While President-elect Donald Trump’s controversial pick for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, is beginning the process to undergo an FBI background check, the intensive review may not provide the ...

The White House has quietly directed the FBI to halt the background check process for dozens of President Donald Trump's top staffers, and has transferred the process to the Pentagon, sources familiar ...

The FBI seal is pictured in Omaha, Neb., Aug. 10, 2022. Key Republican senators promised on Monday that President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the FBI, Kash Patel, will be vetted through the ...

Two former Senate counsels agreed in a New York Times op-ed published Friday that President-elect Trump’s nominations for his Cabinet need to undergo FBI checks. Some advisers to the president-elect ...

President-elect Trump's transition team has signed on to an agreement for the FBI to vet the incoming administration's cabinet nominees, the transition team announced Tuesday. Trump's team says it ...