AP Online Headlines - Washington

President-elect Donald Trump has named Troy Meink, a former Air Force KC-135 tanker navigator and former deputy of the National Reconnaissance Office, as his choice to serve as the top civilian leader for the Air Force

Lee Zeldin, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency, is promising to preserve a clean environment “without suffocating the economy.”

The U.S. has imposed sanctions on the leader of Sudan’s military in a devastating war that is spreading famine in that country

Donald Trump wants to make Hollywood “bigger, better and stronger” and has chosen Mel Gibson, Jon Voight and Sylvester Stallone to help

More than a dozen Democratic state attorneys general said Thursday they plan to defend two gun regulations now being challenged in court, including one banning devices that enable semiautomatic guns to fire more quickly

Donald Trump has given voters a hefty list of promises, and many of them come due right away

The vast majority of Americans are about to get an extended taste of frigid Siberian weather

The Justice Department is rescinding its protocol for federal executions that allowed for single-drug lethal injections with pentobarbital

Secretary of State Antony Blinken was interrupted as he gave his final comments from his department’s press briefing room

Secretary of State Antony Blinken has defended Biden administration policies on Israel's war with Hamas after a ceasefire agreement in Gaza was reached