WASHINGTON – The Senate narrowly confirmed Pete Hegseth on Friday as secretary of Defense, a win for President Donald Trump's new administration after its 44-year-old nominee fended off ...

Budget chairman Graham says the Senate will take the reins to advance its plan. Senate Budget Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham said he wants to plow forward next week on a Senate-led funding ...

Senate Democrats are struggling to deal with a rising tide of anger inside their party as President Donald Trump and billionaire ally Elon Musk run roughshod over federal agencies, with House ...

Republican Senator Mitch McConnell fell down the stairs in the Senate on Wednesday, multiple media outlets reported. "Senator McConnell is fine," McConnell's spokesperson told Newsweek in a statement.

Texan senator and member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ted Cruz has lashed out at SA over its position on Taiwan. He says SA is going out of its way to alienate the US. This after SA asked ...

US senator Ted Cruz says SA is 'going out of its way' to 'alienate' US amid Taiwan embassy standoff - US Senator Ted Cruz criticised South Africa's decision to relocate the Taiwanese embassy, seeing ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cleared a key hurdle Tuesday after a Senate panel voted to advance his nomination to be health and human services secretary to the full chamber. In a 14-13 vote along party ...

President Trump’s pick for US Attorney General, Pam Bondi, inched closer to Senate confirmation after legislators on Monday voted to end debate over her nomination. Lawmakers voted 52-46 along ...

Thom Tillis (R., N.C.) cast the fateful 50th “yes” vote to confirm Pete Hegseth as defense secretary, he approached the Senate’s new Republican leader and told him he was a “no.” That ...

The opening shot is being been fired in the new Congress' crypto push with a plan for a Tuesday introduction of a stablecoin oversight bill from Senator Bill Hagerty. The legislation would set up ...

Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump's pick for health secretary, moved closer to securing the top health job on Tuesday after winning a senior Republican senator's backing with pledges to protect ...

Kennedy Jr., the controversial environmental lawyer turned public health critic, cleared his first hurdle on Tuesday to become the nation’s top health official when the Senate finance committee ...