RFK Jr.’s plans could make Musk’s look small
The Senate confirmed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human Services secretary on a mostly party-line vote Thursday.
Protesters across the US rallied against Trump’s early actions. Here’s how it unfolded.
Protesters gathered in support of USAID and decried everything from the president’s immigration crackdown to his proposal to ...
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RFK Jr.’s Extremely Improbable Rise to HHS Secretary
Kennedy Jr. has now been confirmed as secretary of Health and Human Services, the largest federal agency in terms of overall spending (a cool $1.8 trillion for the current fiscal year). He won a ...
How RFK Jr., once a long shot, arrived at the precipice of Trump’s Cabinet
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. forged an alliance last year with then-candidate Donald Trump and then benefited from the GOP Senate’s ...
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RFK Jr. closes in on HHS Cabinet post after Senate panel vote
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., once seen as a long shot to serve as America’s top health official, is now set to head to the Senate ...
Senate confirms Pete Hegseth as defense secretary
The Senate on Friday night voted to confirm Pete Hegseth as defense secretary after Vice President JD Vance stepped in to cast the tiebreaking vote. Hegseth’s nomination had been hampered by ...
The Tasks of an Anti-Trump Coalition
Since then, new platforms have risen to dominance, especially among younger Americans and those less connected to politics.
Inside Trump’s first week back in the White House: Bright moods and simmering tensions
It was as if he’d never left. The Oval Office that President Donald Trump begrudgingly departed four years ago was reassembled in almost identical fashion over the course of a few hours Monday, right ...
'YOLO McConnell': Former Senate leader emerges as lone GOP voice against key Trump nominees
Out of Senate leadership and serving likely his last term, Mitch McConnell has often found himself on an island among ...
McConnell takes on a new role in the Senate: Lone wolf: From the Politics Desk
As the longest-serving Senate leader in history, McConnell developed a reputation for keeping his rank-and-file members in line and frustrating Democrats by relentlessly using procedural tactics to ...
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Americans voted for Trump. Did they vote for this?
President Donald Trump has hit his second term at a full sprint, marking each day with a flurry of activity meant to rebrand the country and remake the government. It’s been a dizzying onslaught of ...