Vivek Ramaswamy to leave DOGE and announce run for Ohio governor, sources say

Republican businessman Vivek Ramaswamy is planning to leave his new appointment leading The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and announce a run for Ohio governor, according to two sources familiar with the planning. Ramaswamy is expected to announce his run for governor early next week, the sources said. President-elect Donald Trump had tapped Ramaswamy to […]

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Trump urges Georgia Supreme Court to keep DA Fani Willis disqualified from election interference case

President-elect Donald Trump, in a court filing Friday, urged the Georgia Supreme Court to keep Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis disqualified from the criminal election interference case against him. The filing from Trump’s attorneys, just days before Trump’s inauguration, asked the court to uphold the appeals court ruling last month that disqualified Willis over […]

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DA Fani Willis appeals her disqualification from Trump’s Georgia election interference case

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis on Wednesday filed an appeal to the Georgia Supreme Court asking them to reverse her disqualification from the Georgia election interference case against Donald Trump and others. The Georgia Court of Appeals last month disqualified Willis from her prosecution of Trump and his co-defendants due to a “significant appearance […]

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Gaetz sues House Ethics Committee to stop release of report on sexual misconduct probe

Former Rep. Matt Gaetz on Monday filed a lawsuit against the House Ethics Committee that investigated him for years, in an effort to stop the committee from releasing its report on their probe into allegations of sexual misconduct and illicit drug use. “This action challenges the Committee’s unconstitutional and ultra vires attempt to exercise jurisdiction […]

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DA suggests Georgia election interference case against Trump may continue

The state prosecution of Donald Trump on election interference charges in Georgia may be able to continue despite his impending inauguration, a lawyer for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis signaled in a court filing that urged an appeals court to reject the president-elect’s request to throw out the case based on presidential immunity. The […]

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Fani Willis rebuffs GOP lawmaker’s request for documents, says Trump election case is ‘ongoing’

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis on Thursday rebuffed the latest request from House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan seeking information related to her Georgia election interference investigation into President-elect Donald Trump, according to a letter obtained by ABC News. Willis, who indicted Trump and 18 others in 2023, referred to the investigation as “ongoing” and […]

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Some of RFK Jr.’s views are finding support in some unexpected quarters

Since being tapped as President-elect Donald Trump’s controversial pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been criticized by medical and public health experts for his anti-vaccine history, his current vaccine skepticism, his take on the COVID-19 pandemic — and by some for his descriptions of fluorinated water. […]

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Questions loom about TikTok as Trump’s cabinet comes into shape

As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office, one of his first orders of business will be to decide about the fate of TikTok in the United States — and some of his cabinet appointees appear to be split on the issue. Sources familiar with the president-elect’s thinking told ABC News that he may try […]

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Georgia court cancels hearing in Trump’s appeal of Fani Willis disqualification case

The Georgia Court of Appeals on Monday canceled a hearing that was set to weigh president-elect Donald Trump and his codefendants’ appeal of the Fani Willis disqualification issue, which stemmed from his criminal prosecution in Georgia. Oral arguments were scheduled to take place on Dec. 5 — a month after the election — but have […]

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Trump picks Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head Department of Health and Human Services

President-elect Donald Trump said Thursday he has picked Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine skeptic, to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, he announced in a social media post. Trump said that Kennedy will “restore” the agencies under HHS “to the traditions of Gold Standard Scientific Research, and beacons of Transparency, to end […]

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