(WASHINGTON) -- Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Wednesday released a rendering of a commemorative coin featuring President Donald Trump, saying that the U.S. Mint will begin striking the $1 piece to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the sig...

(WASHINGTON) -- Jay Clayton, President Donald Trump's pick to serve as director of national intelligence, faced repeated questions from Democrats on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence during his confirmation hearing on Wednesday about whe...

(WASHINGTON) -- Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday as he seeks confirmation to secure his role on a permanent basis.Blanche is facing quest...

(WASHINGTON) -- U.S. Supreme Court Justices Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett made a rare appearance before Congress on Tuesday to pitch lawmakers on new security enhancements for the Supreme Court even as they fielded criticism about t...

(WASHINGTON) -- Darline Graham, Lindsey Graham's sister, was officially sworn in to the Senate on Tuesday afternoon to finish the remainder of her late brother's term.Republican Chuck Grassley, the president pro tempore of the S...

(WASHINGTON) -- Secretary of State Marco Rubio is preparing to host delegations from more than 70 countries this week for a gathering focused on addressing what the Trump administration describes as the overlooked threat posed by "the resurgence o...

(WASHINGTON) -- President Donald Trump said on Monday he wants Lindsey Graham's sister, Darline Graham Nordone, to be his temporary replacement in the Senate.South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster announced around the same time as Trump's post...

(WASHINGTON) -- Lindsey Graham, a longtime Republican senator from South Carolina, who had become one of President Donald Trump's staunchest political allies, died on Saturday after a "brief and sudden" illness, his office said in a statement. He...

(SOUTH CAROLINA) -- The suspensions of eight Apache pilots who flew low over the South Carolina coast on July Fourth were lifted Friday, according to the South Carolina National Guard, just hours after Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth publicly ca...

(WASHINGTON) -- President Donald Trump said in a social media post Friday morning that he "will not sign" the bipartisan housing reform package, which he ...

(WASHINGTON) -- Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch disputed the scathing July 4 report released by the White House, w...

(WASHINGTON) -- The Air Force earlier this week said 135 airmen who were initially told they had earned promotions will not receive those promotions after the service discovered a scoring error on a required promotion exam....

(WASHINGTON) -- Former U.S. Olympian David Hearn appeared in D.C. Superior Court on Thursday and pleaded not guilty through his attorney to the felony charge he faces for allegedly damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.Hearn was sea...

(NEW YORK) -- The Secret Service urged President Donald Trump to fly out of Turkey on the old Air Force One instead of the newly retrofitted Qatari-gifted plane out of an abundance of caution amid the escalation with Iran, multiple sources familia...