The Senate on Wednesday confirmed former Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.) to take the helm of the Environmental Protection Agency ...

(AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.) From left, Lee Zeldin, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency nominee; Kash Patel, ...

The former New York congressman has little experience in environmental policy. He is expected to follow orders to weaken ...

It is the first serious test of Donald Trump’s newly invigorated strongman model of governance and of whether he can continue ...

The Senate on Wednesday confirmed former Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.) 56-42 to take the helm of the Environmental Protection ...

(AP Photo/Alex Brandon) Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth, center, attends the Commander in Chief Ball, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington, after the 60th Presidential Inauguration. (AP ...

A Senate panel voted along party lines to approve Pete Hegseth's nomination to be the next defense secretary, moving his nomination along to a full Senate vote.

Democrats repeatedly called Pete Hegseth unfit to be secretary of ... to fill a senior position for the administration. 10 a.m.: Lee Zeldin, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency ...

former Fox News host and former National Guard officer Pete Hegseth. With another incomplete, half-baked and secret FBI background check related to alleged sexual assault and excessive drinking ...

Pete Hegseth will take center stage on Tuesday as he testifies before the Senate as President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of defense—and the controversial nominee is expected to ...

Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Department of Defense, is set to face his Senate confirmation hearing on Tuesday. “There’s big issues of character that have ...

Pete Hegseth is, by every measure ... Tulsi Gabbard, Sean Duffy, and Lee Zeldin. “A reminder that these background checks are not designed to be punitive,” one Senate aide told me.