From restrictions on drinks — only water or milk — to a ban on all food except candy, the Senate’s arcane rules for what is allowed in the chamber are hitting lawmakers hard now they are trapped there all day for President Trump’s impeachment trial.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts on Tuesday released a set of government proposals that included a pledge to fill at least 50% of her Cabinet and senior leadership team with women and “non binary” people.
Sen. Joni Ernst said the chamber’s Republicans are wondering when the House impeachment managers will get around to presenting the “overwhelming evidence” they promised.
Rep. Adam B. Schiff’s opening statement Wednesday at the Senate impeachment trial described President Trump as a serial election “cheat” who must be stopped before the November vote, while the president lobbed insults back at the proceedings from the other side of the Atlantic, calling Mr. Schiff’s crew “major sleaze bags.”
One protester erupted inside the Senate chamber on Wednesday during President Trump’s impeachment trial, yelling that Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer is the “devil.”
Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden, Jr., said Wednesday he won’t agree to appear as a witness before the Senate as part of a testimony swap with Republicans in President Trump’s impeachment trial.
Attorney General William P. Barr has tightened the procedure for opening a criminal probe into a presidential campaign after the Justice Department inspector general found the FBI’s momentous decision on July 31, 2016, to target Trump aides never reached the top.
Senators are not letting the impeachment trial’s restrictions on modern technology stop them. From Apple Watches to staffs’ rapid response efforts on Twitter, the senators are finding ways to use technology around the all-consuming trial.
Without President Trump on the ballot, Martha McSally lost a close Senate election in Arizona in 2018, surrendering one of two seats the GOP lost in the upper chamber that year.
President Trump is acting like someone who knows he's in for a dogfight in November, elevating the "socialist" in the Democratic field, knocking Michael Bloomberg and imploring "American patriots" to flood his campaign with cash to teach his foes a lesson.
Journalists can squawk all they want about the glories of the impeachment "process," claiming it's a notable showcase for the U.S. political system. Not everyone agrees with this. One clinical forensic psychologist, in fact, says the collective well-being of all Americans is now at stake as the endless legal proceedings and nonstop media coverages rumbles on.
President Donald Trump will hold a signing ceremony for the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement on Wednesday, according to the White House.
The 2020 presidential contenders are on the hunt for voters who have buyer's remorse after helping power President Trump to victory n Iowa and across the upper Midwest.
In one of the first cases of its kind, a court in El Salvador ordered a man held in jail Thursday pending trial on charges he promoted the formation of a migrant caravan.
Attorneys general in 20 states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging a federal regulation that could allow blueprints for making guns on 3D printers to be posted on the internet.
A federal judge in Washington state is considering whether to block President Donald Trump from diverting billions of dollars from military construction projects to build sections of border wall along the Southern border.
President Trump said Thursday he will roll out his Israeli-Palestinian peace plan ahead of a White House visit next week from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Federal lawmakers and college professors in Massachusetts are demanding answers after an Iranian student was denied entry into the U.S. despite a court order temporarily staying his removal.
George Soros says he's injecting $1 billion into a new university network that the 89-year-old billionaire investor calls the "most important and most enduring project of my life.
The hundreds of Central American migrants walking north in southern Mexico have received steady media coverage in Mexico, but with sky-high murders, a stagnant economy and corruption topping the national agenda, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s aggressive efforts to stop them hasn't stirred a widespread reaction.
With a newly empowered Democratic majority at the Virginia General Assembly, abortion-rights advocates say the state has a chance to roll back decades of restrictions and become a "safe haven" for women in neighboring conservative states.
Maryland lawmakers hope to repeal “archaic” provisions in the state’s spousal defense for sex crimes and sodomy laws with the reintroduction of legislation this session.
