President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Defense Department sat for a Senate confirmation hearing on Tuesday after ...

US senators set to grill Hegseth, who has Republican backing, over contentious past statements and controversies.

From the moment he rode down that golden escalator in Trump Tower nearly a decade ago, Donald J. Trump reshaped the nation’s ...

Pete Hegseth pitched himself as a "change agent" to lead the Defense Department while Democrats excoriated him as unfit ...

Ratcliffe, director of national intelligence for the final months of Trump's first term, goes before Senate Intelligence ...

Many of Trump’s nominees to serve in Cabinet and advisory roles are slated to appear this week for hearings before Senate ...

One by one, President-elect Donald Trump's hoped-for Cabinet is falling into place, even for his more controversial choices.

In a heated Senate confirmation hearing for Pete Hegseth, Sen. Tammy Duckworth grilled the proposed defense secretary over ...

Notably, Gabbard questioned the US intelligence community’s assessments that Assad was behind a deadly chlorine gas attack ...

Many of Donald Trump's Cabinet picks have been meeting with senators individually. Now, they'll go this week before the ...

Opposition to prospective nominees, along with time-consuming Senate rules, will slow floor action despite the Republican ...