Politics

The “Make America Great Again” flag will fly above the Louisiana governor’s mansion in honor of President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, Republican Gov. Jeff Landry announced Friday.

In one of her last acts as Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen said her agency will start taking “extraordinary measures,” or special accounting maneuvers intended to prevent the nation from hitting the debt ceiling, on January 21 in a letter sent to congressional leaders Friday afternoon.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams said his meeting with President-elect Donald Trump on Friday included discussions of bringing manufacturing jobs back to the city and the Gaza ceasefire deal – but not the mayor’s federal bribery case.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, one of President-elect Donald Trump’s top political adversaries, has shifted his focus in recent days from gearing up for legal battles against the incoming Republican administration to prioritizing the state’s response to destructive wildfires around Los Angeles.

When Democrat John Fetterman got elected to Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate seat, many backers hoped he’d challenge convention and the status quo.

Top Republican and Democrat luminaries will be skipping some or all of President-elect Donald Trump’s inaugural events following a bruising election that was marked by political attacks, insults and low blows.

A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the Obama-era DACA program that protects hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrant “Dreamers” violates the law — but the judges allowed the program to remain in effect pending Supreme Court action.

President-elect Donald Trump’s plans to pardon Jan. 6 protesters have done little to slow the FBI and federal prosecutors, who four years after the fateful day continue to make arrests and pursue hefty sentences against those who breached the Capitol grounds.

Kristi Noem, the nominee to lead the Department of Homeland Security, called the U.S. southern border a ‘war zone’ and said her chief mission at the helm of the department would be to get a handle on the immigration crisis.

While all eyes are on outgoing President Biden and incoming President Trump, there’s a whole world of work being done at the White House between residence staff setting up the home for the incoming family and other workers finding their offices for the first time.

The Senate will begin voting on President-elect Donald Trump’s top nominees in the coming week, with Republicans hoping Democrats will cooperate to confirm at least one on Inauguration Day.

The vast majority of Americans are about to get an extended taste of frigid Siberian weather. Another polar vortex disruption will stretch Arctic air across the top of the globe, with expected frigid conditions in the nation’s capital severe enough to force Donald Trump’s second inauguration indoors on Monday.

President-elect Donald Trump announced that his inauguration ceremony will be moved indoors at the Capitol on Monday due to the bitter cold temperatures expected in Washington.

President-elect Donald Trump will take the oath of office from inside the Capitol Rotunda on Monday due to forecasts of intense cold weather, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Ohio Lt. Gov. Jon Husted was expected to win appointment to the state’s Senate seat vacated by Vice President-elect J.D. Vance.

Senators on Thursday cleared the final filibuster test for the Laken Riley Act, setting up a final vote on legislation that would push the administration to detain and try to deport even lower-level criminal migrants.

President Biden has declared the Equal Rights Amendment to be officially ratified, saying it should be considered the 28th Amendment to the Constitution.

Low-income seniors who aged into Medicare after the Affordable Care Act’s start saw modest evidence of reduced out-of-pocket costs and health improvements, a federally funded study shows.

President-elect Donald Trump on Friday said he spoke with Chinese President Xi Jinping and vowed they would work together to solve problems confronting both nations.

The two recent assassination attempts on Donald Trump prompted authorities to increase security to an all-time high in the nation’s capital for his history-making inauguration Monday as the 47th president of the United States.