President-elect Trump sported a familiar stone-faced stare in his official portrait revealed just days before he makes his White House return. The intrigue: The nontraditional portrait is starkly different from his first term pose,

The official portraits of President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance were released Thursday by the Trump transition team. "And they go hard," a press release from the transition said about the portraits.

Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump's presumptive nominee for Secretary of Defense, was subjected to a morality-based confirmation hearing by Democrats, despite his past infidelity and allegations of sexual assault, while Democrats such as Elizabeth Warren and Richard Blumenthal were not questioned about their own past misdeeds.