Don’t expect Tony Dungy to make the jump to politics anytime soon. A report earlier this week from The Hill suggested that the former Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Indianapolis Colts head coach was a candidate for a Michigan Senate seat, but Dungy took to social media to shut down those rumblings on Thursday.

Michigan Sen. Gary Peters, who led the Democrats' Senate campaign efforts the past two election cycles, has announced he will not seek a third term in 2026, creating a highly contested battleground seat expected to be coveted by both major political parties.

The Senate confirmed Doug Burgum as Interior secretary after President Trump tapped the North Dakota billionaire to help boost fossil fuel production.

(Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Thursday confirmed Doug Burgum, the former governor of North Dakota, as President Donald Trump's interior secretary. The vote was 79 to 18. Burgum, 68, will lead an agency that guides the use of 500 million acres (202 million hectares) of federal and tribal land, a fifth of the nation's surface area.