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Pete Hegseth has spent the week on Capitol Hill trying to reassure Republican senators that he is fit to lead President-elect Donald Trump’s Department of Defense in the wake of high-profile allegations about excessive drinking and sexual assault

Biden is concerned that Trump officials like Kash Patel could make good on threats to go after political opponents

Jim McDonnell said his tenure will involve high engagement with the community. LAPD doesn't stop people or take action related to their immigration status

The Democrat is calling on the Senate Armed Services Committee to demand two groups "preserve and produce" the records, including credit card transactions

Senior aides to Biden are reportedly deliberating whether to issue preemptive pardons to public officials who could face investigation under a Trump presidency.

Let's hit the reset button on American democracy. Is it moral? I don't know, but it gives us a chance to start over

Acting director of the US Secret Service, Ronald Rowe, and House Republican Pat Fallon shout at each other during congressional hearing

Updates on Pete Hegseth's nomination for defense secretary and other key appointments in the upcoming administration.

As President-elect Donald J. Trump prepares to implement sweeping policy changes affecting American immigration and immigrants, one of the issues under scrutiny by his allies appears to be birthright citizenship – the declaration in the 14th Amendment to the Constitution that anyone born on U.S. soil is a U.S. citizen,…