WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s cybersecurity agency has played a critical role in helping states shore up the defenses of their voting systems, but its election mission appears uncertain amid sustained criticism from Republicans and key figures in the Trump administration.

During Jan. 15 confirmation hearings for Pam Bondi, Trump's nominee for attorney general who oversees the FBI as part of the Justice Department, Democratic senators pressed Bondi on whether Patel was a good choice to run the agency, pointing to Patel's previous comments calling for downsizing the intelligence community.

President Donald Trump was sworn in today at the U.S. Capitol, returning to the White House after winning a second term in the 2024 election. The USA TODAY Fact Check Team is monitoring the inauguration ceremonies and reactions from around the country. Follow along as we sort fact from fiction and add context where it’s needed.

Welch: “Well, the other way to say it is he won.” Watch the exchange between Senator Welch and Kash Patel during Mr. Patel’s confirmation hearing on his nomination to be the next Director of the FBI: Senator Peter Welch: Let me tell you the source of my ongoing concern,

In July 2020, then-President Donald Trump ... re banning them from the United States." The next month, he signed an executive order seeking to ban the app. Flash forward four years: During the 2024 presidential campaign, Trump joined TikTok and spoke ...

The newly sworn-in 47th president signed a document commuting 14 prison sentences and offering “a full, complete and unconditional pardon to all other individuals convicted of offenses related to events that occurred at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021.”

Jay Matthew Kenyon, 47, of Harrisonburg, was sentenced or brandishing a knife at police during the Jan. 6, 2021, putsch led on behalf of Donald Trump.

President Trump was sworn in as the 47th president of the United States on Monday, returning the former president to the Oval Office on promises to restore America to greatness.

Outgoing President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden welcomed President-elect Donald Trump and incoming first lady Melania Trump to the White House for tea before the inauguration on Monday, Jan. 20

Donald Trump asserts that the 2020 election was rigged and suggests that the Republican success in 2024 defied polling predictions due to public distrust.

Tomorrow, in defiance of mighty odds, Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States, will take the oath of office to become the nation’s

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