South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem will be the nation’s next secretary of the Department of Homeland Security after the U.S. Senate confirmed her nomination Saturday. The 53-year-old Noem, a ...

Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky voted against President Donald Trump's nominee to be secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth.

With 9,000 acres of forest seeded with chaga mushroom spores, the first harvest of an expected 350,000 pounds is ...

Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Susan Collins (R-Maine) said Saturday she didn’t understand why President Trump fired ...

Pete Hegseth has vowed to bring his “warrior” ethos to the Pentagon. Democrats had assailed him as unfit for the job, and his ...

News reports last week detailed President Donald Trump’s efforts to derail offshore wind energy in the United States. But in ...

Shortly before Trump’s inauguration, a federal agency withdrew a proposal to protect North Atlantic right whales from vessel ...

Another display of the northern lights could be visible this weekend in several U.S. states following a severe solar storm.

Attorneys general from 18 states sued to block President Donald Trump’s move to end a decades-old immigration policy known as ...

There's a reason cats are said to have nine lives, and Mittens the Maine Coon probably agrees. After joining her family on a ...

Washington became the last state on the U.S. West Coast to reject salmon aquaculture over environmental concerns. A new ...

NBC talked to voters who find both parties, Democratic and Republican, lacking and who are looking for change. Here are their thoughts about the state of American politics as Trump begins his second ...