Trump has not yet named his small business administrator, science and technology adviser or the next chairperson of the Council of Economic Advisers.

The Trump transition team is proposing that the president-elect forgo the regular advice-and-consent process and use his recess appointment power to fill his Cabinet—and perhaps install many other high-ranking officials—to avoid time-consuming confirmations.

Trump’s transition team said that “several” of the president-elect’s picks faced “threats to their lives.” Such “swatting” incidents have proven difficult to stop.

A New York judge on Friday postponed Mr. Trump’s sentencing in his Manhattan criminal case, confirming that the president-elect would not receive his punishment on Tuesday as once planned. The judge, Juan M. Merchan, has not ruled on whether to freeze the case for four years while Mr. Trump holds office or to dismiss it altogether. Read more ›

Donald Trump named Fox Business host and fellow former reality star Sean Duffy as his choice for Transportation secretary Monday. See the latest Cabinet picks.

Who’s good for Russia and who’s going to be a problem among Trump’s Cabinet choices according to Russian commentators.

An online petition urging the Senate to block President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet nominations is gaining momentum. The petition, set up by the progressive advocacy group MoveOn, has attracted more than 44,

Moving from a Wall Street corner office to a DC corner office comes at a cost: For a top financier who’s been asked to run the Treasury Department, say, you could be looking at a pay cut of tens of millions of dollars a year.

NBC News’s Chuck Todd in a recent analysis questioned whether President-elect Trump took moral character into consideration when picking Cabinet members, while also taking a swing at the former president and what he suggested was his “low-character crowd.