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Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, 84, was rushed to the hospital on Friday.

Melania Trump and Ivanka Trump made a rare joint public appearance when they joined Donald Trump at the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday for his ringing of the opening bell.  Tiffany Trump, the president's other daughter, was also there.  The president-elect was surrounded by admirers for his big moment - his first time opening stock trading. Trump made his name as a New York real estate mogul.

The U.S. Secret Service was unable to neutralize a threat to Donald Trump from just five feet away according to a bombshell new report.

The House Assassination task force released its final and long-awaited report on Tuesday.

McConnell, 82, is the outgoing leader of the Senate Republicans and has been battling a string of health issues over the last few years.

President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden completely ignored Vice President Kamala Harris and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff on Sunday. The two couples were seated beside each other at the Kennedy Center Honors on Sunday. When announced at the arts awards show in Washington, D.C., the president and first lady didn't even look in the direction of the second couple.

An impassioned shouting match between Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe and a Republican lawmaker broke out during a hearing on Donald Trump's first assassination attempt.

Pete Hegseth admitted that there is some truth to the damning reports that have cast doubts over whether he will remain Donald Trump's pick to lead the Defense Department. The former Fox News host said he received words of encouragement from Trump when they spoke Wednesday morning amid a flurry of news reports containing allegations against Hegseth. From the get go, Hegseth was a controversial pick in part due to his more fringe views - like saying women should not serve in combat roles in the military.

President Joe Biden appeared to doze off in Africa during a discussion of his favorite subject: trains. Biden, during his visit to Angola, announced a $2.5 billion U.S.-backed railway corridor through the continent.  But, twice during a discussion with African officials and U.S. business leaders who are investing in the Lobito Trans-Africa Corridor, the 82-year-old president closed his eyes for at least a minute. At one point, his hand twitched and he dropped something.

Vice President Kamala Harris delivered a Thanksgiving message alongside husband Doug Emhoff on Thursday morning. The Democratic Party 's X account posted a short video of Harris on Tuesday, where she told supporters 'don't you ever let anybody take your power from you.'

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum contradicted the president-elect just hours after he claimed on Truth Social that 'Mexico will stop people from going to our Southern Border, effective immediately.'

Driving on a golf course Donald Trump gave lavish praise to a little girl and then made her a stunning offer, a new video shows. A clip showing the president-elect wheeling around in a golf cart shows him stopping to say hello to some fellow golfers and one particular young child at a course in Florida.

The 82-year-old participated in his last sparing of the gobbling poultry on Monday, giving the two lucky birds a long life on a farm.

Matt Gaetz has withdrawn as Donald Trump 's nominee for attorney general in a stunning reversal for the president-elect. It followed a new allegation that the embattled Republican had a threesome that involved a minor. The announcement came a day after the House Ethics Committee deadlocked on releasing a report into allegations of sexual misconduct and illegal drug use by Gaetz.

For a week, Donald Trump's transition kept up a record setting pace with top Cabinet picks being named against a backdrop of calm consensus. But the knives are out now with advisers briefing against each other amid the scramble to parachute allies into plum jobs. 'Winning helped make everything better for a bit but this is still politics and there are always scores to settle and axes to grind,' said a source familiar with the workings of Trump's inner circle.

President Donald Trump revealed new details of his meeting with MSNBC co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski at Mar-a-lago on Friday after viewers mocked the famous television couple for 'bending the knee' to the president-elect they once denounced as a fascist.

Robert Kennedy Jr. was once considered for a position in President Obama's cabinet according to a 2008 report which resurfaced amid outrage over Trump nominating him to head HHS.

The president-elect gave a speech at the America First Policy Conference, which has gathered the stars of the conservative movement to the resort the past couple of days. Stallone introduced Trump as a 'mythical character' and said guests were in the presence of the 'second George Washington.' Trump asked Speaker of the House Mike Johnson to pass a bill that would 'start my term from Nov. 5' so he could get credit for a boom in the stock market.

Trump names Rep. Matt Gaetz his pick for Attorney General.

Wednesday was all about Donald Trump and that's just how he likes it. The President-elect rolled into Washington D.C. in triumph on Wednesday, landing at Joint Base Andrews and taking a motorcade into the capital city where he got a thunderous welcome from his party, followed by a return to the Oval Office.

President-elect Donald Trump joked about running for a third term as he addressed the House GOP conference Wednesday morning. Trump triumphantly returned to Washington, D.C., a week and one day after his election victory, for a meeting with President Joe Biden at the White House. Prior to his meet-and-greet with the Democratic president, Trump addressed members of his own party on Capitol Hill.

Donald Trump called politics a tough sport when he met with President Joe Biden in the Oval Office on Wednesday, but he thanked Biden for a smooth transition. 'You're welcome,' Biden replied. Biden congratulated the man who proceeded him and will replace him in the White House.

President-elect Donald Trump made a triumphant return to Washington, DC on Wednesday bringing a full entourage of loyal long-time staff members and advisors in tow.

President-elect Donald Trump's newly appointed 'border czar' Tom Homan isn't afraid of engaging in debate on controversial border policies.

Donald Trump officially flipped the state of Arizona on Saturday to sweep all seven swing states in the 2024 presidential election.

Donald Trump has pulled off an astounding political comeback and regained the White House as he's declared the winner of the 2024 U.S. presidential election. He becomes the first president in over 130 years - and only the second in history - to win a non-consecutive second term. His defeat of Vice President Kamala Harris marks a remarkable return for a twice-impeached president, who left office in 2021 on the back of claims that he had incited an assault on the U.S. Capitol building, and who was convicted earlier this year on multiple counts of business fraud.

Former President Donald Trump took the stage and declared victory in the early hours of Wednesday morning, cementing an extraordinary political comeback. Minutes earlier news organizations called the 2024 presidential race for him. 'We made history for a reason tonight, and the reason is that we overcame obstacles that nobody thought possible,' he said.

Nevada's top election prognosticator made a bombshell prediction about who would win the Silver State. Nevada is one of seven expected battlegrounds in the 2024 election. It narrowly went to President Joe Biden during the 2020 election and wasn't called for days due to mail-in ballots still needing to be counted.

Welcome to DailyMail.com's politics live blog where Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are neck-and-neck with just two days to the election.

Kamala Harris is showing a last-second surge in an unexpected area, the typically bright red Iowa.

Donald Trump cut a briefly forlorn figure on Friday afternoon as he told his supporters that after nine years he was holding some of his last ever campaign rallies. 'We're winding down,' he told a crowd in Warren, just outside Detroit, Michigan. 'Nine years we've been doing it, right? And now we're winding down.'

Donald Trump became the first of the two main candidates to visit the Muslim capital of the nation when he stopped in at a halal cafe in Dearborn, Michigan , to court Arab-American voters. 'This is Trump country,' shouted a guest as the former president toured The Great Commoner restaurant. Trump told reporters traveling with him that the visit was part of an effort to make inroads with Lebanese people and Muslims.

Jennifer Lopez expressed outrage at the Puerto Rico dig expressed at Donald Trump's Madison Square Garden rally and asked voters in Nevada to give Kamala Harris a 'Hollywood ending.' J. Lo made her campaign trail debut Thursday night at a rally at the Craig Ranch Amphitheater in Las Vegas, calling it the 'most important stage I've ever been on.'

'How do you like my garbage truck? This truck is in honor of Kamala and Joe Biden,' he told reporters in Green Bay.