In 2022, Scott became the first Republican senator to challenge McConnell for GOP leader during his 18-year tenure in the job ...

An armed man arrested at the U.S. Capitol said he planned to kill Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Secretary of Defense ...

President Donald Trump has kicked off his second term with a flurry of executive actions on immigration, the economy, DEI and ...

Iowa's Republican U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst said Tuesday she will vote to confirm Pete Hegseth to lead the U.S. Department of Defense, ending weeks of speculation about whether she would stand in ...

The South Dakota governor will oversee a sprawling agency that is essential to national security and a clampdown on illegal ...

The vote came amid concerns about his qualifications to lead the Pentagon amid allegations of heavy drinking and abusive ...

U.S. Sen. Rick Scott stood by President Trump’s embattled Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth in a nail biter Friday night on the Senate floor.

Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth recently survived a Senate procedural vote enabling him to be considered for the ...

Texans have been tapped to run the CIA, the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Department of Agriculture.

WASHINGTON − At Pete Hegseth's confirmation hearing for Secretary of Defense on Tuesday, senators picked relentlessly at his widely espoused – then quickly reversed – view that women don't ...

Republican Louisiana U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy said Friday he will vote to confirm Pete Hegseth as President-elect Donald Trump's secretary of defense. Hegseth, a combat veteran and former Fox News ...