Maine's senior U.S. senator told reporters Wednesday that 'the president has the right to nominate whomever he wishes, but ...

Trump announced several controversial cabinet nominees, including Democrat-turned-Republican Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence and Fox News host Pete Hegseth for secretary of defense ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump has had few defenders in Congress as reliable as Matt Gaetz, who has thundered at one ...

Republicans went to court in Pennsylvania on Thursday amid vote counting in the U.S. Senate election between Democratic Sen.

Some Senate Republicans have balked at Trump's picking Matt Gaetz to serve as his attorney general. And then there's Tommy ...

For all the drama generated every four years by Cabinet appointments, defeat of a nominee by a vote in the Senate is ...

WASHINGTON — Republicans in the Nov. 5 election took over the White House, the U.S. Senate and as of late Wednesday, the ...

President-elect Donald Trump is continuing to pick more allies for Cabinet positions. Follow for live updates.

Calls are growing from prominent Republican leaders for the House Ethics Committee to share its report on former Rep. Matt ...

Republican Senators John Thune of South Dakota, John Cornyn of Texas, and Rick Scott of Florida were all vying for the top ...

It’s a big middle finger to those on the so-called progressive left and others in the Biden camp, who essentially had a ...

The Republican president-elect's victory and the GOP takeover of the Senate leaves just seven weeks of Democratic control of ...