans on reducing part of Intel’s $8.5 billion in federal funding for computer chip plants around the country, according to three people familiar with the grant who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations.

There’s no place like home for the holidays.

The chair of the Democratic National Committee has informed party leaders that the organization will elect his successor just days after Donald Trump is inaugurated.

Federal prosecutors have moved to abandon two criminal cases against Donald Trump, acknowledging that Trump’s return to the White House will preclude attempts to federally prosecute him for retaining classified documents or trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat.

Donald Trump Jr. has become a prominent player in his father’s political orbit and the Make America Great Again movement.

The reaction of those who defended “Morning Joe” hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski for meeting with President-elect Trump sounds almost quaint in the days of opinionated journalism.

California could offer state tax rebates for electric vehicle purchases if the incoming Trump administration eliminates the $7,500 federal EV tax credit.

The withdrawal of Matt Gaetz as President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general serves as a reminder that the Senate is still relevant when it comes to installing a president’s Cabinet.

Donald Trump’s personnel choices for his new Cabinet and White House reflect his signature positions on immigration and trade but also a range of viewpoints and backgrounds that raise questions about what ideological anchors might guide his Oval Office encore.

Republican lawmakers are pushing back against criticism from some Democrats that President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead U.S. intelligence services is “compromised” by her comments supportive of Russia and a meeting with an ally of that country.

Donald Trump's victory has dismayed many politically engaged Black women, and they're reassessing their enthusiasm for politics and organizing.

Donald Trump has big plans for the economy.

President-elect Donald Trump has selected former White House aide Brooke Rollins to lead the Department of Agriculture.

During the campaign, President-elect Donald Trump had hailed what would become Project 2025 as a conservative roadmap for “exactly what our movement will do."

Working-class voters helped Republicans make steady election gains this year and expanded a coalition that increasingly includes rank-and-file union members.

President-elect Donald Trump says he will nominate former White House aide Brooke Rollins to be his agriculture secretary.

Donald Trump's health team picks include a retired congressman, a surgeon and a former talk-show host.

President-elect Donald Trump has selected Scott Turner to lead the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Democrats’ crushing loss in Montana’s nationally important U.S. Senate race settled a fierce political debate over whether a surge of newcomers in the past decade favored Republicans.

Election reform advocates had hoped for a big year at the ballot box.

President-elect Donald Trump launched a blitz of picks for his Cabinet, but he took his time settling on billionaire investor Scott Bessent as his choice for treasury secretary.

President-elect Donald Trump has named Oregon Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer to lead the Department of Labor, elevating a Republican congresswoman who has strong support from unions in her district but lost reelection in November.

President-elect Donald Trump has nominated a critic of COVID-19 health measures to lead the Food and Drug Administration.

President-elect Donald Trump has chosen money manager Scott Bessent, an advocate for deficit reduction and deregulation, to serve as his next treasury secretary.

President-elect Donald Trump has chosen hedge fund manager Scott Bessent, an advocate for deficit reduction, to serve as his next treasury secretary.

CareerSource Central Florida returned $1.9 million to the Orange County government Thursday, ending a deal the agency made with the county supervisor of elections that has sparked a fight between the elections office and the county commission over surplus budget money.

Attorneys for Fox Corp. are asking a Delaware judge to dismiss a lawsuit seeking to hold current and former company officials personally liable for the financial fallout from Fox News reports regarding alleged vote rigging in the 2020 election.

Louisiana’s GOP-dominated legislature passed tax cuts on personal and corporate income on Friday in exchange for a statewide sales tax increase.

Matt Gaetz is not coming back to Congress.

After several weeks working behind closed doors, Vice President-elect JD Vance returned to Capitol Hill this week in a new, more visible role.

Donald Trump assigned Doug Burgum a singular mission in nominating the governor of oil-rich North Dakota to lead an agency that oversees a half-billion acres of federal land and vast areas offshore: “Drill baby drill.”.

Democratic U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur’s Trump-endorsed rival said he called the veteran Ohio congresswoman to concede defeat in the 2024 election.

A judge has confirmed that President-elect Donald Trump won’t be sentenced this month in his hush money case.

The Supreme Court is allowing a multibillion-dollar class action investors’ lawsuit to proceed against Facebook parent Meta stemming from the privacy scandal involving the Cambridge Analytica political consulting firm.

Donald Trump’s lock on the white evangelical vote is legendary, but he didn't focus exclusively on large religious voter blocs.

Voters in central Mississippi and the Delta and Gulf Coast areas will return to the polls Tuesday for a runoff election to resolve two state judicial races in which no candidate received the required vote majority in the Nov. 5 general election.

JD Vance’s election as vice president has opened up one of Ohio’s U.S. Senate seats for the third time in as many years.

Losing a Cabinet nominee to the confirmation process isn’t unheard of for incoming presidents — including for Donald Trump when he was elected the first time.

Pam Bondi, the former Florida attorney general, is Donald Trump’s new pick to serve as U.S. attorney general.

Trump says he will nominate former Florida AG Pam Bondi to be US Attorney General after first pick, Matt Gaetz, withdrew.

The Senate won’t hold votes on four of President Joe Biden’s appellate court nominees as part of a deal with Republicans to allow for speedier consideration of other judicial nominations.

Sen. Mitch McConnell says he will lead a subcommittee overseeing defense spending as he carves out new roles once he relinquishes his long-running post as Senate Republican leader.

Democratic Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania is conceding his reelection bid to Republican David McCormick.

The North Carolina State Board of Elections’ top administrator wants a powerful legislator to retract a comment that he made suggesting this month’s results were being manipulated.

President-elect Donald Trump has tried to act with impunity while staffing his new administration, choosing loyalists who often lack expertise or sometimes face sexual misconduct allegations.

Kelli Marks says dealing with flooding will be the first priority as Orange City's first female mayor. But she has other ideas too.

President-elect Donald Trump’s allies on Capitol Hill are rallying around Pete Hegseth, Trump’s Pentagon pick.

President-elect Donald Trump’s team still hasn’t signed the agreements required to begin the transition process to the White House.

Mississippi's practice of removing voting rights for certain felonies is cruel and unusual.

Former congressman Matt Gaetz has withdrawn his name as President-elect Donald Trump's choice for attorney general in the face of sexual misconduct allegations.

President-elect Donald Trump has named Pam Bondi, the former attorney general of Florida, to be U.S. attorney general just hours after his other choice, Matt Gaetz, withdrew his name.

Donald Trump has put Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy in charge of finding ways to cut government spending and regulations.

The U.S. House passed legislation that would give the Treasury Department unilateral authority to strip the tax-exempt status of nonprofits it claims support terrorism.

Did stand-up comedians help reelect Donald Trump.

The leaders of the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security have declined to testify publicly at a scheduled Senate hearing on global national security threats.

The total number of women who are state lawmakers has once again reached new heights, following a trend up in recent years.

Earlier this year, the Florida Legislature approved a bill to address the issue. But just a few short days after it hit his desk, DeSantis opted to veto it.

A woman told police that she was sexually assaulted in 2017 by Pete Hegseth after he took her phone, blocked the door to a California hotel room and refused to let her leave.

U.S. regulators want a federal judge to break up Google to prevent the company from continuing to squash competition through its dominant search engine after a court found it had maintained an abusive monopoly over the past decade.

A study of access to polls during elections has found systemic barriers to voting on tribal lands contribute to substantial disparities in turnout.

The Senate has rejected attempts by Sen. Bernie Sanders to block the sale of offensive weapons to Israel.

The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency says money available to help communities hit by disasters has shrunk after back-to-back hurricanes Helene and Milton.

At a delicate moment in the U.S. and for the world, President Joe Biden has been notably quiet lately.

Following up the Bibles, sneakers, watches, photo books and cryptocurrency ventures launched during his third White House campaign, President-elect Donald Trump has apparently signed onto a line of guitars.

The Republican-dominated North Carolina legislature has completed its override of Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of legislation that addresses both private school scholarship grants and immigration.

As senators prepare to consider Donald Trump’s picks for his Cabinet, they’ll likely be doing so without the FBI background checks that are staples of the confirmation process.

Donald Trump has tapped former acting attorney general Matthew Whitaker as U.S. ambassador to NATO, set to make him the nation’s representative to a bedrock Western alliance that the president-elect has repeatedly relished criticizing.

Two former Georgia election workers who won a $148 million defamation judgment against Rudy Giuliani have asked a judge to penalize him even more.

Republicans on the House Ethics Committee voted Wednesday against releasing a report on their long-running investigation into President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general, former Rep. Matt Gaetz.

As prosecutors push to preserve President-elect Donald Trump’s hush money conviction, his lawyers are urging a judge to ignore them and scrap the case before he takes office in January.

President-elect Donald Trump says he's chosen former acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker to serve as U.S. ambassador to NATO.

Vigils and other events are being held to draw attention to transgender people who have lost their lives due to violence in the past year.

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.”.

President-elect Donald Trump is clearly prizing experience on television as he chooses people to serve in his new administration.

Weeks after a scandal rocked the Kissimmee Police Department, city commissioners and community members convened Tuesday night to discuss the return of a civilian oversight board.

Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings criticized outgoing Supervisor of Elections Glen Gilzean on Tuesday, accusing him of being “manipulative” in handling surplus funds.

Linda McMahon is Donald Trump's choice for Education secretary.

California voters have rejected a measure on the November ballot that would have raised the minimum wage for most workers to $18 an hour.

On Election Day, Monique Worrell found herself immersed in a familiar routine: greeting voters, waving signs, and driving to polling stations.

Some much-needed upgrades are coming to two of Orlando’s biggest sports venues.

Fiscal belt-tightening is coming in Tallahassee, according to Florida’s new legislative leaders who took their oaths of office Tuesday.

President-elect Donald Trump is interviewing candidates for the role of FBI director in the clearest indication yet that the incoming administration is looking to replace Christopher Wray in the position.

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 quickly rubber stamp his Cabinet once he takes office in January.