Mark Niquette and Enda Curran | (TNS) Bloomberg News
The Republican sweep of the presidency and Congress has transformed what could have been a struggle to merely renew Donald Trump’s tax cuts into a multi-pronged campaign to slash levies in …
Kemberley Washington | (TNS) Bankrate.com
Taxes may not be the first thing on your mind following the presidential election, but there’s no doubt that tax policy will play a key role in the year ahead, given that the 2017 Tax …
By KATE PAYNE, Associated Press/Report for America
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — As President-elect Donald Trump names picks for his new administration from his private club in Palm Beach and prepares to return to the White House, he’s bringing the Sunshine …
By BRIAN SLODYSKO, MARTHA MENDOZA and ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pete Hegseth, a popular Fox News host who is Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Defense, was accused of sexual assault in 2017 after a …
By JOSHUA GOODMAN
MIAMI (AP) — Growing up in Miami among Cuban exiles who fled Fidel Castro’s revolution, Sen. Marco Rubio developed a deep hatred of communism. Now as President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for America’s top diplomat, he’s set to …
By STEPHEN GROVES
WASHINGTON (AP) — As President-elect Donald Trump moves to set up a more forceful presidency than in his first term, he is choosing loyalists for his Cabinet and considering a tool known as recess appointments to skip …
By THOMAS BEAUMONT
President-elect Donald Trump is filling key posts in his second administration, and it's shaping up much differently than his first. He's prioritizing loyalists for top jobs.
Trump was bruised and hampered by internal squabbles during his initial …
By LISA MASCARO, Associated Press Congressional Correspondent
WASHINGTON (AP) — After a resounding election victory, delivering what President-elect Donald Trump and Republicans said is a mandate to govern, an uneasy political question is emerging: Will there be any room for …
By DAVID CRARY, Associated Press
Election victories for Donald Trump and other candidates whose campaigns demeaned transgender people reinforced a widespread backlash against trans rights. For America’s LGBTQ+-rights movement, it adds up to one of the most sustained setbacks in …
By FATIMA HUSSEIN, MATTHEW DALY and COLLIN BINKLEY, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Biden administration officials are working against the clock doling out billions in grants and taking other steps to try to preserve at least some of the outgoing …
By COLLIN BINKLEY, Associated Press Education Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s vision for education revolves around a single goal: to rid America’s schools of perceived “ wokeness ” and “left-wing indoctrination.”
The president-elect wants to keep transgender athletes out …
BIG SUR – A property in Big Sur that was once owned by legendary early European settlers to the area, the Pfeiffer family, is listed for the first time in nearly 60 years for $100 million.
The “Heart of Rancho …
Smelly and saturated with seawater, the marsh muck sucks at the waders of UC Santa Cruz graduate student Aliya Khan as she walks along a channel in Elkhorn Slough. She places a tube into the water, which will collect samples …
By JILL COLVIN, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump is expected to nominate anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr to serve as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, according to two people familiar with …
By DAN MERICA
WASHINGTON (AP) — Demand Justice, a progressive organization focused on the judiciary, is set to bombard Capitol Hill with a message for the closing weeks of the 118th Congress: Do “whatever it takes” to confirm President Joe …
By Arielle Zionts, KFF Health News
HURON, S.D. — Kelly Engebretson was excited to get fitted for a prosthetic after having part of his leg amputated. But he wasn’t sure how he’d get to the appointment.
Nah Thu Thu Win’s …
By Aneri Pattani, KFF Health News
To discover how millions in opioid settlement funds are being spent in Idaho, you can visit the state attorney general’s website, which hosts 91 documents from state and local entities getting the money.
What …
By MARY CLARE JALONICK
WASHINGTON (AP) — Just hours after Republican Sen. John Thune was elected as the incoming Senate majority leader on Wednesday, President-elect Donald Trump presented him with one of his first tests — an announcement that he …
By Brendan Rascius, The Charlotte Observer (TNS)
Ahead of his inauguration in January, President-elect Donald Trump has begun assembling his Cabinet and other key members of his administration.
So far, Trump has announced around a half dozen Cabinet picks, including …
By MATT O’BRIEN and TOM KRISHER, Associated Press
In picking billionaire Elon Musk to be “our cost cutter” for the U.S. government, President-elect Donald Trump won’t be the first American president to empower a business tycoon to look for ways …
