Neither Lara Trump nor Vivek Ramaswamy will join the Senate. But it’s likely the president-elect didn’t really go to the mat for their appointments.

U.S. stock indexes closed their best week in two months with a flourish Friday. The Standard & Poor's 500 climbed 1% to clinch its first winning week in the last three. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 0.

A recent CNN poll, conducted by SSRS and released earlier this week, found views of Trump are fairly split with 46 percent of Americans viewing him as favorable while 48 percent see him as unfavorable.

Pence and Trump made headlines when they shook hands for the first time in years at former President Jimmy Carter's funeral.

Donald Trump is reportedly beginning phase one of his mass deportation as early as January 21, the day after his inauguration.

Former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence is planning to attend President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration on Monday, the New York Times reported on Friday, citing two people with knowledge of planning.

Prosecutors believed they had enough evidence to convict Donald Trump for efforts to overturn the 2020 result before they had to drop the case, Jack Smith said.

U.S. Special Counsel Jack Smith concluded that Donald Trump engaged in an "unprecedented criminal effort" to hold on to power after losing the 2020 election, but was thwarted in bringing the case to trial by the president-elect's November election victory.

The report, which said the special counsel’s office stood “fully behind” the merits of the prosecution, amounted to an extraordinary rebuke of the president-elect.

The first part of former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report on his now-closed investigations into President-elect Trump was released Tuesday, days before he will be sworn into office.

Bond yields dipped for a third day on Friday, bringing some relief to investors after they watched the 10-year approach 5% in recent weeks.