As it weighs the nomination of Tulsi Gabbard for the position of Director of National Intelligence, the United States Senate faces a fundamental choice: Should it reject those like Gabbard who ...

President Donald Trump's suggestion of the U.S. taking control of the Panama Canal has a legal basis partly due to potential ...

Two appointed senators, with the significant failure rate of those appointees, might be the helping hand that Senate ...

Big tech energy needs, including for artificial intelligence, has elected officials giving nuclear power a serious reexamination ...

The Department of Justice is embracing a nineteenth-century case that denied citizenship to Native Americans to try to ...

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The Senate confirmed Scott Bessent as Treasury ... and said that he would “usher in a new Golden Age for the United States, as we fortify our position as the World’s leading Economy, Center ...

With Democrats opposed and some Republican votes wavering, the committee could employ unusual maneuvers to advance Trump’s ...

Bessent, a hedge fund manager, becomes the nation’s 79th Treasury secretary. He will lead President Trump’s economic agenda.

Pete Hegseth has vowed to bring his “warrior” ethos to the Pentagon. Democrats had assailed him as unfit for the job, and his ...

WASHINGTON – The Senate narrowly confirmed Pete Hegseth ... McConnell said in a statement that leading the United States Armed Forces is "a massive and solemn responsibility." ...

At 82 and no longer the Senate GOP leader ... marks a dramatic political shift in the United States’ national security policy and leadership. This is an excerpt from a full story.