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Transition officials have used Project 2025’s extensive personnel database for potential candidates to hire for the incoming administration, a person familiar the plans said.

Senate Republicans offered mixed responses Thursday to President-elect Donald Trump’s announcement that he will nominate Pete Hegseth, a Fox News personality accused of sexual assault, to lead the Defense Department following the release of a police report concerning sexual assault allegations against him.

Bondi served as the Florida attorney general from 2011 to 2019 after she was the first woman elected to the office.

The physician and TV personality’s views on health policy have evolved significantly over the years.

The House Ethics Committee, which was investigating Gaetz, was told that a 17-year old girl had two sexual encounters with Gaetz at a 2017 party, according to a source familiar.

Hegseth, who was not charged, said the encounter was consensual and denies any wrongdoing.

Matt Gaetz, Pete Hegseth and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. face questions about their personal actions as well as their professional qualifications ahead of the Senate confirmation process.

Whitaker first took over the Justice Department on an acting basis during Trump’s first term in office in Nov. 2018, right after the midterm elections, when Trump announced on Twitter that Whitaker would be succeeding Jeff Sessions, whom Trump asked to resign.

Here are five things to know about former wrestling executive Linda McMahon.

Linda McMahon founded World Wrestling Entertainment with her husband, Vince, and she has twice ran for U.S. Senate. Here’s more to know.

A Democrat said he would force a vote on releasing the report as Gaetz, Trump’s pick for attorney general, met with senators and Vice President-elect JD Vance on Wednesday.

Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs will dent U.S. economic growth going into 2026, said Morgan Stanley’s chief global economist Seth Carpenter.

President-elect Donald Trump is nominating the billionaire professional wrestling mogul Linda McMahon to be secretary of the Education Department, tasked with overseeing an agency Trump has promised to dismantle.

Dr. Mehmet Oz hosted a long-running television show before pivoting to politics.

President-elect Donald Trump has been making calls to bolster his pick to lead the Justice Department — Matt Gaetz — who is already facing skepticism from some Republican senators, according to sources familiar with his push.

President-elect Donald Trump says he is nominating Dr. Mehmet Oz, who hosted a long-running television talk show, to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

The file that was hacked Monday included the testimony of the woman who alleges she had sex with Gaetz when she was 17 in 2017, and the testimony of a second woman who said she witnessed the encounter, a source told NBC News.

Kirabo Jackson, professor of education and social policy at Northwestern University and former economic advisor to President Biden, discusses how education policy in the U.S. may shift under the new Trump administration.

The discounter’s comments are the latest warning from retail leaders about the potential impact of the tariffs.

Matt Gaetz, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Justice Department, paid a woman for sex at a small, invitation-only party in Florida, where prostitution is illegal, in 2017 while he was a member of the House, the woman’s attorney said to NBC News on Monday.