Sen. Marco Rubio, President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead the State Department as secretary of state, answered questions ...

Ohio Lt. Gov. Jon Husted was officially sworn into the United States Senate on Tuesday. The swearing in marked the beginning ...

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With Trump's presidential inauguration just around the corner, review the history and meaning of Inauguration Day.

The icebreaker's new home — based on the findings of the Coast Guard’s urgently completed port study — will be Alaska’s ...

The Department of Justice says it will "vigorously defend" Donald Trump's executive order ending birthright citizenship, ...

President Biden says he believes the amendment has met the requirements to be enshrined in the Constitution. Its history has ...

President Donald Trump has outraged environmental activists by announcing the United States will withdraw from the Paris climate accord for the second time.

President Donald Trump has signed a number of executive orders his first day of office — including one which seeks to strip certain newborns of their U.S. citizenship, effectively going against an ...

A veteran of the Foreign Relations Committee, Rubio is widely seen as one of Trump's least controversial Cabinet picks and is ...

Politics doesn't just unfold in documents and legislation—it also takes shape off the record in social environments.

Representative Elise Stefanik was in Washington D.C., facing a confirmation hearing to become U.S. ambassador to the United ...