The Senate Thursday advanced President Donald Trump's nomination of Pete Hegseth to serve as secretary of Defense, despite ...

South Dakota governor Kristi Noem was confirmed as the United States’ new Secretary of Homeland Security ... Tim Kaine (D-VA), Andy Kim (D-NJ), Gary Peters (D-MI), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH ...

Confirmation hearings for Donald Trump’s cabinet picks begin this week, starting with Trump’s choice for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth ...

Washington ― Defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth clashed ... discussions of using the active-duty military inside the United States, including setting up immigrant detention camps or policing ...

Democratic Sen. Gary Peters announced Tuesday that he won’t run for re-election in Michigan in 2026, creating a pivotal open-seat election next year in one of the most tightly divided swing ...

During defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth’s confirmation hearing on Tuesday, Republican lawmakers were so focused on three specific letters — DEI — that they forgot to correctly spell ...

Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) ripped into his fellow senators over their questioning of Secretary of Defense nominee Pete ... Mullin took specific aim at Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) blasting Hegseth ...

Chairman Chuck Grassley and Ranking Member Dick Durbin said Trump didn’t follow the law when he removed 18 inspectors general ...

“Do you think that the way to raise the minimum standards of the people who serve us is to lower the standards for the secretary of Defense?” said Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.). But even those ...

President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Hegseth, a former Army infantry officer, to be the next secretary of defense ... But later in the hearing, Gary Peters (D-Mich.) argued that Hegseth ...

Gary Peters ... than the average United States senator,” he said. Sen. Markwayne Mullin, Oklahoma Republican, said he searched the qualifications for defense secretary and found little ...

Gary Peters ... about other topics, Peters spoke disfavorably of the nomination of Peter Hegseth, a military veteran and former Fox News anchor put forth for secretary of defense, although he ...