Republican President-elect Donald Trump's picks for his Cabinet have included some historic firsts, though women and people of color make up less of the overall number than they did when Democratic President Joe Biden first took office.

Independent West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin said that President Biden had a blind spot to inflation, something he tried warn the president about early in 2021.

President Biden is making a last-ditch effort to cancel more student debt before the end of his term, one of his final attempts to erase the loans after facing years of setbacks.

Prices rose 2.6% between October 2023 and the same month in 2024, an unremarkable figure. Yet, inflation seems to be on everyone’s minds.

Ukraine says Russia launched an intercontinental ballistic missile, one carrying a conventional warhead, toward it. ICBMs can also be used to launch nuclear weapons, and Russian President Vladimir Putin recently lowered the bar for using nuclear weapons in what appeared to be a threat to the U.S. and its NATO allies.

After warning voters for years that a Donald Trump win would be calamitous for American democracy, Biden has gone largely silent on his concerns about what lays ahead for America and he has yet to substantively reflect on why Democrats were decisively defeated up and down the ballot.

Senate Democrats can confirm 12-14 judicial nominees in the final weeks before Christmas and could nudge Biden to 235 confirmations compared to Trump's 234.

Mike Waltz, Donald Trump's future National Security Advisor, stated that the president-elect's transition team is working closely with President Joe Biden's administration on critical national security matters.

Jared Bernstein, the chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, was a leading architect of “Bidenomics.”

President-elect Trump’s choice for national security adviser in his next administration, said Sunday that the Trump transition team is working “hand in glove” with the

Biden’s head of the Federal Trade Commission dispensed with a decades-long tradition of bipartisanship.

Officials are optimistic that Trump will have difficulty blocking spending from Biden’s programs, and may not want to. But they’re preparing, just in case.