By DAVID KLEPPER
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump has long viewed the nation’s spy services with suspicion, accusing them of trying to undermine his first term and campaigns. Now that he’s returning to the White House, Trump’s promises to overhaul …
By REBECCA SANTANA
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump has selected South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem to head the Department of Homeland Security, one of the biggest government agencies that will be integral to his vow to secure the border and …
By MEG KINNARD
In picking Fox News Channel host Pete Hegseth to lead the Department of Defense, President-elect Donald Trump has selected a military veteran and popular conservative media personality with a large following of his own.
Hegseth, 44, has …
By JOSH BOAK and ZEKE MILLER
WASHINGTON (AP) — All that’s left is for President-elect Donald Trump to put his name on it — if he wants.
Trump won the White House in large part because of voters’ frustration with …
By LOLITA C. BALDOR and TARA COPP
WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump stunned the Pentagon and the broader defense world by nominating Fox News host Pete Hegseth to serve as his defense secretary, tapping someone largely inexperienced and untested …
By ALEX VEIGA
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Donald Trump’s election win is clouding the outlook for mortgage rates even before he gets back to the White House.
The president-elect campaigned on a promise to make homeownership more affordable by lowering …
By MICHAEL R. SISAK and JENNIFER PELTZ
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s election victory created a conundrum for the judge overseeing his criminal case in New York. Can he go ahead and sentence the president-elect, or would doing so …
By JOCELYN GECKER and SHARON LURYE
Transgender youth in the United States have been flooding crisis hotlines since the election of Donald Trump, who made anti-transgender themes central to his campaign. Many teens worry about how their lives could change …
"How expensive?" tracks measurements of California's totally unaffordable housing market.
The pain: Once again, California was found to be the high-rent state.
The source: Rentometer's third-quarter report looked at rents in 757 US cities for three-bedroom single-family houses.
The pinch …
By MARY CLARE JALONICK and STEPHEN GROVES
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans have elected South Dakota Sen. John Thune as the next Senate majority leader, completing a momentous shift in their leadership that elevates a top deputy of Mitch McConnell into …
By WILL WEISSERT and LISA MASCARO, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump is making a victor's return to Washington.
President Joe Biden will welcome him to the White House on Wednesday for an Oval Office visit that is …
Monterey County is nearing its rainy season, with just a couple weeks left in November.
After a rainy day in Monterey County on Monday, the National Weather Service reports that more is on the way, but it’s still too early …
MONTEREY – The California Highway Patrol is asking for the community's help in identifying the driver in a hit-and-run fatal accident that occurred on Highway 1 on Sunday morning.
At about 9:45 a.m., the Monterey Communication Center received a call …
DEL REY OAKS – Pile driving activities are expected to occur through Friday this week as the Canyon Del Rey Segment of the Fort Ord Regional Trail and Greenway project continues to take shape through Del Rey Oaks.
Work on …
Registration is currently open for local students to join the AIM Ideas Lab, a student-led project focusing on teenager’s mental health.
Throughout the eight-week program, students work together to create a mental health survey to disseminate to their peers and …
Seven Ukrainian warfighters, who were world-class professional musicians before the war, are concluding their two-month music tour in California.
The Ukraine Cultural Forces Music Tour of Thanks will make its way to Monterey at 4 p.m. Wednesday at Steinbeck Plaza. …
Morayo Ogunbayo | (TNS) The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
You probably have a cabinet full of rapid COVID-19 tests you’ve accumulated. The expiration dates have come closer and closer, with some tests even reaching them.
The Food and Drug Administration, however, has …
By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY and ALI SWENSON, Associated Press
ATLANTA (AP) — Local officials are beginning to certify the results of this year’s presidential election in a process that, so far, has been playing out quietly, in stark contrast to …
By MIKE STOBBE
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. syphilis epidemic slowed dramatically last year, gonorrhea cases fell and chlamydia cases remained below prepandemic levels, according to federal data released Tuesday.
The numbers represented some good news about sexually transmitted …
By ZEKE MILLER and MICHELLE L. PRICE, Associated Press
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump will nominate former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee as ambassador to Israel, Trump announced Tuesday.
Huckabee is a staunch defender of Israel and …
