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Mr. Kim will be the first Korean American senator. Nowhere in the United States is his community’s imprint more clear than in ...

President-elect Donald Trump announced Florida Sen. Marco Rubio as his pick to be secretary of state and Rep. Matt Gaetz as ...

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Updates on Asheville's food and beverage industry, including what's opened and closed after Tropical Storm Helene.

As nominees roll in, the reality of Donald Trump’s second administration is rapidly coming into focus. This week on “Matter ...

The point of placing loyalists in positions of influence isn’t to make the government work; it is to bend the government to ...

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

President Biden will attend global summits in Peru and Brazil as world leaders prepare for the return of Donald Trump’s ...

Trump’s choice of Pete Hegseth, a Fox News host and Army veteran, as secretary of defense, and of Tulsi Gabbard, a former ...

The president-elect’s choice of combative loyalists who could have trouble being confirmed has raised constitutional ...

For three of the nation’s highest-ranking and most vital positions, Mr. Trump said he would appoint loyalists with no ...