The tactics are reminiscent of the ones taken the first time Trump entered the White House. At the time, Democrats homed in ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senators returned to the Capitol Monday for a late-evening session pushing ahead on President Donald ...

Joni Ernst announced this week she will vote to confirm Pete Hegseth as the nation’s next secretary of defense, it underlined ...

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

Iowa’s U.S. senators met with Trump nominees last week while representatives acted on bills relating to undocumented ...

Action on others, including former combat veteran and Fox News host Pete Hegseth for defense secretary ... of American foreign policy,” Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, the senior-most Republican ...

The vote broke the Senate filibuster and sets up a final confirmation vote, which will likely take place Friday. Democrat John Fetterman voted against advancing Hegseth for secretary of defense.

A Princeton and Harvard-educated former combat veteran, Hegseth went on to make a career at Fox News, where he hosted a weekend show. Trump tapped him as the defense secretary to lead an organization ...