WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s team is forming a new administration and the president-elect is expected to draw top advisers and cabinet secretaries from a pool of Wall Street and business executives including officials from his first term — at least the ones who stuck by him.

Republicans are on track to win total control of government, ...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday named Susie Wiles, the co-manager of his presidential campaign, as his White House chief of staff, elevating a longtime Florida political hand who has helped orchestrate some of the most crucial Republican wins in the state.

Wiles, who has worked for Republican politicians ranging from Jacksonville ...Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Joe Biden will travel to Peru and Brazil next week for two international summits on a trip abroad that threatens to be overshadowed by President-elect Donald Trump’s election victory.

The president will travel to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum in Lima, Peru, from Nov. 14-16 and then travel to Manaus ...Read more

Once again, North Carolina voters have chosen a Democrat to lead the executive branch and Republicans to lead the General Assembly.

But Gov.-elect Josh Stein could start with greater leverage in negotiations with GOP leaders than Gov. Roy Cooper has had in his last two years in office, in which Republicans passed 26 bills over his veto.

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ORLANDO, Fla. — After two weeks of silence, a Florida agency disclosed it has granted a short license extension to state Rep. Carolina Amesty’s family-run school, which is embroiled in the forgery indictment against her.

The revelation did not come until roughly an hour after ballot counting confirmed that the lawmaker had lost her ...Read more

NEW YORK — Rudy Giuliani was blasted by a Manhattan federal court judge Thursday for claiming he didn’t know the location of assets he owes the Georgia mother and daughter election workers he defamed — telling the former mayor the claim was “farcical.”

“The notion that your client doesn’t have any knowledge of where his assets ...Read more

DETROIT — A man serving time for robbery is accused of threatening to bomb Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's residence as retaliation for being denied parole.

Jihaad Ahmad, 36, is incarcerated at the Bellamy Creek Correction Facility in Ionia, according to the Michigan Department of Corrections website. Records indicate he was sentenced in ...Read more

Gov. Maura Healey’s declaration that state police won’t assist in mass deportations is being blasted by critics who say it backtracks from her blaming the federal government for the migrant crisis.

Healey has come under fire after MSNBC anchor Lawrence O’Donnell asked the Bay State governor whether the Massachusetts State Police would ...Read more

Donald Trump has promised voters that he would carry out a range of immigration actions, including deporting, with the help of the National Guard or military, millions of immigrants living illegally in the U.S.

Many of Trump’s plans do not require congressional approval, but they still might be hard to undertake at a scale that ...Read more

BOSTON — The Norfolk DA’s special prosecutor is again trying to get his hands on unpublished material about murder defendant Karen Read from a news outlet.

A few weeks after the new prosecutor requested Boston 25 to turn over an entire video of interviews with Read, the prosecutor has now filed a motion about a Boston Magazine reporter.

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President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to involve anti-vaccine activist and conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in his next administration in some capacity, but whoever else he picks to run the major health agencies will have a major impact on the GOP health agenda of the next four years.

Top posts require Senate confirmation, meaning ...Read more

CHICAGO — Chicago police on Thursday arrested a suspect wanted for the slayings of two Navy Pier workers earlier this week, hours after authorities released images and asked for the public’s help in finding him.

The suspect, thought to be a recently terminated ex-employee, is believed to have fatally wounded two workers at about 1:15 p.m. ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Camarillo Heights resident Maurice Kerr stood inside the shell of his burned-out home Thursday morning.

With the surrounding rubble still smoldering and smoke choking the air, the 68-year-old said he did his best to fight the wind-driven Mountain fire, which started raining embers on his home soon after it started Wednesday ...Read more

Carbon dioxide emissions from private jets have increased by 46% in the last five years, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Nature Communications Earth & Environment.

The researchers analyzed over 26,000 airplanes and 18 million trips — representing most private flights between 2019 and 2023 — and found that more than ...Read more

Hurricane Rafael’s strong winds knocked down Cuba’s entire electrical grid, ripped off roofs, uprooted trees and downed a baseball stadium light tower as it crossed over western Cuba on Wednesday afternoon.

Cuban authorities said the storm left “severe damage” in the provinces of Artemisa, Mayabeque and Havana, but no casualties, ...Read more

Nearly one month after Liam Payne’s fatal fall from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, three people — including a friend of the One Direction alum — have been charged in an ongoing investigation into his death, according to reports.

Authorities completed a series of raids at the unidentified friend’s home, the hotel where Payne died and ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Bryan Kohberger and his attorneys were back in a Boise courtroom Thursday in their push to drop the death penalty as a possible sentence with murder convictions in the killing of four University of Idaho students at trial next summer.

After the hours-long arguments on the appropriateness of the death penalty and whether 29-year...Read more