With ready orders and an energy czar, Trump plots pivot to fossil fuels

As President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team plans his energy and environment agenda, it is relying on two seasoned former Cabinet leaders and fossil fuel lobbyists to dramatically reshape the agencies charged with protecting the nation’s air, water, climate and public lands, according to six people familiar with the matter.

‘It was a total nightmare’

LOS ANGELES — Firefighters in Southern California expected a reprieve from extreme weather conditions Friday as they continued to battle a fast-moving fire that has already destroyed over 130 structures and damaged nearly 90 others.

RFK Jr reviewing resumes for top Trump health jobs, sources say

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the former independent presidential candidate, is reviewing candidate resumes for the top jobs at the U.S. government’s health agencies in Donald Trump’s incoming administration, a former Kennedy aide and a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday.

Putin praises Trump, says Russia is ready for dialogue

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday congratulated Donald Trump on winning the U.S. election, praised him for showing courage when a gunman tried to assassinate him, and said Moscow was ready for dialogue with the Republican president-elect.

Trump will return to power with a more expansive agenda

WASHINGTON — As he declared victory, President-elect Donald Trump said that his mission now was nothing less than to “save our country.” His version of doing that involves an expansive agenda that would reshape government, foreign policy, national security, economics and domestic affairs as dramatically as any president in modern times.