Latest news and live updates as the Trump administration prepares for office next week. Follow live as Senate confirmation hearings continue for attorney general pick Pam Bondi.

Some of the most exclusive seats at President Donald Trump’s inauguration were reserved for powerful tech CEOs who also are among the world’s richest men.

Tech moguls Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg were given priority seats ... Kennedy Jr., nominee for Health and Human Services; Elise Stefanik, nominee for U.N. Ambassador; and Doug Burgum, nominee for Secretary of the Interior, took positions ...

Latest news and live updates as the Trump administration prepares for office next week. Follow live as Senate confirmation hearings continue for attorney general pick Pam Bondi.

Getting humans to Mars has long been an obsession for SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. During his inaugural address, President Donald Trump promised he would “pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts who plant the Stars and Stripes on the planet Mars.

Hawaii Senator Mazie Hirono asks Governor Doug Burgum if he has made unwanted sexual advances on others during his confirmation hearing.

Trump has embraced the ultra wealthy as well as tariffs and other policies that could stoke the inflation he criticized as a candidate.

President Donald Trump’s brash populism has always involved incongruence: the billionaire businessman-politician stirring the passions of millions who, regardless of the U.S. economy’s trajectory, could never afford to live in his Manhattan skyscraper or visit his club in south Florida.

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His second White House is looking a lot like the inside of Mar-a-Lago, with extremely wealthy Americans taking key roles in his administration.

Silicon Valley loudly criticized President Donald Trump when he quit the climate accord in his first term. This time? Crickets.

While campaigning in August, Donald Trump‘s VP pick, then-Senator JD Vance (R-OH), told Face the Nation that big tech needs to be broken up. As the new U.S. Vice President, Vance returned Sunday to Face the Nation where host Margaret Brennan reminded him of his comment and asked if his opinion has changed after Big Tech CEOs — Meta’s Mark Zuckerburg,