The Senate intensifies confirmation hearings for Trump’s Cabinet picks, with Scott Bessent, Doug Burgum, and Lee Zeldin defending their qualifications. Meanwhile, Pam Bondi faces further scrutiny in a ...

The Senate has confirmed Marco Rubio as secretary of state, giving President Donald Trump the first member of his Cabinet.

Doug Collins, a former GOP lawmaker and Trump's pick to run the Department of Veterans Affairs, picked up nearly full support in the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee. The panel voted 15-1, with Sen.

U.S. Senate committees on Thursday approved President Donald Trump's choices to run energy and environmental policy - officials who, if backed by the full Senate, will seek to maximize fossil fuel ...

Interior secretary nominee Doug Burgum, proposed Environmental Protection Agency director Lee Zeldin, Treasury secretary nominee Scott Bessent and Housing secretary nominee Scott Turner all faced ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order that aims to ease regulation on cryptocurrency, seeking to ...

Doug Burgum, the interior secretary pick, echoed Mr. Trump’s push for more fossil fuel production, while Lee Zeldin, the prospective head of the Environmental Protection Agency, sought to ...

None of the nominees appearing Thursday before the Senate – Scott Bessent at Treasury, Doug Burgum at Interior and Lee Zeldin at the Environmental Protection Agency – appear to be in any ...

Adam Schiff posed the same question to Lee Zeldin in a separate hearing for ... At Interior Secretary-designate Doug Burgum's confirmation hearing Thursday, the former North Dakota governor ...

Good afternoon and happy Thursday, readers! The big news of the day is from Doug Burgum’s and Lee Zeldin’s nomination hearings. But there’s also news on the future of Russia sanctions, and more.