WASHINGTON – The Senate confirmed former Rep. Sean Duffy as the next secretary of transportation on Tuesday, marking a return to public office for the northwestern Wisconsin Republican after a ...

Washington — The Senate voted to confirm Scott Bessent as treasury secretary on Monday ... some of which are set to expire at year's end, the "single most important economic issue of the ...

Much of the opposition to former Fox News host Pete Hegseth, whom President-elect Donald Trump has nominated to serve as defense secretary, has centered on allegations that he has abused women and ...

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be Secretary of Homeland Security, is sworn in before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee for her ...

Photo: Tom Williams/Zuma Press WASHINGTON—Pete Hegseth, a former Army National Guardsman and Fox News host, was on track to be narrowly confirmed by the Senate as defense secretary, overcoming ...

The Senate is set to hold its final confirmation vote Friday on President Trump's embattled pick for secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth. CBS News political reporter Taurean Small has more.

Incoming Trump officials have tapped Dorothy Fink, an endocrinologist and career civil servant, as the interim secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, according to three people ...

Leading tech firms have helped to develop a set of safety expectations for artificial intelligence tools in the classroom, the Government has announced. Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson will ...

By Katie Glueck Jocelyn Benson, the Democratic secretary of state of Michigan, on Wednesday announced a run to succeed the term-limited Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, plunging into a high-profile and ...

Trump, who has nominated two people so far to lead the Education Department, did select as acting secretary Denise Carter, who was acting chief operating officer of the department’s Office of Federal ...

Donald Trump has appointed the youngest ever White House press secretary in history after a 27-year-old landed the coveted job. Karoline Leavitt will serve as Trump's press secretary and will be ...