Senate confirms Tulsi Gabbard as Trump’s intelligence chief

The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Tulsi Gabbard to be Director of National Intelligence in a 52-48 vote, making Donald Trump's controversial nominee — whose approval appeared unlikely just weeks ago — the nation’s spy chief.Gabbard, a former Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii and an Army combat veteran, passed out of the Senate Intelligence Committee in a 9-8 party-line vote last week. Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., the former Senate majority leader, appeared to be the GOP