Mock hearings, last-minute deals and primary threats helped move controversial nominees through the Senate.

Though Republicans control the White House, Senate and House of Representatives, tight margins may help tether acceptance of federal power grabs to reality.

Ever since news broke that 6th District Congressman Andy Barr plans to run for the U.S. Senate should Kentucky’s longtime senior senator Mitch McConnell not run for reelection in ...

A Binghamton firefighter was killed and two others were injured while fighting a fire downtown on Wednesday night.

Five years ago, on February 5, 2020, Republican senators acquitted then-president Donald Trump in his first impeachment trial. Trump immediately vowed retaliation against those who tried to hold him ...

U.S. aid workers around the world scrambled Wednesday to pack up households or pull children from school after the Trump ...

OTTAWA — The Ottawa Senators aren’t going to let anyone go after their best players and let them get away with it. Saturday night the Minnesota Wild learned that the hard way. The Senators (28-20-4) ...

Let’s start, though, with the most closely watched senator of the moment ... It seemed as if Washington Sen. Patty Murray, a Democratic member of HELP, was speaking directly to Cassidy when she said ...

Two Democratic senators introduced a bill that would require President Trump to get congressional approval for proposed tariffs on trading partners before imposing them, a push coming just days ...

Republican senators pressed Gabbard to declare Snowden a “traitor” and to acknowledge that he “harmed” U.S. national security, but Gabbard refused to do so, raising alarm among Republicans ...

“The future of crypto is just incredibly bright,” the Democrat-turned-independent told The Wall Street Journal in an interview announcing the move. Sinema, who brokered a series of bipartisan ...

Some GOP senators want public commitments from Robert F. Kennedy Jr. before deciding whether to support him as the next secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, signaling that Pre ...