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Pat Keliher has served as commissioner for the Maine Department of Marine Resources for 14 years, the longest anyone has held ...

The IRS is cutting more than 6,000 jobs this week, as part of the Trump administration's downsizing of the overall federal workforce. The job cuts at the IRS come in the middle of the tax-filing ...

The Senate narrowly confirmed Kash Patel, a Trump loyalist and a critic of the FBI, as the bureau’s director in a 51-49 vote on Thursday afternoon. Republican Sens. Susan Collins (Maine) and Lisa ...

WASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday narrowly voted to confirm Kash Patel as FBI director, moving to place him atop the nation ...

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

Those New York records can only be withheld if they’re determined to be an invasion of the officer’s personal privacy that ...

Kash Patel, a longtime loyalist to President Donald Trump, was confirmed by the Senate on Thursday as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation — an agency he has talked about drastically ...

Patel, a Trump loyalist who has fiercely criticized the agency that he is poised to lead, inherits an FBI gripped by turmoil.

The Senate confirmed Mr. Patel by a vote of 51 to 49 to lead the country’s premier federal law enforcement agency.