"I can't wait to get started," said Tom Homan. "I am excited about coming back, serving this country again."

Presented by American Chemistry Council Plus: House Democrats want expanded offshore drilling protections ahead of transition {beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment   The Big Story Trump names Burgum Interior secretary, energy czar President-elect Trump has named Doug Burgum as both his choice as Interior secretary and the leader of a brand new...

Burgum, in his new role, will oversee a panel that crosses all executive branch agencies involved in energy permitting, production, generation, distribution, regulation and transportation.

Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy   The Big Story Pharma stocks sink after RFK Jr. tapped to lead HHS Several pharmaceutical and biotechnology company shares sank Friday after President-elect Trump tapped vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human...

A federal judge on Friday agreed to recuse himself from overseeing the exonerated Central Park Fives defamation lawsuit against President-elect Trump. Shanin Specter, the Central Park Fives lead attorney, disclosed earlier this week that he has been friends with the judge since childhood and previously represented both him and his wife in legal matters. Defendant respectfully...

Trump to create National Energy Council to establish 'U.S. energy dominance'

President-elect Trump's decision to nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary will put some of the former independent presidential candidate's most controversial views under deep scrutiny. Kennedy will need to win 50 Senate votes to get confirmed, and while that's far from impossible, a series of statements he's made in...

An email flagged one of his tattoos thats been used by white supremacists, concerned it was an indication of an Insider Threat.

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President-elect Donald Trump has an ambitious agenda to reduce the size of the federal government, uproot the federal bureaucracy, and limit Washingtons intrusion into the daily lives of the average American citizen. Such goals have long been the aim of many a Republican executive, though few have managed to materially advance them.Trump himself struggled to restrict the government...

Several pure-play space stocks rallied 20% or more this week, in part driven by what sector analysts say is a "Trump Elon trade."

Hollywood icon Sylvester Stallone called President-elect Donald Trump America's "secon...

Poorna Jagannathan (Onyx’s Deli Boys) has been tapped for a heavily recurring role in Lanterns, HBOs drama series based on the Green Lantern DC comic. She joins series regulars Kyle Chandler, Aaron Pierre and Kelly MacDonald as well as fellow recurring Garret Dillahunt. The series, from Chris Mundy, Damon Lindelof and Tom King, follows new […]

{beacon} Evening Report Greg Nash House GOP seeks to bury Gaetz ethics report Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Friday the House Ethics Committee should not release the results of its investigation into former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), who has been tapped by President-elect Trump to be attorney general. Johnson said hed personally talk...

The Arizona attorney general has closed a probe into President-elect Donald Trumps comment about war hawk Liz Cheney. Saying that Cheney would understand war if she had nine barrels pointed at her during combat is free speech, not criminal.