Matt Gaetz’s nomination as attorney general has brought attention on allegations that he had sex with a 17-year-old girl; the ...

After a resounding election victory, delivering what President-elect Donald Trump and Republicans say is a mandate to govern, ...

With President-elect Trump building his Cabinet, the idea of recess appointments has been floated, but what are they and how ...

Trump's use of recess appointments would bypass the Senate confirmation process for some of the most powerful positions in ...

As President-elect Donald Trump moves to set up a more forceful presidency than in his first term, he is choosing loyalists for his cabinet and considering a tool known as recess appointments to skip ...

To allow Trump to make the appointments, Republican senators would have to pass a motion of adjournment with a simple ...

President-elect Donald Trump is asking the incoming Senate, which will be controlled by his Republican Party, to temporarily go out of session once he’s inaugurated Jan. 20 so that he can jam through ...

President-elect Donald Trump has named his campaign press secretary Karoline Leavitt to serve as his White House press ...