They may be the most important government officials you can’t name. Their decisions have the potential to alter election results. Scholars have referred to them as the “guardians of the democratic ...

WASHINGTON — While Secretary of State Antony Blinken huddled with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday at the Kirya — Israel's version of the Pentagon — air raid sirens warned citizens in ...

Senate confirmation hearings are slated to begin on Jan. 14, 2025, for Pete Hegseth, whom President-elect Donald Trump has chosen to serve as the next secretary of defense. It’s a massive job, broadly ...

After weeks of controversy amid accusations of sharing sensitive information about military operations in unsecured chats with unauthorized recipients, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is reportedly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pete Buttigieg has been a particularly consequential secretary of the Department of Transportation. During his tenure, the agency ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on April 21, 2024. The original video can be viewed here. What does the secretary of commerce do? Until now, mainly promote U.S. businesses abroad ...

The moment will forever be seared in my memory. It was December 1, 2022, at President and Dr. Biden’s France state dinner. That evening was the first time the administration felt a dinner was safe to ...

Deb Haaland had just begun her second term in the U.S. House of Representatives in January 2021, elected from her native New Mexico. She was one of the first Indigenous women to be elected to Congress ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CHAVEZ-DEREMER, Lori Image by History, Art & Archives, US House of Representativesweb Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer stepped ...

Sonderling is filling in as acting secretary after Lori Chavez-DeRemer announced she was leaving in April Donald Trump announced he is nominating Keith Sonderling to serve as US secretary of labor, a ...

The Coast Guard Leadership Modernization Act would establish a Secretary of the U.S. Coast Guard position, mirroring similar ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is on Capitol Hill this week, trying to convince senators that they should greenlight him to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, ahead of expected confirmation ...