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Senate confirms Burgum as Interior secretary

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The Senate easily confirmed Doug Burgum as secretary of the Interior Department Thursday, a job that positions him to act on President Donald Trump’s energy strategy. The 79-18 vote makes the wealthy former North Dakota governor the official in charge of Trump’s “drill, baby, drill” plans as Interior oversees energy production on public land and in federal waters…
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House eyes Friday vote on stopgap as partisan tensions flare

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House eyes Friday vote on stopgap as partisan tensions flare

GOP leaders believe they will need to heed the chamber’s 72-hour-review rule…
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Kash Patel says court orders bar him from releasing the Epstein files. Judges have said otherwise.

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FBI Director Kash Patel claimed Wednesday that he is barred by recent court orders from releasing thousands of documents connected to disgraced sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. “I’m not going to break the law to satisfy your curiosity,” Patel said during the second day of Congressional oversight hearings after Rep…
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Jim Jordan goes after Adam Schiff at FBI oversight hearing

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House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan on Wednesday opened FBI Director Kash Patel’s second Congressional oversight hearing in two days by going after a former colleague, Sen. Adam Schiff. “Why would the head of the Intelligence Committee, the chair of that committee, who’s supposed to be guarding our secrets — why would he be encouraging the leaking of classified information?” Jordan…
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