The Pentagon on Monday swore in Robert G. Salesses as the acting secretary of Defense while President Trump's nominee Pete Hegseth awaits Senate confirmation. Salesses was sworn in just after noon, according to a defense official. NBC News first reported on his swearing-in. Salesses is the deputy director of the Washington Headquarters Services at the...

Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), the two leaders of the now-disbanded Jan. 6 committee, thanked former President Biden for a pardon they said was “not for breaking the law but upholding it.” Just hours before leaving office, Biden announced he would issue pardons for all the members of the committee...

Resolutions of disapproval fast-track decisions by limiting public hearings and debate.

The long-pushed Laken Riley Act could be one of the first bills to hit President Trump's desk in his new term.

Politics is replete with comebacks – Richard Nixon, Winston Churchill and Vladimir Lenin make the cut. And so does President Donald Trump.

A swath of high-profile Democrats warned President Biden against issuing preemptive and blanket pardons to those seen as Trump's political foes before pardoning Fauci and Milley.

Democrats sounded off after President Trump was inaugurated for his second term on Monday.

Trump tapped Waltz, a House lawmaker and former Green Beret, in the fall to serve as his national security adviser.

President Biden issued a preemptive pardon to Gen. Mark Milley on Monday, capping off a presidency marred by the chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal in 2021.

President Trump said on Monday that a "tide of change" is sweeping the U.S., moments after he was sworn in as the 47th president of the United States.