Donald Trump’s transition team has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Justice Department, paving the way for the team to seek FBI background checks on the president-elect’s appointees. The ...

WASHINGTON — With a full slate of Cabinet nominees selected, and a roster of White House advisers announced, President-elect Donald Trump officially launched the presidential transition last week by ...

The Trump-Vance transition has signed an agreement with the Department of Justice allowing the transition team to “submit names for background checks and security clearances,” the transition said in a ...

Donald Trump is reflected in bulletproof glass while speaking at a campaign event in Lititz, Pennsylvania, on Nov. 3. (Matt Rourke/AP) Presidential transitions are not to be taken lightly. After the ...

A thousand miles from the austere buildings where Washington runs, Donald Trump’s transition team in his Mar-a-Lago resort has begun what a close ally calls a hostile takeover of the federal ...

On the surface, President-elect Donald Trump's transition is ahead of schedule, with intended nominees for almost all Cabinet posts already announced. But, because of a paperwork problem, Trump's team ...