Historically, presidential Cabinet picks are background-checked by the FBI—but Donald Trump’s administration has instead opted to rely on private companies to examine his appointments, a ...

Donald Trump has awarded the lawyer who won him immunity one of the most powerful roles in the nation’s justice system. Donald Trump has nominated his attorney D. John Sauer, whom you may ...

Fox & Friends co-host Pete Hegseth, who was nominated by Donald Trump to be the next secretary of defense, was previously investigated for sexual assault, Vanity Fair first reported Thursday.

Remember when everyone was excited the stock market spiked after Trump’s election win? Well, turns out it was very short-lived. Donald Trump’s controversial picks for his upcoming Cabinet have ...

Donald Trump has his eye on yet another unqualified lightweight to lead a key agency, as the president-elect reportedly is considering loyalist Kash Patel to lead the FBI. CNN reported Friday that ...

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the November 15 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. We’re now in day two of the extraordinary GOP meltdown over Donald Trump ...

Elon Musk is apparently trying to broker some kind of agreement between the United States and Iran. The tech mogul and world’s richest man met with Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations in ...

Not a single Republican lawmaker seems willing to criticize Trump’s nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for HHS secretary. No one on the right seems to want to criticize Donald Trump’s Cabinet ...

Last spring, Donald Trump presided over a meeting with the country’s top oil executives at his Mar-a-Lago resort. According to The Washington Post, Trump promised to fulfill a wish list of ...

Florida Representative Matt Gaetz’s shocking attorney general nomination now has Dick Durbin demanding to see Ethics Committee receipts. The deeply divisive hardcore Trump loyalist was nominated ...

House Republicans are trying to push through a bill that would give President-elect Donald Trump powers as president to designate nonprofit organizations as “terrorist-supporting,” even after ...

President-elect Donald Trump does not appear to be interested in assuaging any concerns about a total pursuit of power. Speaking before the House Republican Conference on Wednesday, the 78-year ...