The U.S. Senate energy committee will hold nomination hearings for President-elect Donald Trump's picks for energy roles on Tuesday and Wednesday next week, the panel's chairman Senator Mike Lee said on Thursday.

Trump’s first cabinet reflected, by his standards, a timidity about ostracising the Republican old guard. Rex Tillerson, John Kelly and Jeff Sessions were choices designed to reassure a wary Republican party that their firebrand president was willing to learn from their wisdom and experience.

Get the latest news on the transition to the new administration of President-elect Donald Trump and the new Congress.

More than half the U.S. Senate's Democrats joined with Republicans on Thursday to advance a bill that would require the federal government to detain migrants living in the country illegally who are suspected of crimes,

Newly in the minority, Democrats voted with Republicans on Thursday to advance legislation that would require federal authorities to detain unauthorized immigrants who have been accused of certain cri

Thursday's vote to advance the Laken Riley Act does not guarantee the immigration bill will have enough votes to pass the Senate.