The U.S. Senate voted 50–45 to confirm former Fox News host and longtime prosecutor Jeanine Pirro as U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. The tally broke strictly along party lines, with five senators—Reuben Gallego and Peter Welch on the Democratic side, and Mitch McConnell, Tim Scott of South Carolina, and Roger Wicker of Mississippi for the Republicans—absent for the vote. Pirro has served as interim U.S. attorney since May after being appointed by President Donald Trump. Her confirmation places a high-profile Trump ally at the helm of the nation’s busiest federal prosecutor’s office, which handles cases ranging from political corruption to national-security matters.