Mariann Edgar Budde – who begged Trump to show mercy to LGBTQ+ youth and immigrants – was the bishop who helped lay Matthew Shepard to rest.

The U.S. views the Panama Canal as a strategically critical access point into the Pacific and new Secretary of State Marco ...

A Princeton and Harvard-educated former combat veteran, Hegseth went on to make a career at Fox News, where he hosted a ...

Pete Hegseth’s inexperience could put troops’ lives in danger, warned the combat veteran who sits on the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Donald Trump has downplayed violence faced by US Capitol police during the January 6 attack as “minor incidents.” On his first day as the 47th president on Monday (20 January), the Republican granted ...

Pete Hegseth, Trump's Pentagon nominee, tells senator he paid $50,000 to woman who accused him of 2017 sex assault.

He has offered a vision for a more aggressive spy agency, and his focus on the threat from China is widely shared by Republican and Democratic lawmakers.

Day Four of the Trump administration opens in Washington, D.C. with a raft of Senate hearings including Trump's picks for the Departments of Energy and Interior as well as the EPA and VA. Also on the ...