The message was clear when thousands of conservatives gathered in downtown Phoenix: “Donald Trump is in charge.”

Many in Trump’s inner circle believed that Pompeo, who served as secretary of state and CIA director during Trump’s first term, was the clear front-runner to be the next defense secretary. The day before the election, Trump praised Pompeo during a campaign rally, marveling at his recent weight loss and twice calling him handsome.

Is the former Fox host trying to steer President-elect Trump away from supporting Israel?

President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, justified the January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack and spread baseless conspiracy theories claiming the initial break-in was a false flag operation carried out by leftist groups disguised as Trump supporters.

On the first day of the far-right AmericaFest in Phoenix, extreme Republicans — including Steve Bannon, Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump’s eldest son — were busy bashing fellow conservatives.

Tucker Carlson has officially started defending Syrian ex-President Bashar al-Assad because of course he has. During an interview with economist Jeffrey Sachs on Tuesday, Carlson said he didn’t understand why he was supposed to hate Assad, the Syrian dictator who fled to Russia earlier this month after opposition forces overtook Damascus.

President-elect Donald ... for Trump’s nominees “or you will face a primary challenger immediately.” By the time the program concluded on Thursday night, former Fox News host Tucker ...

There really was a time when it looked like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis might be a serious challenger to Donald Trump for the 2024 Republican nomination. In November 2022, Elon Musk said he’d support DeSantis,

Tucker Carlson claims he was “physically assaulted” by a demon in his bedroom, and that's not a good sign, Rodney Kennedy says.

Thursday on the RealClearPolitics radio show -- weeknights at 6:00 p.m. on SiriusXM's POTUS Channel 124 and then on Apple, Spotify, and here on our website -- Andrew Walworth, Tom Bevan, and RCP White House correspondent Phil Wegmann discuss reports that House Republicans are taking their grievances about Speaker Mike Johnson to President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago.

There was a lot working against the Democrats in the 2024 election—Biden’s age, the late switch to Kamala Harris, the economy that didn’t feel quite as strong as they insisted—but the wokeness didn’t help. Yascha Mounk, the founding editor of Persuasion, is worried that Democrats will ignore this very obvious takeaway from their defeat.

From the dogs that work to find the lost, to a rural community’s solutions to loneliness and profiles on Mitt Romney and John Stockton, these are 20 Deseret News stories that moved the dial in the past year.