Lawmakers on the Senate Banking Committee on Thursday took the unusual step of delaying a public hearing to consider three of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While President-elect Donald Trump’s controversial pick for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, is beginning the process to undergo ...

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Key Republican senators promised on Monday that President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the FBI, Kash Patel, will be vetted through the confirmation process. At the same time, two incoming ...

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Ethics experts, legal experts, and current and former members of Congress are blasting Donald Trump and his transition team for skipping critical FBI background checks on at least some of the ...

Senate Republicans are rejecting a proposal floated by some advisers to President-elect Trump to take the job of conducting background checks for high-level nominees away from the FBI and give it to ...

Sen. Jack Reed (R.I.), the top-ranking Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, called the FBI’s background check of Pete Hegseth, President-elect Trump’s nominee to lead the Pentagon, ...

While President-elect Donald Trump’s controversial pick for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, is beginning the process to ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team is bypassing traditional FBI background checks for at least some of his Cabinet picks while using private companies to conduct vetting of potential ...