Democrats on the Senate Homeland Security Committee pressed Kristi Noem, President-elect Trump’s nominee for secretary of Homeland Security, on whether she would apply conditions to or withhold disaster aid based on politics at her confirmation hearing Friday.

Kristi Noem​, Trump's pick to lead the sprawling Department of Homeland Security, took questions from lawmakers on border policies and disaster relief.

Flags should fly at full staff in South Carolina, by order of Gov. Henry McMaster, for Monday’s presidential inauguration then return to half-staff honoring former President Jimmy Carter. President-elect Donald Trump prefers all flags to go up for the day.

It is the strongest response Newsom has made so far in the week since the fires first erupted in the Los Angeles area.

The South Dakota governor on Friday didn't experience the rancor faced by other Trump cabinet nominees earlier in the week.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has expanded the focus of a special session he called to pass legislation safeguarding the state's progressive policies ahead of Republican President-elect Donald Trump's return to office.

TikTok is reportedly prepared to shut down its app on Sunday, when the ban is scheduled to take effect, though the actual language of the law technically only mandates that the social media platform be taken off of app stores to prevent new users from downloading it.

Trump’s nominee for massive cabinet job rebuffs ‘hypothetical’ question as he threatens California fire relief

The Guardian reports that when Trump Jr. visited the upscale Hotel Hans Egede for lunch, the “fans” wearing MAGA hats with him were actually homeless people picked up off the street who were promised a free lunch and didn’t find out who Trump was until later.

Although the U.S. flag is at half-staff to mark the death of President Jimmy Carter, California will raise flags for Trump's inauguration

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