President-elect Donald Trump's victory should bring some clarity to Americans with student loans, but probably not in the way they'd hoped.

A flurry of Biden administration initiatives and court rulings against them have left millions of borrowers uncertain about their future payments. Many federal student loans, in fact, are stuck in a period ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s selection to serve as President-elect Donald Trump’s top health official is prompting questions from policy watchers over how the pick will handle the range of key health policies that would fall under his purview.

Kennedy, an environmental lawyer and leading vaccine skeptic, has been vocal on his ...Read more

SEATTLE — When Gabriel Foster saw the election night results lurch toward former President Donald Trump, he broke down in tears.

"My big-picture reaction is horror and heartbreak," said Foster, a Black queer trans activist based in the Seattle area who is the executive director of the national philanthropic organization Trans Justice Funding ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Defense Department failed for the seventh straight year to score a clean financial audit, highlighting the challenge of tracking the finances of a sprawling organization that has $3.8 trillion in assets and $4 trillion in liabilities.

Auditors overseen by the Pentagon Inspector General once again declared the department�...Read more

The last time Donald Trump was U.S. president it spelled disaster for Iran — he walked away from a landmark nuclear deal, derailed the country’s economy with sanctions and killed its most revered general.

This time around, the signals from the Trump camp are more mixed. The president-elect has suggested he wants to stabilize the ...Read more

The front-facing voice of the Trump administration will be Karoline Leavitt, the president-elect announced Friday night.

The 27-year-old Leavitt, who is from New Hampshire, now becomes the youngest person to serve as White House press secretary.

She was the Trump Campaign National Press Secretary and previously served in the 45th president’s...Read more

U.S. President Joe Biden told the leaders of Japan and South Korea that their coordinated efforts were essential to “countering North Korea’s dangerous and destabilizing cooperation with Russia” as they met Friday on the sidelines of the APEC Summit in Lima, Peru.

“I truly believe cooperation of our countries will be a foundation to ...Read more

Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson said on Friday that an explosive report on attorney general nominee Matt Gaetz should be kept secret.

Hours after returning from meeting with President-elect Trump in Florida, Johnson called on the Republican-led panel to not release the ethics report, which ABC News sources allege includes an interview ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — U.S. attorney general nominee Matt Gaetz is under fire from the leader of an Orlando-based conservative legal group who called the former Florida congressman morally and professionally unqualified for the job.

Mat Staver, founder and chairman of the Liberty Counsel, wrote a scathing critique of the firebrand politician, taking...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — For the nation’s third-largest state, Florida has never been that politically relevant in Washington, D.C.

It’s not crazy to argue that Missouri, Arkansas and Delaware have all had more access to the nation’s highest offices than Florida. The Sunshine State has never had a native elected president. No vice presidents, ...Read more

KFARAKKA, Lebanon — In normal times, you'd rarely hear of Kfarakka, a hamlet nestled in the lush green mountains of north Lebanon whose primary claim to fame is that it's the country's top olive oil producer.

These are not normal times.

Hoping for an end to the devastating war with Israel, many Lebanese have turned to this village of some 3...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead the Department of Defense, Fox News personality Pete Hegseth, was investigated for an alleged sexual assault in the city of Monterey in 2017, according to a statement the city released Thursday in response to media inquiries.

The city's statement discloses that it had one police report connected to an...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead the Department of Defense, Fox News personality Pete Hegseth, was investigated for an alleged sexual assault in the city of Monterey in 2017, according to a statement the city released Thursday in response to media inquiries.

The city's statement discloses that it had one police report connected to an...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump’s promise to overhaul the nation’s immigration policy has heightened concerns about an already in limbo program benefiting more than 150,000 undocumented Californians.

The program — Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals or DACA — grants residence and work permits to undocumented immigrants brought to the ...Read more

BALTIMORE — When Lara Trump dropped by a Rockville country club for a fundraiser one week before Election Day, she exuded the kind of confidence that made even some of Donald Trump’s strongest local supporters turn their heads.

“She said we’re going to get over 300 electoral votes, we’re going to take both the House and the Senate and...Read more

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump said he intends to nominate North Dakota Republican Gov. Doug Burgum to serve as secretary of the Interior.

Trump made the announcement Thursday at a gala for the America First Policy Institute held at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.

“I won’t tell you his name. It might be something like Burgum...Read more

An oracle erred badly. The most impressive results were turned in by a little-known company in Brazil. A nagging problem reemerged, and some media critics turned profane in their assessments.

So it went for pollsters in the 2024 presidential election. Their collective performance, while not stellar, was improved from that of four ...Read more

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services in the new administration. The idea of Trump, a Republican, appointing Kennedy to his cabinet would have been surprising just a few months ago.

After all, Kennedy began his presidential run last year as a Democrat and is the scion of a ...Read more

ATLANTA — Donald Trump’s victory in Georgia and impending return to the White House has set off a chain reaction that’s influencing policy debates under the Gold Dome and reshaping the next vote for statewide offices.

It starts with Gov. Brian Kemp, scrambling his political calculations as he prepares for the final leg of his second term ...Read more