Three of President Donald Trump’s most controversial nominees faced sharp questions in the Senate during hearings Thursday ...

The Republican senator’s childhood bout with the disease has informed his ardent support for vaccines amid increasing skepticism of them within his party.

Michigan Democrat Gary Peters won’t be the only senator to retire this cycle, at least according to almost a century of ...

Russell Vought, President Trump’s pick to head the White House budget office, told senators in his confirmation questionnaire ...

Senate Republicans are under growing pressure from prominent former Republican officials to reject President Trump’s pick to ...

They’re mad because McConnell had the audacity to speak the absolute truth — that Pete Hegseth, who allegedly drinks too much ...

On Friday night, Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell strode onto the Senate floor and, without a moment’s hesitation, voted against ...

Matthew Brackley of Waldoboro and Benjamin Bowden from Orrington were among the 15 Mainers who were pardoned for their role in the January 6th riots.

More Trump nominees with potentially rocky paths to confirmation face hearings in the Senate this week, including Tulsi ...

Dave McCormick's vote helped Hegseth overcome three GOP defections for be confirmed as secretary of defense. Democrat John ...

Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky voted against President Donald Trump's nominee to be secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth.

Sen. Mitch McConnell accused new defense secretary Pete Hegseth of having "no substantial observations on how to defend ...