Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced a sweeping new effort Monday to identify and prosecute individuals who unlawfully disclose sensitive military information, warning that national security secrets cannot be traded for favorable press coverage or fleeting political attention. The Department of War and the Justice Department have established a joint

House Republicans advanced a major government-accountability measure aimed at preventing suspicious federal payments before taxpayer dollars disappear into fraudulent schemes, administrative errors, or payments to ineligible recipients. The House passed H.R. 8464, the Stopping Fraudulent Payments Act, by a vote of 218-200 on June 10. Every voting

ABC’s long-running daytime program “The View” could soon lose a regulatory protection that has allowed it to interview political candidates without providing comparable airtime to their opponents. The Federal Communications Commission is expected to determine that the Disney-owned program should not qualify as a “bona fide” news

Vice President JD Vance and House Speaker Mike Johnson are intensifying efforts to advance one of President Donald Trump’s most important legislative priorities, reviving a strategy that could potentially bypass the Senate’s usual 60-vote threshold. Vance met with Johnson and House Republicans on Wednesday as GOP leaders

The United States Navy has identified the senior aviator who disappeared following an emergency helicopter landing in the Arabian Sea earlier this month. Cmdr. Gabriel Edwards, a native of Oakland, Oregon, was serving as commanding officer of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 5 when the MH-60S Seahawk carrying him and

The House of Representatives delivered a rare unanimous vote this week to restore a federal office dedicated to advocating for the surviving families of America’s military veterans. Lawmakers voted 424-0 to approve H.R. 1228, the “Prioritizing Veterans’ Survivors Act,” legislation designed to return the Department of Veterans

The Senate has confirmed John Phelan to lead the Department of the Navy, delivering another important personnel victory for President Donald Trump as his administration advances its national security and military reform agenda. Phelan won confirmation in a 62-30 vote, drawing support from lawmakers in both parties despite questions

Hunter Biden secured a $1.7 million punitive-damages award after a California federal judge ruled that former Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne repeatedly spread an unsupported allegation involving an alleged Iranian bribery scheme. U.S. District Judge Stephen Wilson, a Ronald Reagan appointee, issued the award Friday in Biden’

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster announced Monday that Darline Graham Nordone, the sister of the late Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, will temporarily represent the state in the United States Senate following her brother’s sudden death. The appointment will allow Nordone to serve the remainder of Graham’s term, preserving

President Donald J. Trump has long understood that the Iranian regime considers him a primary target for retaliation. That threat dates back to January 2020, when Trump ordered the U.S. drone strike that killed Qasem Soleimani, the powerful commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force, shortly