In Ms. Bondi, who served on his legal team during his first impeachment, the president-elect turned to a loyal ally to put his stamp on a Justice Department that he sees as hostile to him.Pam Bondi, a former Florida attorney general, at Mr. Trump’s campaign rally in Greensboro, N.C., this month.
Florida’s first female state attorney general, she became a member of Donald Trump’s impeachment defense team and backed his false claims of election fraud in 2020.Pam Bondi at the 2020 Republican National Convention. As Florida’s attorney general, she tried unsuccessfully to overturn the Affordable
The rise of the Republican representative from Georgia signals the ascendancy of the MAGA wing of the G.O.P. in Congress.Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene during a House Homeland Security Committee meeting on Capitol Hill, in Washington, in January.
Mr. Gaetz has consistently denied the allegations of sexual misconduct and drug use, but his prospective nomination ran into trouble in the Senate.Matt Gaetz, center, with his wife, Ginger, at Mar-a-Lago, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s private club, this month.
Before managing the campaign of President-elect Donald J. Trump, Susie Wiles represented a tobacco company and a mining project, among others.Susie Wiles’s appointment continues a tradition of onetime lobbyists being tapped for high-level government posts by presidents from both parties.
The world’s two richest men are longtime business rivals, but now one of them has the ear of the next president of the United States.President-elect Trump has named Elon Musk co-leader of what he has called the Department of Government Efficiency.
President-elect Donald J. Trump’s pick to lead the Defense Department was described by peers as a skillful soldier who became embittered by military dysfunction.Pete Hegseth, then a U.S. Army captain, speaking in Washington in 2009. Mr. Hegseth served in a string of military deployments — once to Gu
Linda McMahon, who ran World Wrestling Entertainment for decades, was accused in the lawsuit of not preventing one of the organization’s employees from victimizing children who helped set up wrestling rings.Linda McMahon at the Republican National Convention in July. President-elect Donald J. Trump
Mr. McCormick, a Republican former hedge-fund executive, toppled Mr. Casey, a three-term Democrat, in one of the nation’s top Senate races and biggest 2024 upsets.David McCormick, a West Point graduate and former hedge fund executive, channeled the sour national mood into a stunning victory over a w
The transportation secretary, one of several ambitious Democrats jockeying for prominence, gave advice in a speech but was coy about his own plans: “I know that I will make myself useful again later.”Pete Buttigieg outside the White House in July. On Thursday, he warned in a speech that Democrats “w
The intermediate-range missile did not carry nuclear weapons, but it is part of a strategic arsenal that is capable of delivering them.Ukrainian soldiers in eastern Ukraine last week.
Denzel Washington’s performance shows skill, intensity and absolute confidence in Ridley Scott’s pleasurably immersive epic about ancient Roman fighters.
The court accused Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister of having “intentionally and knowingly deprived” Gaza’s population of food, water, fuel and medicine.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and Yoav Gallant attending a military ceremony last month. Mr. Netanyahu removed Mr. G
As Donald J. Trump nominates staunch supporters of Israel to key positions, advocacy groups are taking aim at the departing administration's policies.Construction in an Israeli settlement in the West Bank in December.
A Trump administration may force Prime Minister Keir Starmer to choose between his country’s most powerful ally and its biggest trading partner.Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain joined President Emmanuel Macron of France in Paris last week to celebrate Armistice Day.
The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee said hackers listened to phone calls and read texts by exploiting aging equipment and seams in the networks that connect systems.“The barn door is still wide open, or mostly open,” Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, a former telecommunications executiv
Officers in Trenton have caused the deaths of innocent people, a Justice Department report found, citing a fatality that occurred after officers pushed a man’s face into the ground.A report by the Justice Department found that the police in Trenton, N.J., systematically violated residents’ rights.
A series of atmospheric rivers is flooding the Pacific Northwest and parts of California, with more wind and rain forecast as utilities try to restore power to hundreds of thousands of people.
On Sunday, Angel Lata Landi, a construction worker, called his mother in Ecuador, whom he helped support. The next day, he was one of three people stabbed to death on the street in Manhattan.
Answers to six immediate questions you might have about the art world after a crypto entrepreneur spent millions on a 35-cent fruit.
Trans rights aren’t just trans rights. They’re reproductive rights.
Don’t assume that highly educated foreigners will be spared by the new administration.An improvised ladder hangs from a portion of the wall on the U.S.-Mexico border in Sunland Park, N.M.
Trump failed to push Republicans past their red line.
Cleopatra is not our mother.
