An event for Kari Lake in Iowa was conveniently canceled after wayward Sen. Joni Ernst voted to confirm Trump's Defense ...

Lake's homecoming to the state initially came as Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, faced intense backlash from President Donald Trump ...

Readers criticize the vote on the defense secretary nomination. Also: President Trump and tariffs; silencing health officials ...

The aggressive posture, inspired by Trump, meant going after not only Democrats, the media and Hegseth’s accusers — but also ...

Allies of President Donald Trump have been quick to threaten primary challengers for Republican senators who don’t back Trump ...

Pete Hegseth, a former combat veteran and TV news ... He was also questioned about the issue by Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst, an Iraq veteran and a survivor of sexual assault. Hegseth reiterated an ...

More Trump nominees with potentially rocky paths to confirmation face hearings in the Senate this week, including Tulsi ...

In his cabinet picks, Trump is revealing not just an apathy towards sexual assault and harassment, but seemingly a ...

Sen. Joni Ernst, the chair of the DOGE caucus, is rolling out a new bill that targets excess disbursements in the "food stamp" program.

North Korea pulled out in 2003 to pursue nuclear weapons. Pete Hegseth, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be secretary of defense, testifies before a Senate Committee on Armed ...

South Korean officials interpreted Hegseth's comment as showing possible U.S. recognition of North Korea as a nuclear weapons state, a status granted only to five countries under an international ...