President-elect Donald Trump (R) announced television commentator, author, and retired National Guard officer Pete Hegseth as his nominee for secretary of defense on November 12, 2024. This ...

The confirmation process includes several rounds of investigation and review, beginning with the submission of a personal financial disclosure report and a background check. The nominee is then ...

President Donald Trump used his inaugural address to repeat his threat to take back the Panama Canal over possible China ...

The departures are common when a transition takes place, but it is now happening more quickly and on a larger scale than ...

China’s vice president held meetings with the U.S. vice president-elect and U.S. business leaders, including Elon Musk, in Washington on the eve of Donald Trump’s inauguration, as the two major powers ...

The Trump administration would begin formal international engagements this week when Marco Rubio — expected to be confirmed ...

Andrii Sybiha, Ukraine's Minister of Foreign Affairs, has held a phone conversation with Antony Blinken on his final day as ...

Donald J Trump will be sworn in as the 47th US President on Monday, January 20. By Tuesday analysis will shift from expectations to the realities of the second four-year Trump administration.

President Biden’s longtime aide rallied scores of nations to defend Ukraine, but then became a villain to the many critics of ...

Biden says his administration successfully ‘managed’ frosty China relations to prevent outright conflict. Critics say he didn ...

Outgoing Secretary of State Antony Blinken told The Associated Press that he hopes the incoming Trump administration will ...

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Antony Blinken bade farewell to the State Department on Friday, urging career staffers to ...