Politics
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who was sworn in on Saturday, issued a statement outlining his top priorities for the Pentagon under President ...
Democrats are only three seats away from taking back control of the House next year. But they face a major challenge: Their path runs almost exclusively thro...
President Donald Trump fired multiple independent federal watchdogs, known as inspectors general, in a Friday night purge, removing a significant layer of ac...
Joe Biden promised Americans a four-year break from thinking about the presidency every day. That hiatus ended at 12:01 p.m. Monday, when Donald J. Trump too...
Chuck Grassley is old school — and that’s not just because he’s 91 years old.The Iowa Republican is the longest-serving current member of the U.S. Senate, an...
The Senate confirmed Kristi Noem as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security on Saturday, voting to give President Donald Trump another Cabinet offic...
TORONTO — Doug Ford, the premier of Ontario, plans to rain economic punishment on Americans if President Donald Trump targets Canada in a trade war.Ford has ...
“I was okay with being a convict,” Jason Riddle told me this week, not long after learning that he was among the roughly 1,500 recipients of sweeping preside...
Dear Mr. Secretary,Tradition dictates that I begin by congratulating you on your confirmation. You seem like a man who appreciates frankness, and so I will s...
Mitch McConnell might not run the Senate anymore. But he made clear on Friday night that he still knows how to wield power.After days of meeting with silence...
LOS ANGELES — President Donald Trump began his day of disaster tours with raging threats that sent California officials into a tailspin. He ended it with a h...
The Trump administration plans to rejoin an international anti-abortion pact alongside countries such as Uganda, Saudi Arabia and Belarus, taking its first f...
President Donald Trump reached out his arms and embraced sometime nemesis California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday after stepping off the plane to tour fire-sc...
Donald Trump vowed on the campaign trail to slap tariffs as high as 20 percent on everything from cars to food when he took the White House.Four days into of...
President Donald Trump’s campaign-trail promise to leave abortion regulation to the states lasted just a few days into his presidency.He issued executive ord...
Former Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.), who stepped down from the leadership at the end of last year, cast a surprise vote Friday night agains...
Vice President Vance on Friday broke a Senate tie to confirm Pete Hegseth as President Trump's secretary of Defense, capping a bruising two-month fight over ...
The Department of Homeland Security has empowered federal immigration officials to bypass protections for hundreds of thousands of migrants who entered the c...
Vice President JD Vance told thousands of anti-abortion protesters gathered on the snow-dusted National Mall on Friday that President Donald Trump will be th...
Democrats and school officials infuriated by Donald Trump's plan to allow immigration arrests at school are torn. They want to fulfill a promise to shield st...
LOS ANGELES — President Donald Trump on Friday demanded concessions from California Democrats on two pet issues unrelated to the devastating Los Angeles Coun...
