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Pete Hegseth has spent the week on Capitol Hill trying to reassure Republican senators that he is fit to lead President-elect Donald Trump’s Department of Defense in the wake of high-profile allegations about excessive drinking and sexual assault

Matt Gaetz may be done with the House of Representatives, but his former colleagues aren’t through with him yet

Matt Gaetz may be done with the House of Representatives, but his former colleagues aren’t through with him yet

The House has shut down Democrats’ efforts to release the long-awaited ethics report into former Rep. Matt Gaetz

The Associated Press has learned that the federal Bureau of Prisons is permanently closing its “rape club” women’s prison in California and will idle six facilities in a sweeping realignment after years of abuse, decay and mismanagement

Russia’s top military officer called his U.S. counterpart to give advance warning of Russia’s drills in the Mediterranean Sea

It’s DOGE time at the U.S. Capitol

It’s DOGE time at the U.S. Capitol

French President Emmanuel Macron is to address the nation following the resignation of ousted Prime Minister Michel Barnier

The acting director of the Secret Service says the agency is “reorganizing and reimagining” its culture and how it operates following an assassination attempt against Donald Trump on the campaign trail in July