Two former Senate counsels agreed in a New York Times op-ed published Friday that President-elect Trump’s nominations for his Cabinet need to undergo FBI checks. Some advisers to the

Trump’s transition team said that “several” of the president-elect’s picks faced “threats to their lives.” Such “swatting” incidents have proven difficult to stop.

In a flurry of late-Friday announcements, Mr. Trump made a slew of picks, including: Russell T. Vought, a key figure in the conservative governing blueprint known as Project 2025, to lead the Office of Management and Budget;

Donald Trump named Fox Business host and fellow former reality star Sean Duffy as his choice for Transportation secretary Monday. See the latest Cabinet picks.

Who’s good for Russia and who’s going to be a problem among Trump’s Cabinet choices, according to Russian commentators.

An online petition urging the Senate to block President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet nominations is gaining momentum. The petition, set up by the progressive advocacy group MoveOn, has attracted more than 44,

President-elect Donald Trump is spending Thanksgiving at his Mar-a-Lago compound in Florida, which has served as the epicenter of his presidential transition — with the past and future commander in chief already naming nearly all of his Cabinet nominees.

Moving from a Wall Street corner office to a DC corner office comes at a cost: For a top financier who’s been asked to run the Treasury Department, say, you could be looking at a pay cut of tens of millions of dollars a year.