The president-elect delayed the process but now says it is a key step for deploying his team into federal agencies.

Former Maryland Assistant State Attorney and Assistant U.S. Attorney Jim Trusty, who withdrew from representing President ...

Wall Street Journal” reporter Keach Hagey joins CNN to discuss her report outlining why many of Elon Musk’s tech rivals are ...

Pete Hegseth, President-elect Trump’s pick to lead the Pentagon, was forced to step down by both of the two nonprofit ...

The CNN This Morning panel weighs in on why New York City’s mayor Eric Adams is looking to work with the incoming Trump ...

Good morning, Chicago. Daniel Solis, the once-prominent Chicago alderman whose turn as an FBI mole took down the state’s two longest-serving Democratic power brokers, walked out of a federal courtroom ...

President Trump's transition team has agreed to allow the FBI to vet incoming cabinet nominees with background checks, they ...

Trump's transition team signed a Justice Department agreement that could force an FBI background check on Hegseth.

The transition team of President-elect Donald Trump has reached an agreement with the Department of Justice for background ...

The agreement with the Department of Justice will ensure President Trump and his team are ready on Day 1 to begin enacting ...

The new agreement will help Trump officials on agency landing teams access classified information needed to prepare to take ...

Trump's political appointees could undergo FBI background checks after the transition team entered into a memorandum of understanding with the Justice Department.