President-elect Donald Trump, in the first version of his 100-day action plan to make America great again, promised to spend $1 trillion in infrastructure investment over 10 years. He said that the plan would involve leveraging public-private partnerships and private investments through tax incentives, adding that the program would be revenue-neutral. A few days later…

President Barack Obama granted another round of commutations and pardons Monday, commuting the sentences of 153 people and pardoning 78 others. Among them is Kendrick Tyshawn Akins of Coppell, Texas, who was sentenced to life for conspiracy to manufacture, distribute or possess cocaine, cocaine base or marijuana. Obama commuted his sentence to 240 months of…

Marla Recio Carbajal got her master’s degree in international business this year from the University of California, San Diego. But now she’s the founder and president of Havana Reverie, an upscale event-planning firm that caters to Americans visiting Cuba for everything from corporate events to weddings. She traveled from Havana to Washington, D.C., last week…

Senate Republican leaders say they’ll move immediately to start repealing the Affordable Care Act, often known as  Obamacare, next month. But they don’t yet have a clear plan to replace the 2010 law the Obama administration billed as “comprehensive health insurance reforms that put consumers back in charge of their health care.” President-elect Donald Trump…

Over the past week, several mosques in California, Rhode Island, South Florida and Georgia have received a hateful letter praising President-elect Donald Trump and urging an ethnic cleanse of Muslims in the United States. “There’s a new sheriff in town—President Donald Trump,” the letter reads in part. “He’s going to do with you Muslims what…