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U.S. flags at President-elect Donald Trump’s private Mar-a-Lago club are back to flying at full height. Flags are supposed to fly at half-staff through the end of January out of respect for former President Jimmy Carter, who died on Dec. 29.

Iran “never” plotted to assassinate Donald Trump during last year’s U.S. election campaign, President Masoud Pezeshkian told NBC News’ Lester Holt in an exclusive interview in Tehran. 

House Speaker Mike Johnson has ordered that flags at the U.S. Capitol be raised to their full height on Monday for President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.

The three will be seated together on the inauguration platform with other prominent guests.

It is the second time in two weeks that the former first lady is not attending a gathering of former U.S. leaders and their spouses. Her birthday is Friday.

The special counsel’s report calls Trump’s claims that he was influenced by Biden for political reasons “laughable.”

Pete Hegseth will try to convince members of the Senate Armed Services Committee he should be the next secretary of defense.

The section of Jack Smith’s report that deals with Donald Trump’s actions on Jan. 6 and his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss could be released as soon as Tuesday.

As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office, many elected officials in Republican and Democratic states gear up to either aid or oppose his policies.

As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office, many elected officials in Republican and Democratic states are preparing to either aid or oppose his policies.

Special Counsel Jack Smith has resigned from the Justice Department on Friday, officials said in a court filing on Saturday.

Conservative lawmakers across the U.S. are pushing to introduce more Christianity to public school classrooms, testing the separation of church and state. The efforts come as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office pledging to champion the First Amendment right to pray and read the Bible in school. While the federal government is explicitly barred from directing states on what...

Meta’s moderation policy to allow more “free expression” was viewed as the latest effort to appease President-elect Donald Trump, which could help AI efforts.

California’s leaders say it should be a shining example of progressive governance, but critics say it’s become a cautionary tale instead.

A Manhattan judge chose a sentence that sidestepped thorny constitutional issues to end the case but assures Trump will become the first person convicted of a felony to assume the presidency.

President-elect Donald Trump was sentenced to unconditional discharge on all 34 counts in his hush money case.

In a singular moment in U.S. history, President-elect Donald Trump faces sentencing Friday for his New York hush money conviction after the nation’s highest court refused to intervene. Like so much else in the criminal case and the current American political landscape, the scenario set to unfold in an austere Manhattan courtroom was unimaginable only a few years ago. A state judge...

Judge Juan Merchan isn’t going to sentence Donald Trump to jail before he takes office.

A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that the Justice Department can release a report on President-elect Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss but kept in place a judge’s order requiring a three-day delay to allow for further appeals.

A divided Supreme Court on Thursday rejected President-elect Donald Trump’s bid to delay his sentencing in his hush money case in New York.