What does this role do? Advises on climate and environmental issues and enforces environmental laws. Here's what happened at the hearing Zeldin declined to say how the Trump administration might try to change or roll back environmental regulations ...

Senate hearings are scheduled this week for several of Trump’s picks for the Cabinet. While many are rapidly gaining support for their confirmation, the remaining still have to go before the committees overseeing the agencies Trump wants them to run.

Authorities in South Carolina say a missing 13-year-old is believed to be in danger. The Richland County Sheriff's Department posted on social media that Ka'Niyah Baker was last seen on Aubernleaf Drive in Hopkins on Jan. 13. More news: High school coach in South Carolina arrested for what he tried to bring into gym, police say

Declaring climate change “real,” former New York Congressman Lee Zeldin faced questions Thursday ... The guy is smart as a whip,” South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said.

President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet nominees Scott Bessent, Doug Burgum, Lee Zeldin and Scott Turner ... a hedge fund billionaire from South Carolina, told the Senate Finance Committee Thursday ...

Lee Zeldin faces questions about climate change ... 10:30 a.m.: Scott Bessent, Treasury Department The billionaire money manager from South Carolina takes questions from members of the Senate ...

Laken Riley Act: President Trump signed his first bill into law, and it closely tracked his agenda on immigration. The bill directs the authorities to detain and deport immigrants who are accused — not yet convicted — of specific crimes if they are in the country illegally. Read more ›

President Donald Trump said he’s signing an executive order to instruct the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security to prepare a 30,000-person migrant facility at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba.

Energy nominees advance, Trump to press OPEC, and Trump talks FEMA WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY: Good afternoon and happy Thursday, readers! Congress is inching closer to confirming the rest of President Do

President Donald Trump took a combative tone at times as he spoke remotely Thursday to an international audience of business leaders, politicians and other elites at the World Economic Forum’s annual event in Davos,

Lee Zeldin has an ambitious agenda for the Environmental Protection Agency, even beyond undoing years of damage from President Joe Biden and various states — but he’ll be consulting lawyers