Steve Contorno

After rarely being seen in public in the two weeks since he delivered a brief, 46-second victory speech on election night, JD Vance reemerged this week to play one of the most important roles he will be expected to fill as Donald Trump’s No. 2: His point person on Capitol Hill.

(CNN) — A common thread weaves through many of Donald Trump's picks for his incoming administration , a quality the president-elect values as highly as loyalty and perhaps even more than conventional qualifications: a flair for television.

CNN — Three weeks into Donald Trump's second go-around as president-elect, little about this transition to the White House looks like his first.

The Trump-Vance transition team said Wednesday that several of President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet picks and administration appointees “were targeted in violent, unAmerican threats to their lives and those who live with them” Tuesday night and Wednesday morning.

CNN — President-elect Donald Trump's team submitted an ethics plan guiding the conduct of its members throughout the transition period that

Donald Trump once publicly speculated that Time would never name him the news magazine’s “Person of the Year.”

Donald Trump, pictured in Salem, Virginia in November, is to be named Time's'Person of the Year' for the second time.

CNN — Donald Trump, eager to turn his inauguration into a global event, is personally extending invitations to some foreign leaders, including heads of state that have clashed with the United States in the recent past.

CNN — Donald Trump has yet to arrive in Washington, but he is already confronting the limitations of his electoral mandate.

(CNN) — Donald Trump has yet to arrive in Washington, but he is already confronting the limitations of his electoral mandate.