The Senate voted 59 to 34 to confirm Ms. Noem, the governor of South Dakota, as the new head of the Department.

A new analysis that began under the Biden administration is released by the C.I.A.’s new director, John Ratcliffe, who wants ...

Senators Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins and Mitch McConnell voted against confirming Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary ...

The White House appeared to have violated a law that requires giving Congress 30 days’ notice and detailed reasons before ...

Before their release, the hostages, four female soldiers, were led onto a stage in Gaza City, surrounded by masked, uniformed ...

The hostages and 200 prisoners were released in the second swap of the Gaza cease-fire deal, which went into effect this ...

A state legislative committee has advanced a resolution asking that the power to regulate marriage be returned to the states.

Gov. Gavin Newsom faces what may be his greatest political test and leadership challenge. He planned to greet President Trump ...

The shooting on Monday in Vermont near the Canadian border followed the surveillance of an armed couple who dressed in black ...

Minnesota’s top court ruled that Republicans had overstepped their authority by conducting business in the Legislature even ...

The March for Life on Friday brought together a movement invigorated by some early moves of the second Trump administration.

Border enforcement agencies have spent billions assembling surveillance tools to track and find people. These could be ...