A Wistful Biden Says Goodbye in a Closing Appearance on the World Stage  —  His valedictory visit to South America marks an end to an era as other leaders look ahead to a Trump presidency  —  RIO DE JANEIRO—After defeating Donald Trump four years ago, President Biden declared at his first summit “America is back.”

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Trump's immigration crackdown is expected to start on Day 1  —  The president-elect is expected to take a series of actions aimed at restricting immigration and ramping up deportations.  —  In his first 100 days, President-elect Donald Trump plans to begin the process of deporting hundreds of thousands of people.

After Flurry of Cabinet Picks, Trump Rethinks Candidates for Treasury Secretary  —  President-elect Donald J. Trump is expected to invite the contenders for the role, including Kevin Warsh and Marc Rowan, to Mar-a-Lago this week.  —  President-elect Donald J. Trump is eyeing a new candidate …

Trump picked a Project 2025 coauthor to run the FCC.  Here's what it means for Big Tech.  — President-elect Donald Trump nominated Brendan Carr as the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission.  — Carr has been working for the FCC since 2012.

Matt Gaetz feels the heat  —  The would-be attorney general is facing new pressure this week from his accusers and from Senate Democrats.  —  President-elect Donald Trump is dead serious about making him attorney general.  Speaker Mike Johnson is pledging to bury a critical House Ethics Committee report …

Ann Selzer leaving election polling after Iowa whiff  —  The legendary pollster is ending her relationship with the Des Moines Register, which dates back to 1997.  —  Two weeks after her firm incorrectly found Vice President Kamala Harris surging in increasingly red Iowa …

13 things everyone should know about Pete Hegseth  —  Secretary of Defense is one of the most complex and consequential positions on earth.  The person in that position is responsible for overseeing the world's largest bureaucracy, the Department of Defense, with over 2.6 million employees and a budget of over $840 billion.

Dems who overcame GOP tide urge party to focus on ‘kitchen-table issues’  —  Sens.-elect Elissa Slotkin and Ruben Gallego diagnosed their party's ills on the Sunday shows.  —  Democrats who won major Senate races have a blunt message for their party: Get a better economic message or keep losing.

Austrian parties agree to launch full coalition talks  —  The three Austrian parties currently in the so-called “sounding out” phase of talks on forming a new government have agreed to launch full-blown coalition talks, conservative Chancellor Karl Nehammer, who is leading the process, said on Monday.

Trump Makes RFK Jr. Pose with McDonald's Meal  —  Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who's set to run the Health and Human Services Department, recently complained that flying with Trump means eating “poison”  —  Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is Donald Trump's pick to run the Department of Health and Human Services …

Trump's Impossible Task: Delivering for the Working Class and Billionaires  —  He's attempting to pull off plutocratic populism, but the math doesn't square. … He improved on his 2020 vote share nearly everywhere on the map.  And he made significant gains with working-class Latino and Black voters …

From the Amazon rainforest, Biden declares nobody can reverse US progress on clean energy  —  Joe Biden witnessed the devastation of drought up close as the first sitting American president to visit the Amazon rainforest Sunday, declaring that nobody can reverse “the clean energy revolution that's underway …