WASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday confirmed John Ratcliffe as CIA director, giving President Donald Trump the second member of his new Cabinet.

Trump's Week One pardons of killer cops, Jan. 6 rioters and a drug lord have one thing in common: the embrace of political violence.

Pete Hegseth’s nomination as secretary of defense has continued to barrel toward confirmation, additional stream of details of his patent unfitness for office be damned. Indeed, Senate Republicans ...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) slammed the Laken Riley Act in a speech on the House floor on Wednesday, pointing out that some House members may have financial incentives to vote for the ...

Find out why California Republicans are pushing back against conditions on federal disaster aid for wildfire victims.

Donald Trump promised to be “a dictator on day one.” Instead, his barrage of executive orders is largely an organized pursuit of his campaign pledges — with a noticeable lack of action on tariffs and ...

Dan Osborn, a former union president and strike leader, almost won a Senate seat in deep-red Nebraska as a populist independent. Osborn has now started a PAC to recruit, train, and support more ...

Republican Alabama Sen. Katie Britt will reintroduce legislation Thursday to secure the southern border. The bill, known as the WALL Act, would appropriate $25 billion to complete the construction of ...

Around this time two years ago, as the Republican majority in the House got to work, among the earliest priorities for the party was a new, GOP-friendly investigation into the Jan. 6 attack. The ...

California is advising health care providers not to write down patients' immigration status on bills and medical records and telling them they don't have to assist federal agents in arrests.

But it’s not just that much of his administration is from Florida. Many of them also have rather, well, Florida qualifications.