Behind the Curtain: Trump's liberal cabinet … - As Axios' Zachary Basu told you, Trump's Cabinet increasingly resembles a European-style coalition government, staffed with a dizzying array of ideological rivals united — for now — by a grand MAGA vision.

Trump Expected to Choose Brooke Rollins to Lead Agriculture Department  —  Rollins is a former domestic policy adviser to the president-elect  —  President-elect Donald Trump is expected to select Brooke Rollins, a former Trump administration policy adviser, to lead the Agriculture Department …

Trump Transition Updates: Cabinet Nearly Full With Flurry of Friday Picks  —  Where Things Stand  — President-elect Donald J. Trump picked Scott Bessent on Friday to serve as Treasury secretary, tapping a billionaire hedge fund manager to lead an economic agenda that is expected to be built around raising tariffs and cutting taxes.

Elon Musk Is Now Cyberbullying Government Employees  —  Elon Musk is so excited to start his new gig ruining the federal government that he's getting an early start by goading his millions of followers to cyberbully government employees.  —  This week, Musk took aim at Ashley Thomas …

Trump fills out his team of randos  —  With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  INTERACTIVE DATA DIVE — “Where Kamala Harris lost big city voters in the battlegrounds,” by Jessica Piper, Paroma Soni and Brakkton Booker: “Blue cities represent the core of the Democratic base. ...

Where Kamala Harris lost big city voters in the battlegrounds  —  In the swing states, turnout in the major cities trailed the rest of the state.  The drops weren't the same across neighborhoods, though.  —  Kamala Harris was banking on a robust turnout in Philadelphia …

Sharp elbows and raised voices: Inside Trump's bumpy transition  —  His freewheeling team has returned to the patterns of his first term in office — with shouting matches, expulsions from meetings and name-calling.  —  Donald Trump's attorney and adviser Boris Epshteyn showed up recently …

Canada's top military commander calls out US senator for questioning a woman's role in combat  —  The first woman to command Canada's military called out a U.S. senator on Saturday for questioning the role of women in combat.  Gen. Jennie Carignan responded to comments made by Idaho Republican …

Trump AG Pick Pam Bondi Is About to Regret What She Just Signed Up For … Matt Gaetz's withdrawal from consideration as Donald Trump's attorney general is unquestionably a big victory for the rule of law.  But now that Trump has put forth Pam Bondi—the former Florida attorney general whose loyalty …

Fox hosts, cable news regulars and entertainment pros: Trump is casting a made-for-TV Cabinet  —  A common thread weaves through many of Donald Trump's picks for his incoming administration, a quality the president-elect values as highly as loyalty and perhaps even more than conventional qualifications: a flair for television.

Voters rejected historic election reforms across the US, despite more than $100M push  —  Two weeks before Election Day, activists from across the country gathered for an online rally heralding the historic number of state ballot initiatives seeking to change the way people vote.

I Watched Orbán Destroy Hungary's Democracy.  Here's My Advice for the Trump Era.  —  To dismantle the machinery of autocracy, you first need to understand how it works.  —  Many believed that after his first term as president, Donald Trump would end up in the dustbin of history.

Team Trump Is Furious Hegseth Hid Sex Assault Claim: ‘This Is the F-king Pentagon!’  —  The president-elect is putting Republican senators to the test with a string of controversial administration picks … Hegseth was already facing an uphill confirmation battle to become the Secretary …

How Scott Bessent Won the ‘Knife Fight’ to Be Trump's Treasury Secretary  —  Longtime investor and his allies launched a public-relations campaign to cement his front-runner status

Election Forecasts Try to Go Beyond the Polls.  Are They Helping?  —  The forecasts, like those from Decision Desk HQ, Nate Silver and 538, are now ubiquitous, but their accuracy is hard to measure.  —  In 2008, Nate Silver's election forecast model was so novel — and accurate …

Musk, Ramaswamy ‘DOGE’ confidence in Supreme Court may be tested  —  Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are leaning on the conservative Supreme Court to support their ambitious plans to slash federal regulations and increase government efficiency.  —  Tapped by President-elect Trump …

Supreme Court steps into fight over FCC's $8 billion subsidies for internet and phone services  —  The Supreme Court on Friday stepped into a major legal fight over the $8 billion a year the federal government spends to subsidize phone and internet services in schools, libraries and rural areas …

Texas approves new Bible-based curriculum for elementary schools  —  Teachers can opt in, but state is offering financial incentive of $60 a student for participating school districts  —  The Texas board of education voted 8-7 on Friday to approve a new Bible-based curriculum in elementary schools.