Elaine Chao

A new report shows that the Transportation Department’s watchdog wanted Elaine Chao to be criminally investigated late last year when she was transportation secretary, but was rebuffed.

Wolf cited “ongoing and meritless court rulings regarding the validity of my authority as Acting Secretary” for his resignation.

Trump Cabinet members Betsy DeVos and Elaine Chao cited the riot at the Capitol, which aimed to stop Joe Biden’s confirmation as president, for why they quit.

The riot at the Capitol fueled by words from President Trump has led to calls for his removal from office, two weeks before Joe Biden is set to take office.

Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao tweeted a letter of resignation on Thursday afternoon in response to Wednesday’s mob at the U.S. Capitol

The Trump administration on Wednesday unveiled its most recent round of guidelines for autonomous vehicle makers that rely on voluntary standards despite calls for specific regulations. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao announced the proposed guidelines in a speech at the CES gadget show in Las Vegas, saying in prepared remarks that “AV 4.0” will ensure U.S. leadership in developing new technologies….

UPS has won government approval to operate a nationwide fleet of drones, which will let the company expand deliveries on hospital campuses and move it one step closer to making deliveries to consumers. Many regulatory obstacles remain, however, before UPS — or other operators who are testing drones — can fill the sky over cities and suburbs with drones carrying...

Nonstop Acela service is here. Starting Monday, Amtrak has one nonstop train per day to take travelers between D.C.’s Union Station and New York’s Penn Station.

There will soon be a faster way to get between D.C. and New York by train, but the schedules may be of greater benefit to New York residents than to D.C. residents.

Three Democratic senators are calling on President’s Donald Trump’s nominee for U.N. ambassador to clarify that she will put U.S. interests ahead of her own financial interests when it comes to climate change. The Democrats say Kelly Craft, who was nominated as U.S. ambassador to the U.N. last week, has invested more than $60 million in oil companies and other...

The United States remain one of a few nations to not ground the Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft from flight following two high profile crashes that killed all passengers onboard in Ethiopia and Indonesia.

Much of the world, including the entire European Union, grounded the Boeing jetliner involved in the Ethiopian Airlines crash or banned it from their airspace, leaving the United States on Tuesday as one of the few remaining operators of the plane involved in two deadly accidents in just five months. The Federal Aviation Administration’s acting head Daniel K. Elwell said...

Airline pilots on at least two U.S. flights have reported that an automated system seemed to cause their Boeing 737 Max planes to tilt down suddenly. The pilots said that soon after engaging the autopilot on Boeing 737 Max 8 planes, the nose tilted down sharply. In both cases, they recovered quickly after disconnecting the autopilot. As described by the...

Tilting trains? It might sound strange, but Amtrak’s new Acela line trains that lean into curves and bends will shave time off trips, and they plan to roll them out over the next couple of years.

Protesters confronted Sen. Mitch McConnell and his wife, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, about family separations at the U.S.-Mexico border as the couple left an event at Georgetown University.

First Lady Melania Trump has added bowling to the list of activities that about 30,000 attendees can enjoy at this year’s Easter Egg Roll.

President Donald Trump is donating his fourth-quarter salary in 2017 to the Transportation Department to help address the nation’s infrastructure. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao is accepting the check from the president in the amount of $100,000. The donation announced Tuesday in the White House briefing room comes a day after Trump released a plan to rebuild crumbling roads, bridges and...

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao said Tuesday that “of course” she has her own “me too” story, referring to the hashtag women have used to voice their experiences with sexual harassment or assault. “I think that is a dirty little secret that a lot of women have had for a long time. Many of us — especially I think...

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan on Thursday announced $9 billion in projects to add lanes to Interstate 270, the Capital Beltway and the Baltimore-Washington Parkway to ease congestion in the traffic-choked suburbs of the nation’s capital – a plan that includes toll lanes.

The 16 miles of track will connect Montgomery and Prince George’s counties.