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WASHINGTON — Republican senators may have confirmed Pete Hegseth as the nation’s 29th defense secretary, but as Pentagon scandals keep stacking up, powerful U.S. senators are refusing to even ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Washington this week did not result in a ceasefire deal for the Gaza war, despite U.S.

When House Speaker Mike Johnson gifted to President Donald Trump the gavel used to enact the Republicans' tax breaks and spending bill, it was a memorable moment at the White House ...

Lawmakers on Capitol Hill stayed up late to finalize President Trump's rescissions package, which ultimately passed with a narrow 51 to 48 vote early this morning. Scripps News Group national ...

As Mike Waltz, President Donald Trump’s nominee for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, appears before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Tuesday for his confirmation hearing, focus returns ...

General request: As U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth moves to eliminate at least 20% of the U.S. Air Force’s active-duty four-star general positions, three Ohio Republican congressmen are ...

Right before the 'Signalgate' scandal, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth intensified a campaign to identify leaks, which ...

The Signal episode — in which Waltz, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other high-level officials faced intense criticism — didn’t come up at the hearing for more than an hour.

President Trump has emerged as the most powerful president of either party in decades, wielding enormous clout within the GOP especially on Capitol Hill, where Republicans have rammed through his ...

Mike Waltz, the former national security adviser who left his position in May in the wake of the Signal chat controversy in March, will face a confirmation hearing Tuesday on Capitol Hill for his ...

Two recent decisions have put President Donald Trump at odds with some of his supporters on and off Capitol Hill. Some members of the Make America Great Again movement disagree with the president ...