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Manhattan's top federal prosecutor to resign ahead of Trump inauguration
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Damian Williams, the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, said on Monday he planned to resign on Dec. 13, about a month before President-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated. Edward ...
Dec 06, 2024
Trump adviser vows unity over security during transition
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top national security advisers to President-elect Donald Trump and outgoing President Joe Biden are working "hand in glove" to pose a united front against U.S. a...
Dec 06, 2024
Jay Bhattacharya is top candidate to be Trump's pick for NIH director, WaPo reports
(Reuters) -Jay Bhattacharya is now the presumptive favorite to be selected by President-elect Donald Trump as the next director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Washington Post reported...
Dec 06, 2024
Trump picks Alex Wong for deputy national security adviser
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Friday that he has choosing former State Department official Alex Wong to serve as deputy national security adviser. Wong, who served as...
Dec 06, 2024
Trump selects NFL veteran Scott Turner for housing and urban development secretary
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Friday he has picked NFL veteran Scott Turner to serve as housing and urban development secretary. (Reporting by Jasper Ward)
Dec 06, 2024
Trump plans to assemble investigative teams to look into 2020 election, Washington Post reports
(Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump plans to assemble investigative teams at the Department of Justice to search for evidence in battleground states that fraud tainted the 2020 election, the...
Dec 06, 2024
Trump expected to pick Bessent to be US treasury secretary, sources say
By Steve Holland and Alexandra Ulmer (Reuters) -President-elect Donald Trump is expected to pick prominent investor Scott Bessent to take on the role of U.S. Treasury secretary, sources told Reuters o...
Dec 06, 2024
Scott Bessent's rise through finance to the US Treasury
By Lawrence Delevingne (Reuters) - Investor Scott Bessent has spent his career in finance, working for macro investment billionaire George Soros and noted short seller Jim Chanos, as well as running h...
Dec 06, 2024
Trump taps key Project 2025 architect Russ Vought to head budget office
By Gram Slattery and Tim Reid (Reuters) -U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Russ Vought, a key architect of "Project 2025," the controversial conservative plan to overhaul the government, to...
Dec 06, 2024
Exclusive-Trump considers ex-intelligence chief Richard Grenell for Ukraine post, sources say
By Gram Slattery, Humeyra Pamuk and Nathan Layne WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump is considering tapping Richard Grenell, his former intelligence chief, to be a special envoy for th...
Dec 06, 2024
