Politics

The chief executive of TikTok plans to attend President-elect Donald J. Trump’s inauguration and has been invited to sit in a position of honor on the dais, where former presidents, family members...

When President-elect Donald J. Trump’s Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel on Saturday to pressure him on a cease-fire deal in Gaza, there was someone...

Mark Zuckerberg, the Meta chief executive who has tried to keep a distance from politics, is warming to President-elect Donald J. Trump.Mr. Zuckerberg is among several Big Tech executives who are expected...

In the final days of his term, President Biden has issued a series of policy decisions intended to cement his agenda and, in some cases, make it harder for President-elect Donald J....

Senator Joni Ernst, Republican of Iowa, announced on a local news radio show on Tuesday that she would vote to confirm Pete Hegseth as the next secretary of defense, ending weeks of...

He may be President-elect Donald J. Trump’s most “unconventional” cabinet nominee (in the words of Senator Roger Wicker of Mississippi, the ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee), but when Pete...

For years, as oil and gas companies increased production, they hired lots of workers, enriching communities across the United States. That is no longer true.The country is pumping more oil than ever...

Jack Smith, the special counsel who indicted President-elect Donald J. Trump on charges of illegally seeking to cling to power after losing the 2020 election, said in a final report released early...

David C. Weiss, the special counsel who spent years investigating Hunter Biden, criticized President Biden for making “baseless accusations” about his inquiry that threatened “the integrity of the justice system as a...

President Biden kicked off his final week in office on Monday with a robust defense of his foreign policy, arguing in a speech that America had grown stronger on his watch.With just...