Sen. Dick Durbin speaks at a press conference on Feb. 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images Patel, 44, is a loyalist to the president and worked in a number of roles during ...

The Senate has narrowly voted to confirm Kash Patel as director of the FBI, moving to place him atop the nation’s premier ...

A federal judge is refusing to temporarily block the Trump administration’s mass layoff of federal workers while a lawsuit ...

A month into President Donald Trump’s second term, lawyers for the Republican administration seem intent on provoking a legal fight to overturn a 90-year-old Supreme Court decision known as Humphrey’s ...

Illinois Senator Dick Durbin says in daily floor remarks on the third anniversary of Russia invading Ukraine that President Donald Trump of the United States was using talking points that sound like ...

When last seen, Schumer was protesting in front of the Treasury Building alongside Maxine Waters: “We will win. We won’t lose,” a reference to Elon Musk’s DOGE. Yelling and arm-waving is a bad image ...

President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the FBI, Kash Patel, was confirmed by the Senate on Thursday in a mostly party-line ...

FBI directors are given 10-year terms as a way to insulate them from political influence and keep them from becoming beholden to a particular president or administration.

Republicans welcomed Kash Patel's confirmation, seeing him as someone who can fix the FBI's alleged targeting of ...

“I cannot imagine a worse choice,” Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., told colleagues before the 51-49 vote by the GOP-controlled Senate. Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska were ...