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Donald Trump says he thinks Pete Hegseth can get confirmed in NBC News interview
Former President Donald Trump expressed confidence in his pick to run the Pentagon, former Fox News host Pete Hegseth, amid allegations of excessive drinking and abuse of women.
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Trump taps forceful ally of hard-line immigration policies to head Customs and Border Protection
President-elect Donald Trump’s immigration and border team is filling out.
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Biden weighs pre-emptive pardons for potential targets of Trump's retribution
During the 2024 campaign, Donald Trump made threatening comments about people he said had slighted or wronged him.
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The first rioter tried on Jan. 6 charges gets reduced prison sentence after Supreme Court decision
A Texas man who was the first rioter to go on trial for the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol has been resentenced on Friday to nearly seven years in prison.
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Trump picks Anthony Salisbury for deputy homeland security advisor
President-elect Donald Trump has chosen a Miami Homeland Security Investigations special agent in charge as his nominee for deputy homeland security advisor.
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Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy meet with Republicans to talk spending cuts. They face a steep climb.
The entrepreneurs are heading up Trump’s “Department of Government Efficiency,” advising President-elect Donald Trump on ways to cut down the federal budget.
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Yoon should not remain as South Korean president, his party leader says
The head of President Yoon Suk Yeol’s conservative People Power Party reversed his earlier position, signaling openness to his impeachment for declaring emergency martial law.
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Trump picks former Georgia Sen. David Perdue for U.S. ambassador to China
President-elect Donald Trump said Thursday that former Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., had agreed to be nominated to be the next U.S. ambassador to China.
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Man arrested in connection with burglary of Trump campaign office
A man suspected of burglarizing a Trump campaign office in Virginia was arrested in California over the weekend, authorities said.
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Elon Musk spent a quarter-billion dollars electing Trump, including financing mysterious ‘RBG PAC'
The super PAC, which defended Trump on abortion, got its more than $20 million in funds came from the “Elon Musk Revocable Trust.”
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Trump says venture capitalist David Sacks will be AI and crypto ‘czar'
David Sacks spoke at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee in July and hosted a fundraiser for Trump in San Francisco.
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Incumbent Sanchez hangs on to seat after narrow race for Oceanside mayor
The results for the 2024 Presidential Election have been finalized and they determined a winner in the Oceanside mayoral race, which at one point was separated by only a few dozen votes.
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House votes against releasing Matt Gaetz ethics report for now
House lawmakers are expected to vote Thursday whether to compel the Ethics Committee to release its report on an exhaustive, yearslong investigation into former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla.
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Incoming Trump administration plans to deport some migrants to countries other than their own
The transition team is preparing a list of countries to which migrants might be deported when their home countries refuse to accept them, three sources familiar with the plans told NBC News.
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Trump's lawyers move to dismiss Georgia election interference case
Attorneys for President-elect Donald Trump Wednesday asked a Georgia appeals court to dismiss the Fulton County racketeering case against him.
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Kash Patel once said he would ‘come after' journalists. It now hangs over his FBI candidacy.
Trump’s pick for FBI director has vowed to “come after” the media. But he also later emphasized to NBC News that his comments only apply if people “broke the law.”