President-elect Trump on the campaign trail made grandiose promises to voters to bring down costs quickly, to end the war in Ukraine before he even took office and to use tariffs to bolster the U.S. economy and manufacturing.
Since winning November's election, Trump has indicated delivering on those promises may not be as simple as advertised. |
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BY ALEX GANGITANO AND MIKE LILLIS |
Democrats are taunting President-elect Trump with claims that billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk is calling the shots instead of the incoming president.
And with Musk set to play a major role in Trump's second term — both as co-chair of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and a close presidential ally — it remains to be seen if the moniker of "President Musk" will cause a rift between the famously mercurial incoming president and the richest man in the world. |
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President Biden has used his final weeks in office in part to remind voters of some of his more significant accomplishments during his four years in the White House.
While Biden's presidency has been somewhat overshadowed by the way he dropped out of the 2024 race and President-elect Trump's subsequent Election Day victory, there were still a number of achievements that the president and his team have highlighted that they argue will endure even after Biden leaves office. |
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President-elect Trump backed immigration visas for highly-skilled workers as the program has been in the spotlight after Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy faced backlash within the Republican leader's base for signaling their support for the H-1B work visa, which has been criticized as too complicated and susceptible to abuse. "I've always liked the visas, I have always been in favor of the visas. That's why we have them," Trump said in a phone interview with The New York Post published Saturday. |
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Cases implicating transgender rights are piling up at the Supreme Court as it begins drafting its opinion on whether states can ban gender-affirming care for minors. The justices at their recent closed-door conferences have considered petitions to take up disputes involving what school sports teams transgender athletes can play on, parental rights and whether government-funded health care plans must cover transgender care. |
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President-elect Trump on Saturday congratulated Florida State Rep. Hillary Cassel (R) for switching parties to the GOP this month. "Congratulations to Hillary Cassel for becoming the second State Representative from the Great State of Florida to switch her Party affiliation from Democrat to Republican, once more expanding the GOP Supermajority in the State House!" Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. |
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President-elect Trump celebrated the blocked sale of border wall materials following a Friday ruling from a federal judge in Texas. The incoming president, in a Saturday Truth Social post, called the ruling a "major, crucial WIN for America," calling out President Biden and "his cronies" for seeking to stall the construction of the border wall, which was a central piece of Trump's first administration. |
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Kari Lake, a GOP Senate candidate in Arizona who lost her campaign against Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) this past election cycle, said she will not seek political office again. "We know the movement that we have in Arizona, and I will never take that for granted. But there is a corrupt machine here that is hellbent on making sure I never hold office. So, I won't put my family (and myself) through the torture of running again," Lake wrote in a post on X on Saturday. |
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Emergency officials said at least 62 passengers are dead after a plane caught on fire after swerving off a runway at an airport in South Korea, the Associated Press reported. There were 181 passengers on the flight when it caught on fire as it veered off the runway after landing and hitting a fence at Muan International Airport. Officials said the landing gear of the plane, a Boeing 737-800, seems to have malfunctioned, per the AP. |
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OPINION | Republicans will be thrilled that the Democratic Party continues to prove itself clueless and tone deaf coming up on two months after President-elect Trump's decisive and power-shifting victory. But if you are one of tens of millions of Americans being battered by inflation, mass illegal immigration, crime, crumbling cities, failing public schools, the crippling prices of health care and job loss, you will most likely continue to be depressed and concerned that the leaders of the Democratic Party and the liberal media would rather virtue-signal to the far-left than tackle the issues upending your quality of life and putting you and your family at risk. |
OPINION | President-elect Donald Trump has once again sparked a media firestorm with his latest round of off-the-cuff remarks, this time suggesting that the U.S. should recover the Panama Canal, purchase Greenland and, most provocatively, incorporate Canada as the 51st state. Predictably, critics are in full-throated outrage, decrying these remarks as a revival of 19th-century "Manifest Destiny" dreams of territorial conquest. Yet such reactions reveal a profound misunderstanding of Trump's political style and the realities of American society. Critics need to stop taking these comments so seriously. |
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BY MARK MAZZETTISHEERA FRENKEL AND RONEN BERGMAN |
A Times investigation shows how Israel penetrated the Lebanese militia, tracking the group's commanders and culminating in the assassination of its leader. |
BY THEO FRANCIS AND CHIP CUTTER |
From Ford to Walmart, some big companies dialed back diversity efforts as activists pressed. Under the next Trump administration, the pressure will grow. |
BY HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG |
The Transport Ministry said the plane was a 15-year-old Boeing 737-800 jet that was returning from Bangkok and that the crash happened at 9:03 a.m. |
In his presidency's final chapter, Biden has mused about whether he should have handled some decisions differently. |
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