The Senate today confirmed John Ratcliffe as CIA director, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead America’s premier spy agency and his second nominee to win Senate approval. Ratcliffe was director ...

CT Sen. Richard Blumenthal plans to raise a bill to boost transparency and require notifications during the pardons and ...

The Senate invoked cloture on Pete Hegseth's nomination for Secretary of Defense with a 51-49 vote, ending the filibuster. Hegseth will face the final confirmation vote on January 25. Invoking cloture ...

Brooke Rollins, the president’s nominee to lead the Agriculture Department, will appear before the Senate agriculture committee on Thursday.

Brent Bozell, founder of the Media Research Center, is now poised to oversee VOA and other federally-funded international broadcasting.

A federal judge on Jan. 23 temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's executive order seeking to change the interpretation of the 14th Amendment, which grants birthright citizenship.

Pete Hegseth, President Donald Trump’s nominee for defense secretary, paid $50,000 to the woman who accused him of sexual assault in 2017 , according to answers he provided to a senator during his con ...

Pete Hegseth is closer to Senate confirmation as Trump's Defense secretary despite controversy and allegations of serious impropriety.

Sen. Mazie Hirono's partisan streak at confirmation hearings continued Thursday as the lone 'no' vote in a committee hearing to recommend VA nominee Doug Collins for confirmation.

Picked to lead the housing agency under Trump, the former Texas House member tells senators there is a housing crisis. Democrats say they want to act only after a background check.

Hegseth was facing opposition from Democrats and even a few Republicans. So, does he have the votes to become the Secretary ...