President-elect Donald Trump’s decision to skip FBI background checks for some federal appointees is concerning some national ...

Senate Republicans are rejecting a proposal floated by some advisers to President-elect Trump to take the job of conducting ...

A former federal prosecutor complained that Donald Trump's attorney general nominee Matt Gaetz would have no chance of passing a basic background check for even a low-level job at the Department of ...

The president takes the credit and blame, and Congress hides in the background. Congress has failed to act on immigration, ...

McCaskill said Thursday that 11 senators could stand in Gaetz's way of being appointed as Trump's attorney general.

But that in itself raises a troubling question. If Trump intends to nominate these kinds of fellow Republicans, why is he insistent that the new Senate allow him to make recess appointments? For those ...

By Evan Perez, Zachary Cohen, Holmes Lybrand and Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team is bypassing traditional FBI background checks for at least some of his ...

The Pentagon released a report that concluded there is no verifiable evidence of extraterrestrial beings among nearly 300 ...

Republican senators signaled Thursday that they plan to closely scrutinize allegations of wrongdoing dogging former congressman Matt Gaetz.

Senate Democrats are rushing to confirm Biden’s final nominees for federal judge positions before the party loses the chamber majority and Donald Trump returns to office in January. There are ...

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President-elect Donald Trump has named Sen. Marco Rubio as his choice for secretary of state. Here are five things to know ...