Hegseth is an Army National Guard veteran and according to his website served in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

WASHINGTON, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Republicans' lock on power in Washington next year will allow President-elect Donald Trump to ...

President-elect Donald Trump and President Joe Biden, longtime political rivals, met on Wednesday for the first time since ...

A unified government under Donald Trump may offer investors reprieve from the bruising battles around the U.S. debt ceiling ...

Republican majorities in both chambers of the U.S. Congress will give Donald Trump the power to achieve many of his goals ...

WASHINGTON, Nov 13 (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump's Republican Party will control both houses of Congress when he ...

U.S. Senate Republicans will gather behind closed doors on Wednesday to pick their next leader in the face of a public ...

Donald Trump has tasked Elon Musk with setting up a panel to streamline the U.S. government. Although the president-elect has ...

The U.S. budget deficit jumped nearly four-fold to $257 billion in October, a figure inflated by several one-off factors, the ...

U.S. Senator Rick Scott was eliminated in the first ballot in the contest for Senate majority leader, according to a source.

WASHINGTON, Nov 12 (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's Republicans on Tuesday inched closer to winning a majority ...

The jury that convicted Robert Menendez of corruption was allowed to review improper evidence during deliberations, but the ...