‘Learning Curve’ as Rick Perry Pursues a Job He Initially Misunderstood  —  WASHINGTON — When President-elect Donald J. Trump offered Rick Perry the job of energy secretary five weeks ago, Mr. Perry gladly accepted, believing he was taking on a role as a global ambassador for the American oil …

At Dinner Honoring Mike Pence, Donald Trump Touches Many Bases  —  WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump, in a free-flowing speech Wednesday evening at a dinner honoring his running mate, Mike Pence, jabbed at his new Republican allies and his critics alike, questioned the ethics of …

Trump team prepares dramatic cuts  —  is ready to take an ax to government spending.  —  Staffers for the Trump transition team have been meeting with career staff at the White House ahead of Friday's presidential inauguration to outline their plans for shrinking the federal bureaucracy, The Hill has learned.

Trump to announce Sonny Perdue for Agriculture  —  President-elect Donald Trump plans to nominate former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue to be the next Agriculture secretary, transition officials have informed POLITICO, making a pick that's likely to please farm groups while angering those who have called for more diversity in his Cabinet.

Caitlyn Jenner is attending the inauguration  —  President-elect Donald Trump is being urged by some advisers to save at least one dance, as he celebrates his inauguration on Friday night, for a very special Republican lady — Caitlyn Jenner.  —  “It's a brilliant idea,” a member of the incoming administration told me.

Trump is our president: Jonathan Turley  —  In the end, the protests are not about legitimacy.  —  It is inaugural week and Washington is again the rallying point for hundreds of thousands of people.  Indeed, my house in McLean, Virginia is hosting roughly a dozen people from Illinois and Florida.

Democrats Could Help Confirm Up to Four Trump Nominees Friday  —  Leaders complain Republicans are rushing process for others  —  National security picks among those facing least opposition  —  Senate Democrats say a handful of Cabinet nominees could get confirmed on the day President-elect Donald Trump …

Trump's nuclear wake-up call  —  By the time he is sworn in tomorrow, Donald Trump will have undergone a haunting rite of passage: the classified briefing given to every incoming president that explains how he can order a nuclear attack.  —  While neither U.S. nor Trump officials would confirm …

From Headline to Photograph, a Fake News Masterpiece  —  ANNAPOLIS, Md. — It was early fall, and Donald J. Trump, behind in the polls, seemed to be preparing a rationale in case a winner like him somehow managed to lose.  “I'm afraid the election is going to be rigged, I have to be honest …

Trump's threat to the liberal ‘deep state’  —  One of the best books on American history, Arthur Schlesinger's “The Age of Jackson,” began with Jackson's inauguration, when the rowdy backwoodsmen who came to celebrate their hero's triumph frightened the horses and shocked the locals.

Democrats in the Wilderness  —  Standing with some 30,000 people in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia the night before the election watching Hillary Clinton speak, exhausted aides were already worrying about what would come next.  They expected her to win, of course …

McCain still ‘very concerned’ about Tillerson  —  Rex Tillerson's nomination is still up in the air.  —  John McCain said on Wednesday evening that he remains undecided about supporting the secretary of state hopeful's nomination, an adjustment from his stance earlier this week …

Ash Carter: I don't support commuting Chelsea Manning's sentence  —  Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Wednesday that he did not support the move by President Barack Obama to commute the sentence of Army Pvt. Chelsea Manning.  —  “All I'll say about the Manning case is I did not support …

Obama: Reports of voter fraud are ‘fake news’ … President Obama on Wednesday talked about the importance of voting rights, dismissing the idea of large-scale voter fraud as “fake news.”  —  “This whole notion of voting fraud — this is something that has constantly been disproved,” …

Why liberals just love to set terrorists free  —  What is it about progressives like President Obama — and even pretend progressives like Gov. Cuomo — that makes them so forgiving of terrorists?  —  Obama, on his way out the door, Tuesday commuted the effective life sentence …

What We Got Right  —  With a new administration taking office this week, it is natural to assess the inheritance it will receive from the old.  —  There are some who see nightmares wherever they look and insist that the entire global system is unraveling and that America's position as world leader is in precipitous decline.

Trump, Clinton Voters Divided in Their Main Source for Election News  —  Fox News was the main source for 40% of Trump voters  —  In the coming days, Americans will follow a single event across a variety of media channels: the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States.

Truth in the Age of Trump  —  No one who backed Trump has any excuse for being surprised by what he does.  We all know who and what he is.  —  dmittedly, we fled town for the Inauguration.  —  Quite apart from the security headaches, the road closures, and the not-inconsiderable prospect …

CNN/ORC Poll shows last-minute love for Obamacare  —  Washington (CNN)Americans views of Obamacare tilt narrowly positive, according to a new CNN/ORC poll, marking the first time more have favored than opposed the law since its passage in 2010.  The shift comes at the same time more than 8-in-10 …

U.S. Must Confront Russian Aggression, Departing UN Envoy Says  —  Power says world faces ‘forces of authoritarism and nihilism’  —  Trump's pick for UN ambassador has Senate hearing Wednesday  —  The U.S. must confront Russian aggression just as it took on fascism and Communism in earlier decades …