McConnell joined Senators Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski, moderates from Maine and Alaska respectively, in creating what ...

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

Readers criticize the vote on the defense secretary nomination. Also: President Trump and tariffs; silencing health officials ...

Three Republicans voted with every Democrat against Trump’s controversial pick to lead the Pentagon, forcing Vance to step in ...

Senators voted 51-49 to advance Hegseth's defense secretary bid, which has been mired in several controversies. Two ...

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.

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 nomination hearing on Tuesday ... million people with a budget of $850 billion,” Hegseth told Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.). “What I do know is that I’ve led men and women.

Awkward exchanges about the defense secretary hopeful’s past were plentiful as Democrats went after the first embattled Trump pick to face a confirmation hearing.

Hegseth is the fighter we need and the right ... and I’ll do everything I can to support their mission. Republican Rick Scott represents Florida in the United States Senate, is a member of ...

To his brotherhood within a theologically conservative, hard-right church coalition, Fox News host Pete Hegseth's ascension as President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Defense Department ...