THE LOYALISTS: Bring the vapors. Donald Trump has named anti-vaxxer and conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be  his Secretary of Health and Human Services.   Trump said last night at a black tie event at Mar-a-Lago that Kennedy will do “unbelievable …

WATERGAETZ: In the most shocking of his appointments so far, Donald Trump announced that Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, a man who’s been under a Justice Department sex trafficking investigation and a continuing House ethics query, is his nominee for attorney general …

BY APPOINTMENT: Donald Trump named Fox News host Pete Hegseth, a veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, to be his next defense secretary, appointing an ideological loyalist to command 1.3 million active-duty members of the military.   Trump is putting together a team whose …

BY APPOINTMENT:  President-elect Donald Trump is rapidly revealing appointments to major positions in his new administration including people to handle immigration, the environment, and the State Department.   Trump is expected to name Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, the man he used to …

THE WAR ROOM: As many as 50,000 Russian and North Korean troops are reported to be massing in the country’s Kursk region in preparation for an attempt to take back hundreds of square miles of territory occupied by Ukrainian troops.   In …

IN TRANSITION: Speculation has begun on how much Donald Trump will pay off on campaign promises from tax cuts to deporting millions of immigrants.   The Washington Post reports possible upheaval at the Pentagon if Trump follows through on threats to use …

 THE POPULIST REVOLT:  As of this morning Trump has 295 Electoral College votes to 226 for Kamala Harris. You need 270. Trump leads by 4.8 million in the popular vote, which he did not win in 2016.   Republicans have the Senate …

IT’S POLITICAL: Vice President Kamala Harris made a surprise appearance in the cold open of Saturday Night Live then jetted off to Detroit for campaign appearances yesterday while Donald Trump made stops stops in Pennsylvania, Georgia and North Carolina.   Harris went face to …

IT’S POLITICAL:  Hang on. Just two days to go.   A weak September jobs report gave Donald Trump ammunition to attack Kamala Harris about the economy while Harris denounced Trump for saying that her ally Liz Cheney should be put in front …