Senate Republicans on Wednesday elected John Thune to be the next Republican leader to succeed Mitch McConnell in a position ...

U.S. Senate Republicans elected John Thune of South Dakota to be the Majority Leader starting in January, opting for a seasoned and well-respected lawmaker despite pressure by supporters of Donald ...

President-elect Donald Trump announced he selected former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz to serve as attorney general.

Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins of Maine said Trump is free to pick who he wants for the roles, but that the Senate still ...

Tulsi Gabbard, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to lead the U.S. intelligence services, in 2022 endorsed one of Russia’s main justifications for invading Ukraine: the existence of dozens of ...

Several Republican senators could prevent President-elect Donald Trump's controversial Cabinet picks from being confirmed.

Texas Democrats are sorting through what went wrong for them after their shining hopes turned to ash in November — and what it means for their long-term plans to take power. The party was ...

For the large part the transition to another Trump White House already has triggered slack-jawed reactions to some of the ...

Donald Trump is considering recess appointments to skip over Senate confirmations for some of the most powerful positions in ...

Prominent legal commentator David Lat suggests how to prevent the former Florida congressman from becoming the next attorney ...

In January this year, Donald Trump said that if he were reelected president, it would be “highly unlikely” he’d appoint Ron ...

We have different foreign policy positions at times, but I’m going to do with Trump what I did with everybody: let you pick ...