South Dakota governor Kristi Noem was confirmed as the United States’ new Secretary of Homeland Security Saturday by vote of 59 to 34 in the Senate. The confirmation was considerably less ...

Jay Inslee touted the enormous increase in state ... making him the current longest-serving governor in the United States and the first to win three gubernatorial terms since the late Dan Evans.

Noem shared a video of the moment on X, just after 6:30 p.m. "It is such an honor to be sworn in as the United States Secretary of Homeland Security," she wrote in the post. "It was made even more ...

The Senate confirmed Kristi Noem as homeland security secretary on Saturday by a 59-34 vote, putting the former South Dakota governor in charge of a sprawling agency that is essential to national ...