The unusually narrow confirmation came after questions from members in both parties over Hegseth’s qualifications.

Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE), the first transgender Congresswoman, told MSNBC host Symone Sanders-Townsend that President Trump is taking the country "back to the Gilded Age." SANDERS-TOWNSEND: It is. I ...

President Donald Trump's new Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, whose controversial nomination received "no" votes from three GOP Senators before advancing via Vice President JD Vance's tie-breaking ...

President Donald Trump has declared a national emergency on the border with Mexico, saying “America’s sovereignty is under ...

The address is typically a vehicle for an incoming commander in chief to outline a vision for the coming four years and lay ...

President Donald Trump is expected to deliver remarks in Las Vegas as the administration pushes his immigration agenda.

Agencies are gripped with uncertainty about how to implement the blizzard of new policies as workers frantically try to ...

Feeling burned by the holdover of Obama administration appointees during his first go-around, Trump swiftly exiled Biden ...

Many in Minnesota’s federal workforce — from border patrol workers up north to agency managers awaiting directives from Washington — are on edge after a flurry of executive actions during President ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has been invited to address a joint session of Congress on March 4, Republican House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson said on Saturday.

WASHINGTON — The Senate confirmed Kristi Noem as homeland security secretary on Saturday, putting the South Dakota governor ...

Noem's full name is Kristi Lynn Arnold Noem and she was born in 1971 in Watertown, in east central South Dakota. The city is ...