US Elections

While the election was over a month ago, voters in some parts of the country are discovering that having their say at the ballot box is not necessarily the final word. Lawmakers in several states have already initiated or indicated plans to alter or nullify certain results. Republican lawmakers in North Carolina are moving to undercut the authority of the incoming Democratic governor, Republicans in Missouri are taking initial steps to reverse voter-approved abortion protections, and Democrats in Massachusetts are watering down an attempt by voters to hold the Legislature more accountable. The actions following the Nov. 5 election continue a pattern that has accelerated in recent years and has been characterized by critics as undemocratic. I think certainly when you're a voter and you're voting on the issue, you're not thinking about whether someone's then going to overturn or just ignore the things that you voted on, said Anne Whitesell, an assistant professor of political science

Buettner and Craig are Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporters at the New York Times who have been reporting on Donald Trump's businesses and personal finances since 2016

Keith Kellogg is expected to play a key role in peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine if both nations agree to talks

Last time Donald Trump was president, rumours of immigration raids terrorised the Oregon community where Gustavo Balderas was the school superintendent. Word spread that immigration agents were going to try to enter schools. There was no truth to it, but school staff members had to find students who were avoiding school and coax them back to class. People just started ducking and hiding, Balderas said. Educators around the country are bracing for upheaval, whether or not the president-elect follows through on his pledge to deport millions of immigrants who are in the country illegally. Even if he only talks about it, children of immigrants will suffer, educators and legal observers said. If you constantly threaten people with the possibility of mass deportation, it really inhibits peoples' ability to function in society and for their kids to get an education, said Hiroshi Motomura, a professor at UCLA School of Law. That fear already has started for many. The kids are still comin

Jay Bhattacharya, alongside controversial appointees like vaccine sceptic Robert Kennedy Jr and surgeon Marty Makary, is expected to challenge conventional public health approaches

Trump's team faces a scandal storm as sexual misconduct allegations against nominees spark debates over accountability

Here is a list of individuals selected by US President-elect Donald Trump for key Cabinet positions and top roles in the White House

Donald Trump is set to assume office on January 20 and has been naming his picks for key administrative roles. The list also features Musk, who will co-lead DOGE to make the US govt more 'efficient'

President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday named Brendan Carr, the senior Republican on the Federal Communications Commission, as the new chairman of the agency tasked with regulating broadcasting, telecommunications and broadband. Carr is a longtime member of the commission and served previously as the FCC's general counsel. He has been unanimously confirmed by the Senate three times and was nominated by both Trump and President Joe Biden to the commission. The FCC is an independent agency that is overseen by Congress but Trump has suggested he wanted to bring it under tighter White House control, in part to use the agency to punish TV networks that cover him in a way he doesn't like. Carr has of late embraced Trump's ideas about social media and tech. Carr wrote a section devoted to the FCC in "Project 2025", a sweeping blueprint for gutting the federal workforce and dismantling federal agencies in a second Trump administration produced by the conservative Heritage Foundation. Trump

Donald Trump Jr. said Sunday that the team now around the president-elect knows how to choose a Cabinet and build out an administration, unlike the time before his father first took office. Any pushback that Donald Trump's unconventional choices face from the Washington establishment proves that they are just the kind of disruptors the new administration and voters are demanding, the younger Trump said. The reality this time is, we actually know what we're doing. We actually know who the good guys and the bad guys are, he told Fox News Channel's "Sunday Morning Futures. And it's about surrounding my father with people who are both competent and loyal. They will deliver on his promises. They will deliver on his message. They are not people who think they know better, as unelected bureaucrats. After Donald Trump was elected in 2016, he stocked his early administration with choices from traditional Republican and business circles, tapping figures such as former Exxon Mobil CEO Rex ...

The US election shows the conventional wisdom was right all along: Controlling inflation should be the primary focus of macro policy

The announcement of Robert F Kennedy Jr's appointment follows Donald Trump's promise to let him 'go wild on health'

X was called out by misinformation experts during the election for playing a central role in enabling the spread of false information about the critical battleground states

Donald Trump is preparing his Cabinet and senior staff appointments for his upcoming second term in the White House, ahead of his January inauguration

Amongst the first Indian-American picks by US President-elect Donald Trump is biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, who has been tasked with improving government efficiency along with Tesla owner Elon Musk. Trump Tuesday announced that Musk and Ramaswamy will lead the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, aimed at improving governance and curbing wasteful expenditures and gave them a deadline of July 4, 2026, the 250th Anniversary of The Declaration of Independence. Ramaswamy's journey as a son of immigrants to a self-made entrepreneur to a political newbie climbing ladders to try his luck as a Republican presidential candidate has been no short of remarkable. But after his poor showing in the primaries, Ramaswamy decided in January to end his bid and back Trump. Later, Ramaswamy took to X to declare that he was suspending his campaign and endorsing Trump. I will do everything I can to make sure he is the next US President. I am enormously proud of this team, this movement,

Donald Trump's second term plans in White House include mass deportations, revisiting the Paris deal, tough trade tariffs, and controversial policies, sparking legal and political battles

The Department of Government Efficiency will work outside the federal structure to streamline governance by cutting regulations, reducing waste, and advising on key reforms

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US President-elect Donald Trump is reportedly expected to nominate Senator Marco Rubio, a China hawk and pro-India leader, as his Secretary of State

Congress returns to a changed Washington as President-elect Donald Trump's hard-right agenda is quickly taking shape, buoyed by eager Republican allies eyeing a full sweep of power on Capitol Hill while Democrats are sorting out what went wrong. Even as final election results are still being tallied, the House and Senate leadership is pushing ahead toward a second-term Trump White House and what he's called a mandate for governing, with mass deportations, industry deregulation and wholesale gutting of the federal government. Trump is already testing the norms of governance during this presidential transition period telling the Senate to forgo its advise-and-consent role and simply accept his Cabinet nominees and he is staffing his administration and finding lawmakers willing to bend those civic traditions. Trump's going to deliver his deportations, the drilling, the wall it's going to take all of us getting together, said Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., a conservative member of the ..