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Republican Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen issued an executive order to impose definitions for male and female, and he is backing ...

Patel, 44, was not in Trump’s orbit when the Repubican was first elected to the White House. He had toiled as a public ...

Former Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, R-Ore., President-elect Donald Trump's pick for Secretary of Labor, left, arrives to meet ...

The Finance Committee voted to approve Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human Services secretary, paving the way for a ...

Collins takes the helm as the agency is seeing hundreds of thousands of additional veterans sign up for VA health care ...

Gabbard had faced pointed questions from some Republican senators about her stances on Edward Snowden and surveillance ...

The Senate Finance Committee voted along party lines to send Kennedy’s bid to lead the Department of Health and Human ...

Callers are getting busy signals and voicemail inboxes are full at many U.S. Senate offices. People are trying to reach out ...

The National Human Trafficking Hotline says it reports tips to law enforcement but prioritizes obtaining victims’ consent ...

Gabbard, whose nomination appeared on shaky ground after her hearing, won over two crucial GOP votes in the eleventh hour.

The man Donald Trump nominated to be FBI director was offered hundreds of thousands of dollars in stock from Trump Media.