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Pete Buttigieg held his first official event as transportation secretary on Friday

The Senate has approved Pete Buttigieg to be transportation secretary, which makes him the first openly gay person confirmed to a Cabinet post

President Joe Biden’s nominee for secretary of transportation, Pete Buttigieg, testified before the Senate Commerce committee on Thursday.

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

President-elect Joe Biden officially introduced Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Ind., as his nominee for transportation secretary. Buttigieg would be the first openly gay person confirmed by the Senate to a Cabinet position.

President-elect Joe Biden is expected to pick former South Bend, Indiana, mayor Pete Buttigieg to head the transportation department

Say goodbye to emotional-support animals in airplane cabins

The Trump administration is backing away from a threat to ban all flights to the U.S. by Chinese airlines

The government is telling airlines and passengers how it will enforce rules governing animals that people bring on planes. The Transportation Department said Thursday that airline employees can bar any animal they consider a safety threat. Airlines, however, can be punished if they ban an entire dog or cat breed, such as pit bulls.

Two people briefed on the matter say the Trump administration is banning U.S. flights to all Cuban cities but Havana in the latest move to roll back Obama-era easing of relations.

The Trump administration miscalculated potential damages from train derailments when it canceled an Obama-era rule requiring the installation of more advanced brakes by railroads hauling explosive fuels, The Associated Press has found. A government analysis used by the administration to justify the cancellation omitted up to $117 million in estimated future damages that could be avoided by using electronic brakes,...

Federal regulators have rejected the idea of setting minimum standards for airline seats and legroom as a safety measure. The Federal Aviation Administration said Tuesday that it saw no immediate safety issue that requires new regulations. It cited seven recent accidents in which passengers were able to evacuate.

U.S. airlines are getting better at many things except getting you to your destination on time. They are losing fewer bags. Complaints are down. And on the anniversary of a man getting dragged off a plane because a crew member needed his seat, airlines are bumping fewer passengers. That’s the upshot of a report issued by academics who analyze numbers...

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...

The railroad industry is playing down expectations that a safety technology that could have prevented recent deadly train crashes will be in operation across the United States by the end of the year. Indeed, freight and commuter rail officials speak as if there never was any plan to complete their work on the technology known as positive train control, or...

The U.S. government is urging the world airline community to ban large, personal electronic devices like laptops from checked luggage because of the potential for a catastrophic fire. The Federal Aviation Administration said in a paper filed recently with a U.N. agency that its tests show that when a laptop’s rechargeable lithium-ion battery overheats in close proximity to an aerosol...

Two aviation officers involved in the infamous United Airlines dragging incident at O’Hare International Airport have been fired from the job, officials revealed Tuesday.

Federal officials have decided not to punish United Airlines over an infamous incident in which a passenger was dragged off an overcrowded plane. The Transportation Department said it found no evidence that United violated the passenger’s civil rights and not enough evidence that it violated rules regarding bumping passengers.

Maryland has launched its pilot program for a phone-based digital driver’s license.

The D.C. transportation department is looking at ways to make New York Avenue safer for pedestrians, cyclists and drivers. News4’s Adam Tuss talks with people about their experiences on the busy road, and what they want the city to do.