As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office, Seattle’s largest employer has a lot on the line.

Even though Amazon, like other retailers, is likely to face higher costs if Trump follows through on campaign promises to raise tariffs, the tech and e-commerce giant is still set to benefit from an administration billing itself as pro-...Read more

Donald Trump is promising to relieve the American automobile industry of the pressure from Washington to rapidly deliver an all-electric-vehicle future.

That starts with getting the government out of the auto industry.

The Trump administration has the opportunity to streamline industry regulations, make fuel emissions standards more reasonable...Read more

SAN DIEGO — San Diego County and California leaders in K-12 public education are bracing for a second Donald Trump presidency that they say is likely to threaten federal funding for low-income, special-education and other vulnerable students, erode protections for LGBTQ+ students and promote particular ideas of patriotism in schools.

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WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team is considering pairing Kevin Warsh, a former Federal Reserve official, in the Treasury secretary role, with hedge fund manager Scott Bessent as director of the White House’s National Economic Council, according to people familiar with the matter.

Bessent was offered the NEC post ...Read more

Several of President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees for Cabinet positions have sent shock waves through the political world.

His choice of former Rep. Matt Gaetz for attorney general, for example, has been harshly criticized by members of his own party. He and others have been called out for their lack of experience leading large organizations...Read more

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump said he will nominate former U.S. Rep. Sean Duffy as the head of his Department of Transportation.

“Sean will use his experience and the relationships he has built over many years in Congress to maintain and rebuild our Nation’s Infrastructure, and fulfill our Mission of ushering in The Golden Age...Read more

MIAMI — Frank Artiles, a former Marine and Republican state senator convicted last month of orchestrating a ghost candidate scheme that likely stole an election from a Democrat, was sentenced Monday to 60 days in jail, five years of probation and 500 hours of community service.

But it will be a while — if ever — before Artiles, 51, spends...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday said he is likely to make a decision on who will fill Marco Rubio’s U.S. Senate seat by early January, saying his office has already begun vetting several possible candidates and will continue to do so over the coming weeks.

President-elect Donald Trump named Rubio as his pick for U.S....Read more

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump is poised to return to the Oval Office with more political power than he possessed entering his first term, according to allies and even some Democrats — despite some of his troublesome handpicked nominees and immediate lame-duck status.

Trump’s transition operation leading up to Inauguration Day ...Read more

ATLANTA — The Georgia Court of Appeals on Monday, without explanation, canceled the scheduled Dec. 5 oral arguments over whether Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis should be disqualified from the election interference case against former President Donald Trump and his allies.

The decision took many attorneys involved in the appeal by...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Chris LaCivita, President-elect Donald Trump’s co-campaign manager, suggested on X Sunday evening that Bucks County commissioners, including Board chair Diane Ellis-Marseglia, “will go to jail” because of their decision to defy a Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling on mail ballots.

Democratic-led election boards — ...Read more

Former President Donald Trump is the president-elect. He is also a convicted felon, thanks to a jury verdict after a trial in New York state court for a hush money conspiracy before he became president the first time.

Normally, a president-elect gets access to highly classified information, including a version of the President’s ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The pressure is mounting for Gov. Ron DeSantis to appoint Lara Trump to fill the U.S. Senate vacancy left by Marco Rubio, who was tapped to serve as President-elect Donald Trump’s Secretary of State.

But DeSantis, freshly returned from a weeklong trade mission to Italy, said he is weeks away from making a choice, even as...Read more

Throughout the presidential campaign, voters consistently told pollsters that they were sick and tired of America’s broken immigration system and its porous border. And to the surprise of many Democrats, that number included many Latino voters and naturalized citizens in cities like Chicago that historically built their populations by ...Read more

Amid fresh allegations that Sean “Diddy” Combs is managing a PR campaign from behind bars intended to intimidate witnesses and influence jurors, lawyers for the embattled hip-hop mogul on Monday demanded a hearing into how federal authorities obtained his paperwork from Brooklyn MDC.

In arguments opposing Combs’ latest request to be ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Florida — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday said he is likely to make a decision on who will fill Marco Rubio’s U.S. Senate seat by early January, saying his office has already begun vetting several possible candidates and will continue to do so over the coming weeks.

President-elect Donald Trump named Rubio as his pick for U...Read more

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump will return to the White House with a Senate Republican majority that is larger than the start of his first term and friendlier to him overall, a combination that gives him a powerful advantage to filling his Cabinet and other positions.

There’s a high likelihood that Republicans will have a 53-seat majority when ...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump Monday backed an “emergency” plan to use the military to carry out mass deportations of undocumented immigrants, which he has said could target more than 10 million people.

“True!!!” Trump posted on his social media site in response to an ally’s claim that the incoming president would use unspecified ...Read more

BOSTON — Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said the city will look to continue to protect immigrants in “every possible way” under the threat of mass deportations from President-elect Donald Trump.

“Elections have consequences, and the federal government is responsible for a certain set of actions, and cities — no individual city — can ...Read more