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In Angola on likely his last overseas trip in office, the president will tour a slavery museum and spotlight a rail corridor that is part of his administration’s strategy in the region.

Sheriff Chad Chronister, who has spent decades in Hillsborough County, Fla., is likely to face an array of challenges should he be confirmed as the agency’s administrator.

The country's president has already shown he is prepared to go to brutal lengths to save his regime.

The president-elect warned the group of nine nations against moving away from the dollar.

Lai Ching-te's trip to the US state is being billed as a stopover, but has been condemned by Beijing.

A third night of protests in the Georgian capital against the government's decision to suspend negotiations to join the European Union left 44 people hospitalized, officials said Sunday.

Tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered outside the parliament Saturday night, throwing stones and setting off fireworks, while police deployed water cannons and tear gas. An effigy of the founder of the governing Georgian Dream party, Bidzina Ivanishvili — a shadowy billionaire who made his fortune in Russia — was burned in front of the legislature.

Georgia's...

Reyna Montoya was 10 when she and her family fled violence in Tijuana and illegally immigrated to the U.S. Growing up in Arizona, she worried even a minor traffic violation could lead to her deportation.

She didn't feel relief until 11 years later in 2012, when she received a letter confirming she had been accepted to a new program for immigrants who came to the country illegally as children.

“All of the sudden, all these possibilities opened up,” Montoya said, fighting back tears. The Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program...

President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday named Massad Boulos, a Lebanese American businessman who is the father-in-law of Trump's daughter Tiffany, as a senior adviser on Arab and Middle Eastern affairs.

Boulos arranged Trump campaign efforts to engage the Arab American community in Michigan, organizing dozens of meetings in areas with large Arab American populations angered by Democratic President Joe Biden's backing of Israel's offensives in Gaza and Lebanon. Trump won the majority Arab American city of Dearborn Heights on his way to sweeping...

Trump announces he's adding another family member to his administration, choosing daughter Tiffany Trump's father-in-law as senior Middle East adviser.

Washington — President-elect Donald Trump's announcement Saturday that he intends to nominate Kash Patel as FBI director sent shockwaves through Washington over the weekend, prompting outrage from Democrats and even some former Trump officials, while some loyalists insisted they believed Patel would be confirmed by the Senate.

Patel, a 44-year-old who served in intelligence and defense roles in Trump's first term, is a controversial figure even within Trump's world, and a former U.S. official described him as "by far the most dangerous pick" Trump...

Two more Democrats on Sunday announced their intentions to run for Democratic National Committee chair.

President-elect Donald Trump announced Sunday that he intends to nominate Massad Boulos, a billionaire businessman from Lebanon who is also father-in-law to Tiffany Trump, to serve as senior adviser on Arab and Middle Eastern affairs.

Boulos' son, Michael Boulos, has been married to Trump's daughter Tiffany since 2022.

Trump announced Boulos as his pick for the advisory position in a post shared to his social media platform Truth Social on Sunday.

"Massad is an accomplished lawyer and a highly respected leader in the business world, with...

The announcement on Sunday was the second time this weekend that President-elect Donald J. Trump offered an influential post to an in-law.

The American has been streaming continuously for 30 days to try reclaim the record he set last year.

On this "Face the Nation" broadcast, moderated by Major Garrett:

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MAJOR GARRETT: I'm Major Garrett in Washington.

And this week on Face the Nation: President-elect Trump selects a – quote – "warrior" to lead the FBI and rattles top trading partners with threats of tariffs.

The drumbeat continues from Mar-a-Lago, as president-elect Trump announces plans to nominate loyalists who have more than once lashed out at the agencies they hope to lead.

We will hear from...