TALLAHASSEE– President-elect Donald Trump hasn’t wasted any time remaking Washington D.C. in his own image – and it is looking a lot like Florida Man.

Trump, the first full-time Florida resident to win the presidency, is assembling a cabinet of MAGA loyalists and Mar-a-Lago regulars, which should come as no surprise since Florida has ...Read more

Joe Biden will announce new conservation efforts and funding when he becomes the first sitting U.S. president to visit the Amazon on Sunday.

The U.S. president is expected to visit a rainforest nature preserve and meet with local leaders engaged in conservation efforts.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who’s championed climate...Read more

Cuba is hemorrhaging people as the economy falters. Now, the country is coming under fresh political pressure as one of the government’s archrivals is poised to start calling foreign-policy shots in Washington.

With Donald Trump headed back to the White House and hawkish Sen. Marco Rubio picked as his secretary of state, the island’s ...Read more

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban drank vodka to celebrate. Lawmakers from Poland’s biggest opposition party stood up in parliament and chanted his name. The Bosnian Serb leader, sanctioned by the U.S. for corruption, hosted a cocktail party in his presidential palace.

The return of Donald Trump as American president has been welcomed in ...Read more

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu reaffirmed her decision to seek reelection in 2025 this week, saying that she plans to formally announce after her baby is born in January, as two potential challengers are still weighing whether to jump into the race.

Wu, who first stated her intention to run for a second term alongside her pregnancy announcement in ...Read more

Billionaire Elon Musk voiced support for Howard Lutnick in the race to be President-elect Donald Trump’s next Treasury secretary as warring camps make final pushes for the coveted Cabinet post.

The infighting has delayed decisions on Trump’s economic picks even as he rushes to fill many other posts in his incoming administration.

Musk ...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump nominated Chris Wright, who runs a Colorado-based oil and natural gas fracking services company, to lead the Energy Department.

Wright, the chief executive officer of Liberty Energy Inc., has no previous Washington experience. He’s made a name for himself as a vocal proponent of oil and gas, saying fossil fuels ...Read more

Billionaire Elon Musk voiced support for Howard Lutnick in the race to be President-elect Donald Trump’s next Treasury secretary as warring camps make final pushes for the coveted Cabinet post.

The infighting has delayed decisions on Trump’s economic picks even as he rushes to fill many other posts in his incoming administration.

Musk ...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump may be looking at a chief Boston-based official as a leader of his administration’s immigration enforcement efforts.

Todd Lyons, who led U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Enforcement and Removal Operations field office for New England and was promoted in October to acting assistant director of field ...Read more

Buckle up, America.

President-elect Donald Trump has burst back onto the Beltway political scene, sparking outrage from critics and glee among his loyal followers by tapping controversial characters like Matt Gaetz, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Elon Musk for his second-term Cabinet.

Just days after scoring a decisive election win, Trump has moved...Read more

The Biden administration is weighing a last-ditch push for an international agreement that would restrict financial support for foreign oil and gas projects before critical talks start in Paris.

Landing the deal is seen as essential to deliver on a promise President Joe Biden made his first year in the White House. But administration officials ...Read more

With President-elect Donald Trump’s selection of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, numerous public health leaders are voicing fears that the nation’s premier health agencies will be weakened at a time when the country faces rising threats from infectious diseases, emboldened industry ...Read more

Billionaire Elon Musk voiced support for Howard Lutnick in the race for President-elect Donald Trump’s next Treasury secretary, offering a late boost to the candidacy of the Cantor Fitzgerald LP CEO as the incoming Cabinet takes shape.

Musk said on his social media platform X that he saw Lutnick as a disruptor compared to Key Square Group LP ...Read more

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