The Senate on Thursday confirmed Kash Patel, President Donald Trump's choice to be FBI director. The final vote was 51-49. Two Republicans, Sens. Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski, voted against Patel.

The Senate Judiciary Committee will vote Thursday on whether to advance President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the FBI, Kash Patel, to the floor for a full vote.

President Donald Trump's pick to head the FBI, Kash Patel, won the approval of the Republican-controlled U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, clearing the way for a vote to confirm a director ...

Democrats were vehemently opposed to Patel’s nomination from the outset, but days before the committee was set to vote on it, ranking member Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) revealed that unnamed ...

WASHINGTON — The Senate Judiciary Committee voted Thursday to advance the nomination of Kash Patel to the full Senate, moving him one step closer to being confirmed as President Donald Trump’s next ...

FBI director nominee Kash Patel has ties to a group of ex-agents who call themselves “The Suspendables” and have long called for firings and change.

Democrats voiced their strong opposition to Patel during Thursday’s hearing, with Ranking Member Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., saying the Senate is “inviting a political disaster if we put Kash Patel into ...

Garden City High School graduate Kash Patel was described as an unqualified conspiracy theorist and a brilliant investigator seeking accountability before he was confirmed on Feb. 21 as the new FBI ...

More recently, the committee's top Democrat, Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, claimed Patel "may have committed perjury" by testifying at his hearing that he knew nothing about a purge of top agency ...

And Sen. Dick Durbin (Ill.), the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Patel “likely committed perjury” when he denied having insight into FBI firings that came the very next day.