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President-elect Donald Trump has tapped members of his criminal defense team for top DOJ roles. MSNBC legal analyst Lisa ...

Undocumented immigrants from China will be among the first groups targeted for deportation by the incoming Trump ...

Trump is expected to make Matt Gaetz his attorney general and Marco Rubio his secretary of state, and place Tulsi Gabbard, ...

Two members of Congress are pressing officials for answers after NBC News exposed failures to notify relatives of dead people whose bodies were used for medical research. The politicians also ...

Follow updates on Trump’s transition plans after the 2024 election: Cabinet selections like Matt Gaetz, CPAC at Mar-a-Lago ...

As attorney general, Gaetz will be fully empowered to carry out Trump’s—and his own—incindiary mandate, litigating culture ...

Melvin, an NBC News veteran of almost 14 years, will take the anchor chair in January, a week before Hoda Kotb’s final ...

Hoda Kotb is passing the baton to Craig Melvin. After the longtime Today co-anchor steps down in January, the NBC News ...

Thune, of South Dakota, beat out Sens. John Cornyn of Texas and Rick Scott of Florida in a secret ballot election to replace Mitch McConnell.

“We need help,” he told NBC News this week, standing near the ruins of his business, Wedge Brewery. “We don’t need politics.” But a key source of federal aid may not be available any ...

If Donald Trump says, ‘Jump 3 feet high and scratch your head,’ we all jump 3 feet high and scratch our heads,” said one Republican before the party re-nominated Johnson.