The vote now heads to the full Senate, where Barr is expected to be confirmed in a vote as soon as next week. Barr, who previously served as attorney general from 1991 to 1993, would succeed Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
The Army is developing a new, more grueling and complex fitness exam that adds dead lifts, power throws and other exercises designed to make soldiers more fit and ready for combat
President Donald Trump says he's nominating a Washington veteran with lobbying ties to U.S. energy companies to lead the Interior Department
A Pentagon report says the total number of sexual assaults at the three U.S. military academies increased slightly last year, but an anonymous survey suggests far more encounters are going unreported
With government temporarily reopened, Trump says he doubts negotiators will strike a budget deal that he'd accept
A splintered Senate has swatted down competing Democratic and Republican plans for ending the 34-day partial government shutdown
The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to go ahead with its plan to restrict military service by transgender men and women while court challenges continue
Absence rate among unpaid government airport screeners hits 10 percent
Thousands of federal employees and their families are applying for unemployment and food stamps to get by as the longest government shutdown in U.S. history drags on
Number of furloughed federal workers seeking US jobless aid doubled in week of Jan. 5
The inspector general for the General Services Administration says the agency improperly ignored the U.S. Constitution's provision outlawing foreign gifts when it OKed President Donald Trump's management of his Washington hotel after his 2016 election
The Federal Aviation Administration said it is calling 2,200 safety inspectors back to work by the end of this week.
White House tries to hold jittery GOP in line over wall, government shutdown
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is expected to leave his position soon after William Barr is confirmed as attorney general
Small business owners are increasingly feeling the impact of the partial government shutdown that's in its 17th day.