Linda McMahon Faces Confirmation Hearing for Education Secretary

Linda McMahon, a sports entertainment mogul and longtime booster of President Trump, will face lawmakers on Thursday for the beginning of confirmation hearings as she seeks to lead the Department of Education. A former executive of World Wrestling Entertainment, Ms. McMahon has been tapped to run an agency in the middle of intense upheaval, whose very reasons for being have been challenged by the president. Mr. Trump has repeatedly said he would like to smother, if not disassemble, the department, setting up a Senate hearing on Thursday with few parallels in American history. Ms. McMahon will list off her qualifications to oversee the health of the country’s schools in the midst of open discussions in the White House about whether to close the department down.