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Mr. Regan, if confirmed, will take over an agency central to achieving the new administration's climate agenda. WASHINGTON -- President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. has selected Michael S. Regan, North [...]

Byline: Juliet Eilperin and Brady Dennis WASHINGTON - President-elect Joe Biden has tapped Gina McCarthy, who ran the Environmental Protection Agency under President Barack Obama and now leads a major [...]

Byline: Paul Farhi The head of the agency that oversees Voice of America removed the international broadcasting service's interim director on Tuesday, in a move apparently aimed at asserting greater [...]

Byline: Dan Lamothe The Trump administration installed loyalists on a Pentagon advisory panel Friday, naming former campaign officials Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie among the new appointees to the Defense [...]

Her chief of staff will be Tina Flournoy, who had the same job with President Bill Clinton after he left office. WASHINGTON -- Vice President-elect Kamala Harris has chosen Tina [...]

Christopher Waller will be the fifth Trump pick on the Fed's seven-member Board of Governors. WASHINGTON -- Christopher Waller, nominated by President Trump to the Federal Reserve's seven-member Board of [...]

Byline: Chelsea Janes Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris will name Tina Flournoy Chief of Staff, the transition team announced Thursday, tapping a trailblazer with decades of Washington experience to help run [...]

The Defense Department said Christopher Maier resigned, but his supporters say he was forced out of a job leading military efforts to combat ISIS. WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon policy official [...]

Byline: Robin Givhan President-elect Joe Biden has been precise and deliberate as he sketches the foundational story of his White House. He has cast his narrative with veterans who are [...]

Mr. Biden said he would name Mr. Kerry to a cabinet-level climate post, a role laden with political and diplomatic challenges in the post-Trump era. WASHINGTON -- When John Kerry [...]

Alejandro N. Mayorkas, a former deputy homeland security secretary, would be tasked with restoring faith in a department that carried out the Trump immigration agenda. WASHINGTON -- In between leading [...]

Progressives wonder whether Avril D. Haines, the president-elect's pick for director of national intelligence, is bold enough. But she believes a good process effects good government. WASHINGTON -- President-elect Joseph [...]

John Kerry, the former secretary of state, will be the international climate czar, signaling the new administration's commitment to fighting climate change. WASHINGTON -- President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. plans [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Popp Berman President-elect Joe Biden's recently announced transition teams are being closely scrutinized for clues about the future administration. For the most part, they mix centrists and progressives [...]

President Trump fired Christopher Krebs, a senior cybersecurity official, via Twitter on Tuesday. ''Usually to get rid of Krebs, Trump uses a little comb and some medicated shampoo,'' Jimmy Kimmel [...]

The appointments of Jennifer O'Malley Dillon, Representative Cedric Richmond and Steve Ricchetti suggest the importance that the president-elect is placing on surrounding himself with people he trusts. WASHINGTON -- President-elect [...]

Michael Kuperberg was told he would no longer oversee the National Climate Assessment. The job is expected to go to a climate-change skeptic, according to people familiar with the changes. [...]

The new appointments came as the military operation in the northern Tigray region entered its fifth day, with the United Nations saying the stoppage of air and road access was [...]

Byline: BILL CURRY, Staff OTTAWA -- Lead The federal government has appointed Ehren Cory as the next CEO of the Canada Infrastructure Bank under sharply reduced terms for performance pay. [...]

The administration is imposing new limits on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that would undercut action against global warming. WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration has recently removed the chief [...]

Chad Wolf, the acting secretary of homeland security, defended his record at a Senate confirmation hearing and flatly denied he suppressed intelligence that could have embarrassed President Trump. WASHINGTON -- [...]

Byline: Eric Yoder WASHINGTON - A Senate committee on Wednesday set aside a planned vote on the Trump administration's controversial nominee to head the Office of Personnel Management amid growing [...]

Byline: Andrew Freedman and Jason Samenow The Trump administration has chosen David Legates, an academic who has long questioned the scientific consensus that human activity is causing global warming, to [...]

Byline: Nick Miroff WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump said in a tweet Tuesday that he plans to formally nominate Chad Wolf to be the secretary of the Department of Homeland [...]

Byline: Steven Mufson WASHINGTON - The Trump administration withdrew the controversial nomination of William Pendley to head the Bureau of Land Management on Saturday amid signs that the choice would [...]

Byline: Dan Lamothe WASHINGTON - A retired Army general whose controversial nomination for a senior civilian position at the Pentagon was put on hold last week has withdrawn from consideration [...]

Brian Murphy's office compiled reports of protesters and journalists who were covering the Trump administration's response to unrest in Portland, Ore., last month. WASHINGTON -- The head of the Department [...]

Byline: Nick Miroff WASHINGTON - Matthew Albence, the top U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement official, announced his retirement in a statement Friday, leaving an agency at the forefront of President [...]

Kenneth L. Marcus was nominated as the head of the Office of Civil Rights in the face of a chorus of opposition. He leaves after a tenure marked by dissension [...]

Byline: Eva Dou Beijing appointed a veteran in quashing popular unrest to head its contentious new national security agency in Hong Kong, as it moves to enforce draconian restrictions on [...]

Byline: THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO -- Lead TORONTO The Ontario Securities Commission says it has appointed a new vice-chair and parttime commissioner. Wendy Berman will serve a one-year term as [...]

The census, which is constitutionally mandated to count every person in the country, has traditionally been carried out in a rigidly nonpartisan fashion. WASHINGTON -- The Census Bureau said on [...]

Byline: Christian Davenport After a top NASA official improperly contacted a senior Boeing executive about its bid to win a contract potentially worth hundreds of millions of dollars, the company [...]

Byline: Devlin Barrett WASHINGTON - The Trump administration announced Friday night that Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman, whose office has handled a number of investigations involving the president or his [...]

Byline: Seung Min Kim WASHINGTON - A senior State Department official who has served in the Trump administration since its first day is resigning over President Donald Trump's recent handling [...]

Brian A. Benczkowski's tenure is marked in part by the department's handling of a whistle-blower complaint into the president's dealings with Ukraine. WASHINGTON -- The head of the Justice Department's [...]

Byline: DAVID PARKINSON, Staff Lead Stephen Poloz had only been Governor of the Bank of Canada for a few months in the late summer of 2013, when he gave a [...]

Byline: Emre Kelly, FLORIDA Today, USA TODAY NETWORK BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. - The chief of NASA's human spaceflight directorate resigned Monday, a surprising development from an agency scheduled to launch [...]

Byline: Carolyn Y. Johnson Moderna, the Massachusetts biotechnology company behind a leading effort to create a coronavirus vaccine, announced promising early results from its first human safety tests Monday. The [...]

Byline: Devlin Barrett, Seung Min Kim, Spencer S. Hsu and Katie Shepherd WASHINGTON - A burgeoning insider trading investigation scrutinizing members of the U.S. Senate led the chairman of its [...]

Ezra Cohen-Watnick's latest position in the Trump administration is as deputy assistant secretary of defense for counternarcotics and global threats. WASHINGTON -- Ezra Cohen-Watnick, the hawkish adviser who has popped [...]

Kenneth J. Braithwaite, a retired admiral nominated to be the Navy secretary, cited poor leadership in the service's handling of recent scandals and accidents. WASHINGTON -- President Trump's choice to [...]

Byline: Colby Itkowitz Leading congressional Democrats expressed rage over President Donald Trump's decision Friday night to fire the intelligence community inspector general who raised concerns about the president's conduct that [...]

Byline: Carol Morello The head of the U.S. Agency for International Development will step down next month from the nation's premier arm for humanitarian aid amid a snowballing pandemic. Mark [...]

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- President Trump on Friday pushed out Mick Mulvaney, his acting White House chief of staff, and replaced him with Representative Mark Meadows, a stalwart conservative [...]

It is not clear if the Republican congressman from Texas, whose name was floated for the post last year, can win Senate confirmation. WASHINGTON -- President Trump announced on Friday [...]