Trump’s pick of Pete Hegseth to lead Pentagon signals turmoil ahead
Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s choice for defense secretary, has assailed senior military leaders as having failed to safeguard American strength.
Trump picks Fox News host and veteran as defense secretary, capping frenetic day
President-elect Donald Trump has moved swiftly to announce his nominees, tapping John Ratcliffe for CIA director and Mike Huckabee to be U.S. ambassador to Israel.
Trump taps Musk, Ramaswamy to oversee ‘drastic’ changes to U.S. government
President-elect Donald Trump picked Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead a new commission on cutting government spending and regulation.
Fewer states than ever will have split-party Senate delegations
Around two dozen states regularly elected both a Republican and a Democrat to the U.S. Senate in the 1970s and 1980s. Only Maine, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin remain.
The counties that picked the winning president every year since 2000
Of the nine counties that had voted for every president since 2000, which ones accurately picked Trump in 2024?
The Mike Tyson-Jake Paul boxing match shows streaming is just cable now
Netflix shunned live sports and events for most of its history. Advertising money changed everything.
Discord leaker Jack Teixeira sentenced to 15 years for sharing U.S. secrets
The Discord leaks rocked the U.S. national security establishment, revealing the speed with which top-secret materials can spread online.
A breakthrough in timekeeping: Progress toward a nuclear clock
Physicists have made a breakthrough in the development of a nuclear clock, a new kind of ultraprecise clock that could revolutionize timekeeping.
Tracking whom Trump has picked to fill his Cabinet, administration
Here are the people Donald Trump has picked or is considering to fill his Cabinet and key positions in his administration.
House election results 2024 live updates
Live-updating election results, maps and analysis of the 2024 U.S. House election and key congressional races from The Washington Post.
