The Senate on Tuesday will take up another vote on a stopgap funding bill that could reopen the government after the lapse stretched into its fifth week. Lawmakers in the upper chamber have already failed 13 times to reach the 60-vote threshold needed to advance the legislation,

Sen. Jeff Merkley has been speaking for more than 15 hours, as of Wednesday morning, warning abut the "grave threat" posed by Donald Trump to American democracy. "I’ve come to the Senate floor tonight to ring the alarm bells.

Bondi continuously deflected questions from Democrats on controversial issues, including the Jeffery Epstein files, prosecution of former FBI Director James Comey and legal rationale for using the national guard in US cities.

The Senate is set to vote Wednesday on dueling stopgap funding bills that could reopen the government as the shutdown stretches past the one-week mark. The tally has remained virtually unchanged, other than absences, since the lapse in funding started last ...

The Senate failed for the 14th time to advance a bill to end the government shutdown, now the longest in U.S. history.

Democrats swept to victory in the first major test of President Donald Trump’s second term. Follow here for live news updates, results, analysis and more.

Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Susan Collins of Maine told reporters that progress was made with Democrats offering specific language to break the impasse and staffs from b

Senators continued to express cautious optimism over bipartisan talks to end the shutdown, but the chamber adjourned without another vote.