WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate is muscling Pete Hegseth’s nomination as defense secretary toward confirmation Friday, ...

Readers criticize the vote on the defense secretary nomination. Also: President Trump and tariffs; silencing health officials ...

It is the first serious test of Donald Trump’s newly invigorated strongman model of governance and of whether he can continue ...

A Senate panel voted along party lines to approve Pete Hegseth's nomination to be the next defense secretary, moving his nomination along to a full Senate vote.

Defense Secretary-designate Pete Hegseth and Attorney General pick ... adding that former New York Rep. Lee Zeldin’s nomination to helm the Environmental Protection Agency will be considered ...

Americans deserve a clean environment “without suffocating the economy,” Lee ... Zeldin repeatedly declined to commit to ...

Trump's picks to lead four federal agencies testified without the flashes of anger that marked Pete Hegseth and Pam Bondi's ...

Pete Hegseth is, by every measure ... Tulsi Gabbard, Sean Duffy, and Lee Zeldin. “A reminder that these background checks are not designed to be punitive,” one Senate aide told me.