Billionaires, foreign leaders, Cabinet picks, governors and lawmakers have converged on the president-elect’s Palm Beach estate.

The incoming defense secretary will face several challenges, including the war in Ukraine and the turmoil in the Middle East.

Former Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl is part of a resurgent network of nuclear hawks who want to expand the nuclear arsenal.

Democrats repeatedly called Pete Hegseth unfit to be secretary of defense, but Republicans on the Senate Armed Services ...

Pete Hegseth emerged from a Senate committee hearing with the support of the Republican Party intact following weeks of ...

Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.). Schmitt plans to vote for the legislation, criticizing the court’s efforts. “It’s a discredited ...

Eric Trager, a Jewish Republican Senate staffer and Egypt expert, is President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for Middle East ...

We explore the main reasons for ISIS’s resurgence. By David Leonhardt and Desiree Ibekwe The killing of 14 people on New Year’s Day in New Orleans was the latest sign of a resurgence in ...

Gaza’s population dropped by 6% – about 160,000 people – in 2024, according to a new report, as Israel’s war against Hamas took a heavy toll on the Palestinian enclave’s demographics.

The political scientist Dahlia Scheindlin is a longtime expert on Israeli public opinion and analyst of the country’s domestic political scene. With the new year upon us—and with the fall of ...