Search

Byline: Caroline O'Donovan, Josh Dawsey, Leo Sands, Pranshu Verma Top executives in the technology industry have long been a target of Donald Trump's vitriol. As he prepares to return to [...]

Byline: Isaac Arnsdorf, Josh Dawsey A top adviser to President-elect Donald Trump asked potential administration nominees to give him monthly consulting fees in exchange for advocating for them to Trump, [...]

Byline: Ashley Parker, Josh Dawsey, Michael Scherer Donald Trump's attorney and adviser Boris Epshteyn arrived recently for a meeting about Cabinet picks in the Tea Room at Mar-a-Lago only to [...]

Byline: Liz Goodwin, Jacqueline Alemany, Josh Dawsey, Isaac Arnsdorf Former congressman Matt Gaetz withdrew from consideration Thursday to become attorney general in a new Trump administration after facing steep opposition [...]

Byline: Amy Gardner, Josh Dawsey, Ashley Parker, Perry Stein President-elect Donald Trump plans to fire the entire team that worked with special counsel Jack Smith to pursue two federal prosecutions [...]

Byline: Lisa Rein, Aaron C. Davis, Josh Dawsey CORRECTION: This story originally misreported where Stanley Woodward, one of Donald Trump's campaign attorneys, is based. Woodward works from D.C. Originally moved [...]

Byline: Liz Goodwin, Jacqueline Alemany, Josh Dawsey Former congressman Matt Gaetz (R-Florida) has withdrawn from consideration to become attorney general in a new Trump administration, he announced Thursday, after facing [...]

Byline: Perry Stein, Josh Dawsey Last week marked another first in Justice Department history. President-elect Donald Trump announced he would nominate his personal criminal defense team to serve as America's [...]

Byline: Michael Kranish, Josh Dawsey, Jonathan O'Connell Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump's pick for secretary of defense, paid a woman who accused him of sexual assault as part of a [...]

Byline: Evan Halper, Maegan Vazquez, Maxine Joselow, Josh Dawsey President-elect Donald Trump announced on Saturday that he has selected Chris Wright, the head of fracking company Liberty Energy and a [...]

Byline: Jacqueline Alemany, Michael Scherer, Josh Dawsey, Ashley Parker PALM BEACH, Fla. - Former congressman Matt Gaetz greeted his admirers Thursday night on the lawn outside Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort, [...]

Byline: Hannah Knowles, Josh Dawsey President-elect Donald Trump on Friday chose one of his most combative advisers as his next White House communications director, doubling down on his years-long confrontational [...]

Byline: Dan Diamond, Lauren Weber, Josh Dawsey, Lena H. Sun President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday selected Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime vaccine skeptic, to lead the Department of Health [...]

Byline: Michael Kranish, Josh Dawsey, Dan Lamothe, John Hudson Senior officials on President-elect Donald Trump's transition team on Friday weighed the future of Pete Hegseth, Trump's choice to lead the [...]

Byline: Isaac Arnsdorf, Josh Dawsey Donald Trump named Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Florida), a fierce ally and a divisive figure who was investigated for sex trafficking but not criminally charged, as [...]

Byline: Perry Stein, Josh Dawsey, Liz Goodwin Donald Trump has nominated Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) to serve as the nation's next attorney general, a pick that would install an outspoken [...]

Byline: John Hudson, Dan Lamothe, Leigh Ann Caldwell, Josh Dawsey President-elect Donald Trump is expected to nominate Sen. Marco Rubio as secretary of state and has asked Rep. Mike Waltz [...]

Byline: Ellen Nakashima, John Hudson, Josh Dawsey President-elect Donald Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday, the first phone conversation between the two men since Trump won the [...]

Byline: Ashley Parker, Tyler Pager, Josh Dawsey, Michael Scherer When President Joe Biden was the Democratic nominee, he surrounded himself with an insular circle of longtime aides, often prompting complaints [...]

Byline: Isaac Arnsdorf, Perry Stein, Josh Dawsey, Spencer S. Hsu Even as Jack Smith moved to wind down his federal election interference case against Donald Trump on Friday, House Republicans [...]

Byline: Hannah Knowles, Josh Dawsey, Marianne LeVine President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday announced that Susie Wiles, his campaign manager, would serve as White House chief of staff, as leading contenders [...]

Byline: Shayna Jacobs, Josh Dawsey NEW YORK - Three men have been charged in connection with an alleged Iranian plot to kill people in the United States that included an [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer, Josh Dawsey, Ashley Parker, Tyler Pager Trump Force One was Michigan-bound this spring when the former president confronted one of his biggest political weaknesses: abortion. Donald Trump [...]

Byline: Jacqueline Alemany, Josh Dawsey, Hannah Knowles, Marianne LeVine, Perry Stein President-elect Donald Trump and his allies prepared Wednesday to take power after a decisive election victory that could hand [...]

Byline: Yasmeen Abutaleb, Dan Keating, Sabrina Rodriguez, Josh Dawsey Donald Trump's return to the White House was powered by a historic realignment of the American electorate that upended decades of [...]

Byline: Ashley Parker, Josh Dawsey WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - In a sign of just how close Donald Trump's aides expected the election night results could be, they arranged for [...]

Byline: Isaac Arnsdorf, Josh Dawsey Donald John Trump was elected the nation's 47th president, returning to the White House after a criminal conviction and two impeachments by riding a wave [...]

Byline: Ashley Parker, Josh Dawsey RALEIGH, N.C. - Donald Trump took the stage at the first of four events on the final full day of campaigning Monday, repeating an unofficial [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Dwoskin, Josh Dawsey Tech billionaire Elon Musk is expected to spend election night with Donald Trump and his running mate, JD Vance, as wealthy donors descend on the [...]

Byline: Isaac Arnsdorf, Josh Dawsey, Perry Stein Early in Donald Trump's campaign, an adviser described the reason the former president was more willing to follow the strategic advice of his [...]

Byline: Isaac Arnsdorf, Josh Dawsey, Perry Stein Early in Donald Trump's campaign, an adviser described the reason the former president was more willing to follow the strategic advice of his [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Dwoskin, Jeff Stein, Josh Dawsey Taking the stage at former president Donald Trump's Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday, Elon Musk looked elated as the crowd chanted his [...]

Byline: Isaac Stanley-Becker, Aaron C. Davis, Josh Dawsey, Christian Davenport As president, Donald Trump spent years insulting and threatening Amazon, the e-commerce giant founded by Jeff Bezos. Amazon sometimes hit [...]

At a five-star resort in California last week, Wall Street executives, fast-food CEOs, a few dozen other industry titans and two former presidents gathered for off-the-record conversations. One subject that [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer, Josh Dawsey No American billionaire has played politics like Elon Musk. He is not the first to seed vanity super PACs with nine-figure sums or work his [...]

Byline: Tyler Pager, Yasmeen Abutaleb, Josh Dawsey Inside a third-floor conference room of the Warwick Hotel in Philadelphia, Vice President Kamala Harris was grappling with how to hone her closing [...]

Byline: Ashley Parker, Yasmeen Abutaleb, Josh Dawsey As Donald Trump discussed a national abortion ban with an antiabortion leader at Mar-a-Lago in 2023, Trump said supporting such a ban would [...]

Byline: Ellen Nakashima, Josh Dawsey Chinese state-affiliated hackers have collected audio from the phone calls of U.S. political figures, according to three people familiar with the matter. Those whose calls [...]

Byline: Joseph Menn, Josh Dawsey, Ellen Nakashima, Perry Stein, Yasmeen Abutaleb Chinese government hackers have tried to get inside telephones used by former president Donald Trump, Sen. JD Vance and [...]

Byline: Isaac Arnsdorf, Josh Dawsey, John Hudson, Michael Birnbaum Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump expressed support for Israel's offensives against Hamas and Hezbollah in a recent call with the country's [...]

Byline: Joseph Menn, Josh Dawsey, Ellen Nakashima, Perry Stein, Yasmeen Abutaleb Chinese government hackers have tried to get inside telephones used by former president Donald Trump, Sen. JD Vance and [...]

Byline: Isaac Arnsdorf, Josh Dawsey Donald Trump debuted a name for his idiosyncratic, digressive speaking style this summer: 'the weave.' The Republican presidential nominee, now 78, was frustrated with news [...]

Byline: Isaac Arnsdorf, Josh Dawsey, Dan Lamothe Correction: A previous version of this article incorrectly referred to Keith Kellogg as Trump's last national security adviser. He is a former national [...]

Byline: Ashley Parker, Josh Dawsey In the final three weeks of the presidential race, former president Donald Trump and his advisers have attacked one particular foe more than three dozen [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer, Josh Dawsey Correction: A previous version of this article incorrectly stated the day of a rally by Kamala Harris in Bucks County, Pa., as Thursday. The rally [...]

Byline: Evan Halper, Josh Dawsey An influential oil and gas industry group whose members were aggressively pursued for campaign cash by Donald Trump has drafted detailed plans for dismantling landmark [...]

Byline: Ashley Parker, Josh Dawsey Donald Trump and his campaign have waged an aggressive campaign against fact-checking in recent months, pushing TV networks, journalism organizations and others to abandon the [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer, Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager Aspiring members of Donald Trump's potential second administration gathered Thursday at Washington's Royal Sands Social Club - a bar designed to resemble the [...]

Byline: Josh Dawsey, Isaac Arnsdorf, Perry Stein A political organization helping prepare for the potential presidential transition of Donald Trump was recently cyber attacked by what federal authorities believe are [...]