President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Elaine Chao, the former Labor secretary and wife of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, to be his choice for Transportation secretary, an official briefed on the matter told CNN on Tuesday.
Tax credits to buy insurance on the individual market. Incentives to sock money away in Health Savings Accounts. Limits on employer-sponsored plans. High-risk pools to cover the sick.
President-elect Donald Trump proposed on Tuesday a penalty -- including possible jail time or loss of citizenship -- for burning the American flag, in spite of two US Supreme Court rulings that protect the act under the First Amendment as a form of free speech.
President-elect Donald Trump might not be a fan of burning the American flag, but neither he nor Congress can criminalize it, the Supreme Court has ruled twice.
A US military investigation revealed Tuesday that Russian and coalition officers engaged in a 27-minute game of phone tag while American and coalition warplanes were mistakenly bombing and killing fighters allied with the Syrian regime in September.
It was May 2014 when a small team of American airmen monitoring a Russian satellite launch saw something they had never seen before. An object the team thought was a piece of debris from the launch suddenly came to life.
In the days following Donald Trump's presidential victory, students in Kansas chanted, "Trump won, you're going back to Mexico," to students from other countries, according to a high school teacher in a suburban community within the state.
Five Supreme Court justices Tuesday seemed to agree with arguments that a Texas death row inmate should not be executed because he is intellectually disabled.
Michael Flynn, Donald Trump's pick to be national security adviser, praised controversial alt-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos one week after the election as "phenomenal" and one of the bravest people he's met.
Vice President Joe Biden will be honored next month by senators on both sides of the aisle for his service in office and in the Senate, Biden spokeswoman Meghan Dubyak confirmed Tuesday to CNN.
Donald Trump's destruction of the Democratic "blue wall" of Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania -- victories that catapulted him to the presidency over Hillary Clinton -- is set to become the subject of recounts.
President-elect Donald Trump will kick off a "thank you" tour across a series of 2016 states that propelled him to victory, with a rally Thursday in Cincinnati, Ohio, a source with the transition team confirmed to CNN Tuesday.
Rep. Tim Ryan is accusing House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of seeking to "further consolidate her power" as he tries to stoke antipathy over her long tenure as the Democratic leader ahead of this week's leadership elections.
While President-elect Donald Trump will soon step into the Oval Office, his business interests continue to circle the globe and in some cases operate in places likely to overlap with his administration's foreign policy decisions.
Since man first explored space, it has been a largely peaceful environment. But now US adversaries are deploying weapons beyond Earth's atmosphere, leading the US military to prepare for the frightening prospect of war in space.
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