The Senate is poised to hold a vote to confirm Pete Hegseth, President Donald Trump's nominee to serve as secretary of defense, late Friday evening.

The Senate was struggling to muscle Pete Hegseth’s nomination as defense secretary toward confirmation ahead of a vote late ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Senate is set to decide as soon as Friday night whether to confirm Forest Lake native Pete Hegseth to lead the Department of Defense, bringing an end to what has been a ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., USA — U.S. Sen. Ruben Gallego said Friday he will not support confirming President Donald Trump's pick to ...

The Senate advanced the nomination of Pete Hegseth as President Donald Trump's defense secretary Thursday on a largely ...

With two G.O.P. senators opposed, Pete Hegseth, President Trump’s pick for defense secretary, can afford to lose only one ...

The Trump administration is moving to potentially eliminate a Defense Department office tasked with helping commanders reduce civilian deaths from military operations. At such a critical moment in US ...

For the last 50 years, almost every nominee to lead the Pentagon has been a consensus pick who drew lopsided margins of ...

The vote comes after the Senate narrowly advanced Hegseth's nomination to lead the Pentagon on Thursday, with two Republicans ...

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

The Department of Justice is embracing a nineteenth-century case that denied citizenship to Native Americans to try to ...