The people that president-elect Donald Trump has selected to lead federal health agencies in his second administration include a retired congressman, a surgeon and a former talk-show host.

In one of his most controversial Cabinet picks, President-elect Donald Trump said he would nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. Here, we summarize our past work fact-checking Kennedy's claims about health and science.

Elon Musk has showed off a Tesla to China’s premier inside Beijing’s walled leadership compound and dined with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago. If there is anyone with the connections to work things out between the world’s two feuding superpowers,

China's biggest risk during Donald Trump's second term as president would be US government overhauls driven by tech billionaire Elon Musk, a leading Chinese political scientist and policy adviser to Beijing has warned.

Elon Musk has personally appealed to China's premier, Li Qiang, for permission to proceed with what Tesla calls Full Self-Driving as the company's market share in China has dwindled. Some experts have suggested that Beijing may be able to turn Musk into an influential ally in trying to persuade Trump to take a more conciliatory approach on trade.

President-elect Donald Trump’s attorney general nominee was once accused of stealing a Louisiana family’s dog named Tank. In 2005, Tank’s then owners, Steve and Dorreen Couture, put the Saint Bernard in a Louisiana animal shelter to weather Hurricane Katrina.

Get the latest news on the transition to the new administration of President-elect Donald Trump and a new Congress.

President-elect Donald Trump named former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi as his pick to replace former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) for attorney general. NBC News Correspondents Aaron Gilchrist, Ryan Reilly and Ryan Nobles join Meet the Press NOW to discuss the Trump transition.

Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton has laid into Sebastian Gorka, the president-elect’s pick for counter-terrorism chief, as a “conman” whose selection is not “going to bode well for counter-terrorism efforts when the [national security council’s] senior director is somebody like that”.