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Senate Republicans say Pete Hegseth, President-elect Trump’s choice to head the Defense Department, faces a very tough path to confirmation in the Senate and...
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President Joe Biden and his White House team are all hands on deck to thwart a massive Chinese hack of several U.S. telecommunications providers — but Beijin...
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Pete Hegseth went on the offense in Congress and in the media Wednesday, trying to salvage a nomination to lead the Pentagon that has been pushed to the prec...
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Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) said Wednesday that he is supportive of Pete Hegseth’s nomination to lead the Pentagon as long as no more “surprises” emerge durin...
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Senators are fuming over the Biden administration’s response to a recent massive Chinese government-linked hack of U.S. and global telecommunications systems...
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The idea of making Ron DeSantis secretary of Defense isn’t going over well with everyone at Mar-a-Lago.While those close to Trump have stressed that the deci...
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President Joe Biden’s senior aides are conducting a vigorous internal debate over whether to issue preemptive pardons to a range of current and former public...
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Transgender-rights advocates seeking to overturn a Tennessee law banning some gender-affirming care for minors got a chilly reception from the Supreme Court’...
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House Democrats are poised to unseat several senior committee leaders, and Hakeem Jeffries is letting it happen.Rep. Raul Grijalva of Arizona, 76, announced ...
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A year ago, it seemed impossible that Donald Trump would consider tapping Ron DeSantis for a role in a potential second administration. Since the Florida gov...
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President-elect Trump’s nomination of Pete Hegseth to be secretary of Defense was listing badly but had not yet capsized on Wednesday evening. Hegseth...
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In the wake of President Joe Biden’s decision to issue a sweeping pardon to his son Hunter, who faced years in prison over tax charges and lying about his dr...
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President-elect Trump has tapped businessman and Army veteran Daniel Driscoll to be his secretary of the Army.  “As a former Soldier, In...
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House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday rejected a White House request to pass $24 billion in additional aid for Ukraine by the end of the year, saying any f...
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Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) said that he wants President-elect Trump's pick for Defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, to stop drinking as reports mount that the fo...
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Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) joked Wednesday that he’d consider confirming Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) as Defense secretary if he admits to th...
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Congressional Republicans are clashing over sweeping legislation on taxes, energy and immigration that will be the heart of President-elect Donald Trump’s le...
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Pete Hegseth, President-elect Trump's pick to lead the Defense Department, condemned the press for what he described as a "manufactured media t...
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NEW YORK — Former President Bill Clinton defended Joe Biden’s decision to pardon Hunter Biden on Wednesday, contending that the president’s son was facing to...
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This morning, I had an unsettling experience. I was invited onto MSNBC’s Morning Joe to talk from a studio in Washington, D.C., about an article I’d wri...
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Pete Hegseth told reporters on Wednesday that President-elect Donald Trump has told him to “keep fighting” as he faces serious doubts about his ability to ge...