The messages showed that F.B.I. investigators took normal bureaucratic steps and precautions when opening an extraordinarily sensitive inquiry into Mr. Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election.
The F.B.I.’s headquarters in Washington last year. The emails were released by the Senate Judiciary Committee in the middle of a contentious hearing for the nominee for F.B.I. director, Kash Patel.
Under three minutes of questioning from Senator Peter Welch, a Vermont Democrat, Kash Patel conceded only that Joe Biden was “certified” as the president.
The plane had been cleared to land on Reagan National Airport’s main runway. But in the final moments of the flight, air traffic control asked the pilot to land on a separate, intersecting runway.
The decision raised questions within the Federal Aviation Administration about congestion at Reagan National Airport, one of the nation’s busiest, a person briefed on the event said.
President Trump’s remarks, suggesting without evidence that diversity in hiring and other Biden administration policies somehow caused the disaster, reflected his instinct to immediately frame major events through his political or ideological lens.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, made disputed claims before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.
A halt in foreign aid may undermine American organizations’ support for forces that guard the two largest camps holding Islamic State members and their families.
Kash Patel exhibited unflinching fealty during Donald Trump’s four years out of office, standing by him during the grim days after the F.B.I. search of the president’s Florida estate in 2022.
The administration is showing it doesn’t view the House and Senate as equal partners. So far, Republicans, who hold both majorities, are accepting their new status.
“I think any of these funding decisions are not unusual for a new administration,” said Senator John Thune, the South Dakota Republican and majority leader.
The F.B.I. nominee has not only cast his political lot with the president, he has also used the connection to the Trump brand, Truth Social and other Trump-linked entities as a significant source of income over the past several years.
When the parent company of Truth Social was trying to strip two co-founders of their stake, it hired Kash Patel, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s choice to lead the F.B.I., to help investigate them.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard, three of President Trump’s high-profile picks, on Thursday will make their cases for confirmation.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump’s nominee for health secretary, spent more than three hours answering questions in his first confirmation hearing on Wednesday.
Patients and health care advocates said the abrupt decision to halt U.S. funding for a lifesaving H.I.V. program led to widespread confusion. The backtracking didn’t help.
The Engage Men’s Health clinic in Johannesburg has been temporarily closed after the Trump administration ordered health organizations to stop distributing H.I.V. medications purchased through a U.S. funding program.
The nominee for F.B.I. director made his nonprofit into a publicity machine, selling his children’s book, his clothing brand and his image as Donald Trump’s ultimate loyalist.
On a call with Senator Chuck Schumer, the minority leader, six Democratic governors pushed him to slow down the confirmation of President Trump’s nominees and to do more to block his agenda.
Senator Chuck Schumer of New York on Wednesday in Washington. On an evening call, several Democratic governors pressed him on the party’s strategy against President Trump.
President Trump in the East Room of the White House on Wednesday. He has been issuing executive orders at breakneck speed in the first month of his new term, including one focused on “gender ideology.”
The Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington on Wednesday. Federal workers this week were offered pay and benefits through late September if they resigned by Feb. 6.
Michael Grimes, a top banker at Morgan Stanley, would become the latest leading tech figure to join the Trump administration, as a senior official at the Commerce Department.
Michael Grimes, left, with Linda Yaccarino, the chief executive of X, formerly Twitter. Mr. Grimes is a top banker at Morgan Stanley who helped lead Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter.
Mr. Kennedy appears to have most Republicans behind him as he seeks the job of health secretary, though he couldn’t escape his past stances on vaccines and abortion.
The executive order was among several the president signed meant to steer American schools and universities to adopt Republican priorities, such as restricting how schools discuss racism and gender issues.
The Martin Luther King Jr. memorial at the National Mall in Washington. The federal holiday in his honor in January is just one event put on pause at the Defense Intelligence Agency.
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