Senators voted 52-48 to confirm Gabbard, with Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) joining all 47 Democrats in opposition.

Patrick Healy, the deputy Opinion editor, hosted an online conversation with the Times Opinion columnists Michelle Goldberg ...

Senate Commerce Committee Chair Ted Cruz (R-Texas) told reporters the Black Hawk helicopter had turned off its automatic ...

A key safety system was turned off in a US army helicopter when it crashed into an American Airlines flight last week, ...

The increasingly bitter fight over the United States Agency for International Development is testing Washington's bipartisan ...

The House Education committee voted Monday night to make school board candidates declare their party affiliation when running ...

Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., voted against Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence Wednesday—after she cleared an ...

Hundreds of families are in mourning after an American Airlines regional jet collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter ...

Arizona Democrats are proposing legislation to repeal many of the state's abortion restrictions, arguing that voters' approval of abortion rights in November should guide policy. Republicans, who now ...

Democrats had been “sluggish” in their response ... referring to the former House speaker and deficit hawk. “This is a level of cost-cutting with no regard for the impact on everyday people ...

The Senate on Thursday confirmed Russell Vought as the next director of the powerful White House budget office, installing a ...

The Texas Republican and longtime fiscal hawk has a GOP trifecta, the House Budget Committee gavel and an opportunity to make ...