WASHINGTON – Since President Donald Trump returned to office, GOP Sen. Susan Collins has voted against confirming Defense ...

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will on Wednesday become the first member of the new Trump administration to visit NATO, where the allies are keen to understand how America now plans to influence ...

During a Feb. 10 visit to Western North Carolina, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced a plan that he said would expedite repairs to Interstate 40.

Efforts by conservatives to pressure Republican senators to support President Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees have largely ...

Pete Hegseth, confirmed by the Senate as Defense secretary Friday night in a 51-50 vote, with Vice President JD Vance breaking the tie, takes over leadership of the Pentagon at a time of great ...

Vice President Vance has quickly become President Trump’s liaison to the Senate, which has paid dividends as the GOP-led body ...

GOP senators are terrified over the prospect of facing primary challengers funded by Elon Musk if they stick their necks out by opposing President Trump’s agenda. The White House has ...

News & Observer readers comment on President Trump, Elon Musk, the D.C. plane crash, DEI, Robert Kennedy Jr., Mark Robinson, ...

Thom Tillis has faced a difficult choice as his reelection grows nearer: be the independent thinker he’s long said he would be, or fall in line behind President Donald Trump. We’d hoped he might at ...

Patel is a controversial nominee, having long raged against the so-called Deep State and prioritized his loyalty to Trump.

Senate Democrats are bracing to stay in the chamber overnight to make the case against the nomination of Russell Vought to ...

ANALYSIS: Republicans avoid going into detail about what Trump meant by his remarks about Gaza and Israel, Eric Garcia ...