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Fox hosts, cable news regulars and entertainment pros: Trump is casting a made-for-TV Cabinet

By Steve Contorno and Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — A common thread weaves through many of Donald Trump’s picks for his incoming administration, a quality the president-elect values as highly as loyalty and perhaps even more than conventional qualifications: a flair for television. He has plucked two Fox News stars from their airwaves – Sean

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Trump fills out his key public health roles

By Kaanita Iyer, Katherine Dillinger and Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump has announced his picks for critical remaining public health roles in his incoming administration. Trump named Dr. Janette Nesheiwat as US surgeon general; Dr. Marty Makary as US Food and Drug Administration commissioner; Dr. Dave Weldon, a former congressman from Florida,

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Trump chooses Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer as his pick for Labor secretary

By Kaitlan Collins, Katie Lobosco and Gregory Krieg, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump on Friday threw a curveball to business-friendly conservatives by announcing Republican Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer of Oregon as his pick to serve as the next secretary of the Department of Labor. A favorite of Teamsters President Sean O’Brien, Chavez-DeRemer is considered one

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Trump’s intel pick was placed on government watch list for overseas travel and foreign connections

By Katie Bo Lillis, Zachary Cohen and Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Tulsi Gabbard, Donald Trump’s pick to lead the intelligence community, was briefly placed on a Transportation Security Administration list that prompts additional security screening before flights after her overseas travel patterns and foreign connections triggered a government algorithm earlier this year, three sources

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Pew poll: Democrats’ pessimism about their party’s future is at its highest level in the Trump era

By Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN (CNN) — In the aftermath of the 2024 elections, Democrats are less optimistic about their party’s future than they’ve been at any point in the past eight years, according to new Pew Research Center polling released Friday. The poll, which was conducted November 12-17, also finds that views of President-elect Donald

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