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Billionaire investor Wilbur Ross has accepted President-elect Trump's offer to serve as commerce secretary in the incoming administration, according to multiple reports Tuesday evening.

The US government continues to reel from a large and sophisticated hacking campaign that affected top federal agencies, including the energy department, the treasury and commerce departments, and is even said to have targeted the agency responsible for the country’s nuclear weapons stockpile.

Authorities expressed increasing alarm over the hack, suspected to be the work of Russia,

Commerce Secretary John Bryson was involved in two car accidents in California over the weekend and could face felony hit-and-run charges, police said.

Mr. Bryson, who was found unconscious behind the wheel of his vehicle, suffered a seizure and was taken to the hospital for examination, said Jennifer Friedman, public-affairs director at the Commerce Department. He was released after

House Democrats are increasingly likely to elect their troika of top leaders for the next Congress without any major confrontation, ensuring a show of unity as they enter the minority.

And it didn’t happen without some work: The caucus has quietly defused several potential conflicts that could have divided its members. Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), who’d been eyeing a shot for the No