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The Senate on Thursday confirmed former Texas Gov. Rick Perry as the next energy secretary, as lawmakers stepped up the pace of filling President Trump's Cabinet.

How will Sessions and Trump handle this? Special prosecutor or special counsel?

Democrats and a Republican senator prowled the Capitol on Thursday hunting for the draft GOP health care bill, using a show of histrionics to try embarrassing Speaker Paul Ryan and other Republican leaders who vowed just this week to be transparent in their efforts to repeal and replace the law.

Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel on Thursday tore into a Democratic congressman for a “disgusting” and “offensive” joke made at White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway's expense.

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer gave full backing to Attorney General Jeff Sessions Thursday amid criticism over the former senator's newly revealed conversations with the Russian ambassador, telling Fox News he was “100 percent straight” about his actions.

Embracing a stronger defense, President Donald Trump intends to meet with sailors and shipbuilders on an aircraft carrier in Virginia to promote his plans for a major military buildup.

A federal judge on Thursday dismissed the U.S. government's securities fraud lawsuit against Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who still faces criminal charges of duping wealthy investors.

Several senators on both sides of the aisle rushed to back Attorney General Jeff Sessions Thursday as he sought to blunt resignation calls from senior Democrats, following revelations he met last year with Russia's ambassador – a detail omitted from recent congressional testimony.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke arrived on horseback for his first day of work Thursday.

President Donald Trump gained another member of his Cabinet Thursday when the Senate voted 58 to 41 to confirm Ben Carson to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) by a 58 to 41 vote.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke (ZIN'-kee) arrived on horseback for his first day of work Thursday.

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer accidentally gave President Trump a new job briefly Thursday, when his official Twitter account accidentally tweeted that the Senate had confirmed Trump as the next Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

North Dakota is expected to gain upwards of $100 million annually in tax revenue once oil begins running through the Dakota Access pipeline—that’s according to an Associated Press report released on Thursday.

Russia's sale of fighter jets to UAE highlights the Kremlin's growing use of the Eurasian nation’s defense industry as a diplomatic tool and one that appears bent on currying favor among countries with longstanding U.S. ties.

Democratic officials made “a mistake” by picking a 72-year-old ex-governor from a state that voted for President Trump to deliver the party's response to Trump’s congressional speech, a prominent House Democrat said Wednesday.

The White House is standing by Attorney General Jeff Sessions in the face of mounting Democratic calls for his resignation – after reports showed he spoke with the Russian ambassador, despite testimony that he did not have “communications” with Moscow.

Homeland Security reportedly only has a fraction of what it would cost to build President Trump’s wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Former President George W. Bush on Wednesday warned against an "isolationist tendency" in the U.S. that he called dangerous to national security, at a time when the current president has faced questions about its commitment to the country's international partnerships.

White House officials-- in the final days of Barack Obama’s presidency—worked to spread information about possible communications between associates of then-candidate Donald Trump and Russians to, in part, set up a future investigation.

Sen. Marco Rubio was evicted from his Florida office because the weekly protests against the Republican that have occurred outside the building upset the other tenants.