Republican Nick Begich III declared victory Saturday in the race for Alaska's lone U.S. House seat over incumbent Rep. Mary Peltola. In the latest count of ballots posted Saturday, he maintained his lead over Peltola by more than two percentage points, with around 9,000 ballots left to be counted. The winner will likely be determined by a ranked...Read more

Weeks after the start of her government, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is giving signs that she’ll come down on the side of the U.S. over China, if she’s forced to choose.

Whether that’s enough to prevent Donald Trump from sweeping her up in the punitive tariffs he’s threatened in his second term is another matter.

As Sheinbaum ...Read more

Nathaniel Smith was having dinner with his 24-year-old niece when her phone buzzed with a text message.

It buzzes all day, but this time, something was different.

“She said, ‘Look what I got,’ and showed it to me,” said Smith, the founder and CEO of the Partnership for Southern Equity, an Atlanta nonprofit.

The message said she had �...Read more

On the evening of Election Day, Kamala Harris’ campaign was touting high turnout on college campuses in key swing states.

With polls closing, lines at University of North Carolina campuses in Charlotte and Wilmington were several hours long, the vice president’s campaign said. Earlier in the day, the wait to cast ballots was one to two ...Read more

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