ATLANTA – Former Gov. Nathan Deal’s chief of staff will serve in that role in the House speaker’s office on an interim basis, Speaker Jon Burns announced Wednesday.

Now McConnell, sitting since 2019 as chief judge of the U.S. District Court, is at the center of a high-stakes legal battle between Democratic states and President Donald Trump’s administration over a ...

Sen. Thom Tillis told colleagues he was a ‘no’ the night before the defense secretary’s confirmation, setting off party pressure. His turnaround left witnesses who had come forward as collateral ...

North Carolina native Dan Driscoll is nominated for secretary of the Army despite serving less than four years in the ...

New U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, in one of his first acts in the job since being appointed by President Donald Trump, ...

President Trump this week revoked a security detail for retired Gen. Mark Milley and announced an investigation into the ...

Hegseth’s chief of staff, Joe Kasper ... The decision to strip Milley of his security detail was met with quick criticism ...

Jack Reed, D-R.I., NBC News ... Last month, a group led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass, wrote a letter to Trump’s incoming chief of staff arguing Hegseth’s “attitudes toward women ...

I spoke with U.S. Sen. Jack Reed last Wednesday about ... fire the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, plus the chief of Naval Operations,” said Reed. “Last week they fired the Coast Guard ...

The Senate voted 98 to 1 to confirm Jim Mattis, Mr. Trump’s first Pentagon chief, and 90 to 8 for his ... insist he is unfit for duty. Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island, the Armed Services ...

Danielle Hegseth submitted the affidavit after the ranking member on the committee, Rhode Island Senator Jack ... staff learned about her meeting, they knew that it looked bad. Gabbard’s deputy ...