The Senate Finance Committee will hold a confirmation hearing next Wednesday on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination to serve as Health and Human Services secretary.

Congress passed the first bill of the new Trump era on Wednesday, delivering on the president's immigration promises with legislation to push for detention and deportation of criminal migrants -- including those with relatively low-level offenses such as shoplifting.

Diversity, equity and inclusion policies are on the ropes after President Trump's executive order ending all affirmative action in federal contracting and shuttering DEI offices inside federal agencies.

President Trump on Wednesday signed an order sending 1,500 more troops to the U.S.-Mexico border, marking the start of what could become the largest military action in the southwest in more than a century.