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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.

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.

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,

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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.

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NBC News’s Chuck Todd in a recent analysis questioned whether President-elect Trump took moral character into consideration when picking Cabinet members, while also taking a swing at the former president and what he suggested was his “low-character crowd.