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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 ...Read more

When I was offered an internship at a sanctuary for farmed animals some years ago, I jumped at the chance. I’ve always had an affinity for animals, and I imagined myself cuddling cows and brushing goats— and I did get ...Read more

They still don’t get it.

While President-elect Donald Trump is working overtime assembling his White House Cabinet, Democrats in some circles are still concocting ways to elevate Kamala Harris.

They need to follow the ...Read more

Of the many ways Donald Trump’s return to the White House promises to upend federal policy, few are more predictable or damaging than the U-turn he and his allies threaten to take on climate change and environmental ...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.

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When most people think about grief, they associate it with the death of a loved one. They reflect on past memories, shared experiences and precious moments of life. It is natural for one to yearn for the past, the comfort ...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 ...Read more

The Democrats have some tough choices in front of them. With Vice President Kamala Harris, they ran a very strong candidate in an incredibly well-resourced campaign, in which hundreds of prominent members of the opposing ...Read more

The Middle East has long been a source of misery for Washington. It could be a land of opportunity for Donald Trump.

In his first term as president, Trump brokered diplomatic détentes between Israel and several Arab ...Read more

My children are going through a "Mary Poppins" phase — the 1964 version starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke. Especially during these rainy days, we've found ourselves inside on weekend afternoons, singing along to ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The Moms Bonded By Grief Botanical Garden of Healing is officially open.

The rectangular patch of donated space memorializing Philadelphians lost to gun violence stands at the corner of 51st Street and ...Read more

As Donald Trump rolled out his Cabinet choices last week, the strategy that consigliere Steve Bannon described during the president-elect's first term naturally popped to mind: "Flood the zone with s—." Overwhelm the ...Read more

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 ...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 ...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 ...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, ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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” ...Read more