The New Republic

Fox & Friends co-host Pete Hegseth, who was nominated by Donald Trump to be the next secretary of defense, was previously investigated for s...

Historically, presidential cabinet picks are background checked by the FBI—but Donald Trump’s administration has instead opted to rely on pr...

In the scramble to understand the numerous cultural currents that are constantly running through the United States, one of the most instruct...

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the November 15 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is...

We’re now in Day Two of an extraordinary GOP meltdown over Donald Trump’s pick of Matt Gaetz for attorney general. Numerous Republican Senat...

Elon Musk is apparently trying to broker some kind of agreement between the United States and Iran. The tech mogul and world’s richest man m...

Even America’s most spineless senator doesn’t want Matt Gaetz to be attorney general.In a Thursday Newsmax appearance, Texas Republican Ted...

Elon Musk’s Tesla stock is falling on Thursday after Reuters reported that the Trump transition team plans on axing Biden-era tax credits on...

It looks like there is at least one person who is happy about Matt Gaetz’s nomination to be the next attorney general: Representative Marjor...

Donald Trump tapped Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Thursday, effectively handing the rei...

Elon Musk is holding open auditions for employment at his Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE. Applicants simply must be willing to...

Senate leadership seems all mixed up about giving Donald Trump the power to straight up bypass Congress and appoint Matt Gaetz as his attorn...

Alex Jones is having a full meltdown on the cusp of InfoWars’s extinction.The far-right conspiracy network was auctioned off to the satirica...

For anyone who was worried that Donald Trump’s decision to nominate Representative Matt Gaetz to be the next attorney general seemed a littl...

Matt Gaetz’s sex trafficking allegations aren’t going away—but Republicans and those close to the embattled Florida man are doing everything...

Rudy Giuliani’s attorneys are walking off the job.The disgraced New York politico’s lead counsel, Kenneth Caruso, and attorney, David Labkow...

Senator Tommy Tuberville threatened to oust Republican senators who don’t vote to approve former Representative Matt Gaetz’s nomination to b...

Donald Trump is wasting no time making a punch line out of some of his key allies, including Elon Musk.During his first meeting with Republi...

Shortly after Donald Trump made the shocking announcement to nominate Representative Matt Gaetz for attorney general on Wednesday, House Spe...

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the November 14 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is...

In the summer of 2015, Steve Bannon watched Donald Trump descend the Trump Tower escalator. He exclaimed: “That’s Hitler!” He meant it, of c...

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled this week that federal agencies and courts have been misinterpreting a major environmental law for t...

The first few times I left the house without my first child, I forgot that there was no visible sign of my having just given birth. Waddling...

Would Donald Trump have won reelection if not for the backing of the world’s richest man? We’ll never know. But that man, Elon Musk, gave Tr...

On Wednesday, Donald Trump unleashed a rambling announcement explaining his choice of Representative Matt Gaetz as attorney general, lying m...