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The New York Post editorial board—which endorsed Trump in the 2024 presidential race—also panned the choice to nominate Kennedy for the position in an opinion piece published Thursday. The board wrote that Kennedy breaks the “overriding rule” of medicine to “do no harm.”

Conservative attorney George Conway on Thursday suggested that some of Donald Trump ’s most controversial Cabinet picks — such as former Rep. Matt Gaetz for attorney general and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for health secretary — were ones you’d make “if you were actively trying to do harm to the country, to destroy the country.”

Disney actress Rachel Zegler offered an apology for her profane rant against President-elect Donald Trump and his supporters, saying her emotions got the best of her.

Americans ages 18 to 29 swung toward President-elect Donald Trump in this year’s election, but they came to his coalition with sharply different views and interests than older conservatives or most top Republican leaders.

Smith's federal criminal cases against Trump were upended by the election, as the Justice Department's longstanding policy is that sitting presidents can't be charged with crimes.

Complicating the matter for senators is the Trump campaign’s decision to not engage, so far, in the traditional transition process, having declined to sign agreements with the federal government that would launch FBI background checks of nominees, among other standard steps before confirmation hearings.

President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team is bypassing traditional FBI background checks for at least some of his Cabinet picks while using private companies to conduct vetting of potential candidates for administration jobs,

Election victories for Donald Trump and other candidates whose campaigns demeaned transgender people reinforced a widespread backlash against trans rights. For America's LGBTQ+-rights movement, it adds up to one of the most sustained setbacks in its history.