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 ...

The Department of Education has been a source of political controversy since its creation in 1980 during Jimmy Carter's presidency. President Ronald Reagan, who was first elected that year, called for ...

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The secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, or HHS, plays a significant role in every American’s access to health care and in the nation’s overall well-being. Under the secretary’s ...

WASHINGTON – Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth swore in Robert “Bob” Fitton from Jackson, Wyoming; Richard “Dick” Burch from Lincoln, Nebraska; Aaron Reisinger from Puyallup, Washington; Terrie ...

One of the first tasks faced by an incoming president is staffing the Cabinet, the people who collectively are a president's top advisers and the nation's highest officials. Most of the members of ...

The McCrary Institute for Cyber & Critical Infrastructure Security receives funding from various federal and state agencies, including the US Department of Agriculture, the US Department of Energy, ...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth may have deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan — but now he’s facing another battle: this time on his home turf at the Pentagon. Controversy has plagued Hegseth since ...

On September 30, hundreds of generals and admirals will descend on Quantico, Virginia, for a meeting with the secretary of defense, with the president as a late addition. The meeting’s large size, ...

The race for the next United Nations Secretary General officially kicked off on November 25 when the Presidents of the General Assembly and the Security Council issued a joint letter defining the ...