WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate passed a six-month spending bill on Friday hours before a government shutdown, overcoming sharp Democratic opposition to the measure and sending it to President ...

Mary Matayoshi didn’t wait for a movement to become an empowered woman. She just saw the needs and did the work.

"I rise tonight with the intention of disrupting the normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically able," Sen. Cory Booker said. Booker began speaking at 7 p.m. Monday ...

The Mississippi Senate and House tax cut plans both aim to eliminate state income tax and reduce grocery sales tax. The Senate plan includes PERS reforms and economic triggers for tax cuts ...

A former longtime North Dakota state senator is heading to prison for traveling to the Czech Republic about 14 times to have sex with underage male prostitutes, the Justice Department announced.

There was a heated exchange between Onyekachi Nwaebonyi, senator representing Ebonyi North, and former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, during a senate hearing on Tuesday. The clash occurred ...

By Robert D. McFadden J. Bennett Johnston Jr., a Louisiana Democrat who as a four-term United States senator helped shape America’s energy and science policies in an era of rising concerns over ...

Democrat James Andrew Malone narrowly won a special election for a Pennsylvania state Senate seat in a stretch of Republican-leaning suburbs and farming communities, scoring an upset in a ...

March 26 (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Tuesday confirmed President Donald Trump's nominees Martin Makary and Jay Bhattacharya as heads of the Food and Drug Administration and the National ...

The Senate Committee on Finance voted along party lines Tuesday afternoon to advance Dr. Mehmet Oz, President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ...

Washington — The Senate Finance Committee voted on Tuesday to advance the nomination of Dr. Mehmet Oz, the former heart surgeon and television host, to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid ...