Mock hearings, last-minute deals and primary threats helped move controversial nominees through the Senate.

President Donald Trump got his two former progressive Democratic Cabinet picks confirmed with little Republican dissent this week despite early predictions that they would have trouble getting through ...

George Washington is dead. We know this because his remains are entombed at Mount Vernon. He passed on Dec. 14, 1799. It has been over 200 years since his death.

The U.S. Senate has confirmed most of President Donald Trump's picks for his cabinet so far. Here are Trump's choices for ...

Rhodes and his followers were convicted of stashing firearms in hotels surrounding Washington for use at Rhodes’s call, hoping that Trump would invoke the Insurrection Act and deputize them in ...