WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth faced pointed questions Wednesday from Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill about the deployment of National Guard members and Marines in California ...

With a third Republican candidate entering the race for Kentucky's open U.S. Senate seat, the jockeying for President Trump’s ...

The 54-year-old has been frustrating Trump since the beginning of the president’s first term. The two are now fighting over ...

Feeling out of step with President Trump’s G.O.P., Senator Thom Tillis and Representative Don Bacon are deciding to retire.

The decisions illustrate how dissenting voices have little room in the GOP and complicate the party’s path to holding its ...

GOP Senate hopeful Nate Morris called Sen. Mitch McConnell “the nastiest politician in the history of America” at his first ...

Less than six months into U.S. President Donald Trump’s second term, his administration’s foreign policy has generated ...

Perhaps Charles Krauthammer—not a poet, but a deep and discerning student of politics—was closer to the truth: “Decline is a ...

During a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on June 18, 2025, Senator Tammy Duckworth harshly lambasted Pete Hegseth over his many failures as the secretary of defense.

The U.S. Army is now rolling out a new policy that disproportionately impacts Black soldiers, and one officer is questioning ...

Mr. Morris, a founder of a waste and recycling business, describes himself as the only political outsider in the field and an ...

He’s got some pretty rabid isolationists over at [the Department of Defense] — you could argue the vice president is in that ...