The United States Senate has taken its first step towards ending the longest government shutdown in the country’s history as lawmakers agreed to move forward with a stopgap funding package. The Republican-led proposal, which would keep the government ...

The United States Senate is at a precarious moment. From tariffs to agency funding to foreign affairs, the Senate’s check on the executive branch is arguably weaker than ever, with some critics, and some senators, warning that the body is abandoning its ...

IS CLOSED TODAY. TURNING TO COMMITMENT 2026, THE MIDTERM ELECTION IS MORE THAN A YEAR AWAY, BUT ALREADY WE’RE SEEING WHO MIGHT APPEAR ON VOTERS BALLOTS AND WHO WILL NOT. AND ONE BIG TICKET RACE IS FOR U.S. SENATOR THOM TILLIS SEAT. AFTER THE REPUBLICAN ...

Trump is encouraging U.S. oil executives to invest $100 billion in Venezuela to help rebuild that country after removing its leader, Nicolas Maduro.

President Trump called Republican senators on Thursday to personally rebuke them for supporting a war-powers resolution that served as a symbolic repudiation of the administration’s moves in Venezuela,