The billionaire Wall Street CEO fielded questions about tariffs, China's AI progress, broadband access, allegiance to Trump and the revival of American mining and semiconductor production.

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has revoked the security clearance and security detail authorization for Mark Milley, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a prominent critic of President Donald Trump.

Pete Hegseth became the new secretary of Defense on Friday after Vice President JD Vance cast the tie-breaking vote in the Senate. Three Republican senators joined all Democrats in voting no on the confirmation — Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski,

Vice President-elect JD Vance and his wife Usha were dressed to the nines Saturday night to host the private dinner for President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet.

Will the Senate GOP confirm controversial picks like Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr.? Here’s the hearings schedule and list of who’s been confirmed.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order to instruct the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security to prepare a 30,000-person migrant facility at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba.

A proposed spending freeze threatened to disrupt hundreds of billions of dollars in aid to US programmes. Read more at straitstimes.com.

When a group of Senate Democrats held a press conference Tuesday to denounce President Trump’s pardon of Jan. 6 rioters, there was a slight problem. They were capitalizing on a news cycle that had since been buried by a week’s worth of other news generated by the White House.

Three Trump picks will get committee hearings on Wednesday as Republicans work to get his nominations confirmed.

President Donald Trump's second White House is looking a lot like the inside of Mar-a-Lago, with extremely wealthy Americans taking key roles in his Republican administration.

The U.S. Senate confirmed billionaire investor Scott Bessent on Monday to serve as President Donald Trump’s treasury secretary.

Here are Trump's choices for some of the key posts, including defense, intelligence, health, diplomacy, trade, justice, immigration and economic policymaking. Hegseth, 44, is a military veteran who has expressed disdain for the "woke" policies of Pentagon leaders, including its top military officer.