It's unclear who'll take over at the Pentagon and the military services when the top leaders all step down Monday as President-elect Donald Trump is sworn into office.

President-elect Donald Trump is poised to seize greater control of the federal government than any modern president before him when he takes office on Monday, charging ahead with plans to dismantle what he and his allies call the "deep state,

The question the Senate confirmation process must address is whether the department’s tradition of independence will be supplanted by a new value: loyalty.

Democratic states' attorneys general launched a legal bid this week to defend Biden administration policies on immigration, the environment and guns, just days before Donald Trump takes office on Monday.

Some of Trump's closest advisers have raised concerns over investigations into alien life, as the president-elect is poised to return to the White House.

The confirmation process for President-elect Donald Trump's incoming Cabinet is underway. After a Tuesday hearing with Trump's defense secretary nominee, Pete Hegseth, several other key members of the incoming administration went before the committees overseeing the agencies that Trump wants them to run.

Wealthy hedge fund executive Scott Bessent – whose confirmation hearing for treasury secretary is slated for Thursday – has hundreds of millions of dollars in assets and owns property from North Dakota to the Bahamas.

Tennis legend Martina Navratilova has shared her thoughts on President-elect Donald Trump's influence over political nominations.

The Trump administration will also push to fill the thousands of political appointments across government as soon as possible, another source told Reuters

The goal is to inject political loyalists deep into the workings of government, perhaps more so than any other recent president.

Donald Trump plans to reintroduce Schedule F to reclassify federal jobs, allowing mass firings of career employees. The initiative aims to reduce bureaucracy and replace positions with political loyalists,