Presidential transition

NEW YORK—President-elect Donald Trump is taking on a somber task Thursday that became all too familiar to his predecessor—supporting survivors after an outbreak of violence, this time families and victims ...

Donald Trump will nominate wrestling executive Linda McMahon to serve as administrator of the Small Business Administration, a ...

President-elect Donald Trump is expected to nominate Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, ...

NEW YORK—When Terry Branstad first met Xi Jinping in 1985, Branstad was governor of Iowa and Xi was an ...

President-elect Donald Trump's telephone call with Taiwan sends a strong signal to the Chinese communist regime, said Rep. ...

President-elect Donald Trump is slated to meet with Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke at Trump Tower, it ...

President-elect Donald Trump is planning to name K.T. McFarland, who was an aide in several Republican administrations before ...

President-elect Donald Trump's transition team wants former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney to publicly apologize for going after him ...

Wilbur Ross, the billionaire investor considered the "king of bankruptcy" for buying beaten-down companies with the potential to ...

  PALM BEACH, Fla.—President-elect Donald Trump has chosen South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley to serve as U.S. ambassador ...

President-elect Donald Trump has formally offered retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson the position of secretary of the Department of Housing ...

President-elect Donald Trump says he is "seriously considering" retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson to head the Department of Housing ...

A new poll suggests that more Americans are warming up to the presidency of Donald Trump, but fewer ...

Welcome to Trump Tower. Upstairs, the president-elect is planning his administration. Downstairs, it's a full-on political carnival. Since Donald ...

WASHINGTON—The Senate confirmation hearing of Sen. Jeff Sessions, President-elect Donald Trump's pick for Attorney General, is likely to ...

President-elect Donald Trump has picked Mike Pompeo—a Kansas congressman—to be CIA director. That's according to a Trump transition ...

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz could have a role in Donald Trump's presidential cabinet, according to a report from ...

NEW YORK—President-elect Donald Trump and his team on Nov. 16 vigorously rejected charges of turmoil and infighting roiling ...

Vice President-elect Mike Pence, in heading Donald Trump's transition team efforts, is now removing lobbyists, according to reports. ...

WASHINGTON—The true test now begins for Donald Trump. The Republican president-elect paid little attention to transition planning leading ...