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The Senate confirmation hearing for Mike Huckabee, President Trump's pick for ambassador to Israel, is being held Tuesday after it was delayed by controversy over his appointment.

Drug deaths are declining but the Trump administration's intelligence team has issued a new report describing street fentanyl as a top threat to the U.S.

Following court decisions restricting the Trump administration's policies on immigration enforcement and cuts to federal agencies GOP lawmakers are pushing back. But they're split on how to respond.

The former TV doctor made it through a tight vote in the Senate with only Republican support.

The breach left military and intelligence experts asking the same questions as the public: Why would top U.S. officials use a free messaging app to discuss classified military plans?

The next U.S. head count's accuracy would likely be undermined by a census question about citizenship status that GOP lawmakers and President Trump have pushed to add, a new peer-reviewed study finds.

The MAGA-controlled 118th House passed only 27 bills that became law — the lowest number since the Great Depression. Journalists Annie Karni and Luke Broadwater examine the chaos in a new book.

A Pentagon-wide advisory that went out one week ago warned against using Signal, the messaging app, even for unclassified information.

The CIA Director and the Director of National Intelligence testified that they did not share classified information in a messaging group chat that discussed the U.S. bombing campaign in Yemen.

The Department of Veterans Affairs embraced telehealth, especially for mental health care, in recent years. Now, staffers hired to give therapy and other health care remotely are ordered to do it from offices lacking privacy, VA clinicians told NPR.