The Senate on Friday night voted to confirm Pete Hegseth as defense secretary after Vice President JD Vance stepped in to cast the tiebreaking vote. Hegseth’s nomination had been hampered by allegations of misconduct.

The Senate confirmed Pete Hegseth as the nation’s defense secretary in a dramatic late-night vote. Republicans pushed back questions about Hegseth's qualifications amid allegations of heavy drinking and aggressive behavior toward women.

Hegseth, through his attorney, firmly denied the latest allegations, which come as his nomination to lead the Pentagon is set to go before the Senate this week.

The vote came amid concerns about his qualifications to lead the Pentagon amid allegations of heavy drinking and abusive behavior toward women.

A Princeton and Harvard-educated former combat veteran, Hegseth went on to make a career at Fox News, where he hosted a weekend show. Trump tapped him as the defense secretary to lead an organization with nearly 2.1 million service members, about 780,000 civilians and a budget of $850 billion.

Democrats harshly criticized President Donald Trump for a news conference Thursday in which he said that his predecessors and diversity were to blame for Wednesday night’s fatal collision of an Army helicopter and an American Airlines passenger plane landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport.

Democratic support for the would-be HHS secretary has dimmed while Republican Bill Cassidy now sounds skeptical.

Three of President Donald Trump’s most controversial nominees faced sharp questions in the Senate during hearings Thursday from Democrats as well as several Republican senators in what amounted to the most direct skepticism from GOP senators over Trump’s nominees to date.

A cat-themed art show drew visitors to the Huntington Ale House on Saturday. Dozens of paintings by artist Robbie Poore lined the second floor of the business, featuring the felines in a number of art styles,

We urge MDHHS to withdraw its contract termination notices and return to the negotiating table with the state’s public mental health system in good faith.

A woman who allegedly had a four-year relationship with Sean “Diddy” Combs claimed that she saw the disgraced music mogul months before his arrest. The woman, identified by the pseudonym Nicole, broke her silence in a Rolling Stone interview published on Tuesday, January 28. She alleged that she last visited Diddy, 55, in July 2024

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s first day at the Pentagon is expected to include an array of executive orders, including “removing DEI inside the Pentagon, reinstating troops who were pushed out