Pete Hegseth, President-elect Trump's choice for Defense secretary, on Tuesday emerged largely unscathed from an at times blistering confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee. Democratic lawmakers on the panel took aim at Hegseth’s lack of experience leading an agency as large and complex as the Pentagon, claims related to his treatment of women...
President-elect Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) met for a round of golf on Tuesday, according to a source familiar with the matter, as the Florida governor mulls a replacement for Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Trump’s secretary of State nominee. A number of names have been floated for the post, including Florida Attorney General...
President Biden has officially designated two new national monuments in California. The White House announced last week that Biden would designate the Chuckwalla National Monument and the Sáttítla Highlands National Monument — protecting a combined 848,000 acres of particular significance to Native American tribes in the region. However, the designations were postponed until this week. ...
The federal government has run a $711 billion deficit over the last three months of 2024, the Treasury Department reported Tuesday, underscoring the worsening budget picture that President Biden will turn over to President-elect Donald Trump.
Some 388 noncitizens cast ballots in the District of Columbia's local elections in November, according to data released Tuesday by Judicial Watch that suggests the city's groundbreaking experiment in expanding its voter pool saw only tepid interest.