Incoming President Donald Trump announced key senior staff appointments to the White House National Economic Council, including a face familiar to some in Maryland. Andrew Lyon, a former University of Maryland economics professor with decades of experience in government and private sector

The Legislative Black Caucus unveiled a sweeping agenda Thursday that includes a number of issues that are back after they were debated in previous sessions but didn't pass. Caucus members said the measures are still worth fighting for.

The president-elect has reportedly tasked a New Jersey congressman with drafting an executive order to halt offshore wind development. Just how damaging it could be for plans off the Maryland coast remains to be seen.

The Maryland Department of Education organizes a White House visit for those named Teacher of the Year in every Maryland County. This year, Debbie Reynolds from Wicomico Middle School was chosen. We want to hear your good news,

I can vividly remember the first time I saw a bald eagle in the wild. I was about nine or ten, helping my grandfather clear weeds around his bright-yellow farm house in Ingleside, on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.

Donald Trump has not yet taken office, but prominent Democrats have already started weighing in on one of the party’s most pressing strategic questions: is there room to work with the new administration?

Some of the jobs roped into the American Climate Corps have funding locked down for much of Trump’s term. Zampaglione’s program, the Forest Corps, has $15 million in funding from the U.S. Forest Service that should last it five years, according to Ken Goodson, the director of AmeriCorps NCCC, which recruits young adults for public service.

Plus: Relief for taxpayers impacted by wildfires, itemizing deductions, civil forfeiture programs, Direct File, Tax Cuts and Jobs Acts, tax filing deadlines, and more

President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration will be held indoors Monday at the Capitol due to dangerously cold temperatures. Follow for live updates on the final days of the presidential transition.

News organisations are girding themselves for a legal assault from Trump and federal agencies. Read more at straitstimes.com.

On immigration, Biden and Trump run to opposite extremes. Biden reversed virtually all of Trump's tough border policies and the resulting rush of illegal immigrants is a matter of public record. But Trump's promised mass deportations would wreck the U.S. economy.

Inauguration festivities will begin in full force Saturday as President-elect Trump and his allies — and protesters — arrive in Washington head of Monday’s inauguration of the 47th president