Senate

Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) responds to reporters asking questions as he enters his office at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Sept. 28, 2026.

Thune reelected as Senate GOP leader after failed push to delay vote

David Sivak, Ramsey Touchberry · November 10, 2026 3:36 pm

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Who is Ahmed Moor, the Democratic socialist who will primary John Fetterman

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas speaks at a Republican nominee for U.S. Senate Mike Rogers campaign event Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2026, in Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich.

Cruz unveils GOP campaign headquarters in Texas in bid to reclaim the state

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, July 29, 2026, in Washington.

Rand Paul eyes top spot on Senate health panel as GOP plays committee musical chairs

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Thune forges ahead with leadership elections despite calls for post-midterm reckoning

A person smokes a Juul Labs Inc. e-cigarette in this arranged photograph taken in the Brooklyn Borough of New York, U.S., on Sunday July 8, 2018.

McConnell bill to raise legal smoking age to 21 to get vote in Senate panel

Kimberly Leonard June 24, 2019 3:47 pm

Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 6, 2019.

Liz Cheney may have a primary challenger for Wyoming Senate seat — if both enter the race

Naomi Lim June 20, 2019 8:41 pm

A U.S. Flag rests against the Memorial Wall of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington at daybreak on Memorial Day Monday, May 27, 2019.

Senators fight to add ‘Lost 74’ sailors to Vietnam memorial

Jerry Dunleavy June 20, 2019 8:30 pm

Former Alabama Chief Justice and U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore speaks.

Roy Moore says he will run for Senate again in 2020

Jerry Dunleavy June 20, 2019 7:31 pm

Senate lawmakers get classified Navy briefing on UFO sightings

Regina Barton June 20, 2019 6:37 pm

23-year-old black columnist says reparations would make young black people ‘victims without their consent’

Claude Thompson June 19, 2019 8:49 pm

Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee and the top Senate border security negotiator, speaks to reporters about the bipartisan compromise worked out last night in hope of averting another government shutdown, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2019.

Senate panel advances emergency border funding

Susan Ferrechio June 19, 2019 4:49 pm

Mourners pay their respects following a funeral service for the late Republican Sen. Thad Cochran, in the Mississippi State Capitol rotunda in Jackson, Miss., Monday, June 3, 2019. Cochran was 81 when he died Thursday in a veterans' nursing home in Oxford, Mississippi. He was the 10th longest serving senator.

GOP aides demoted over taxpayer-funded government jet flight to senator’s funeral

Caitlin Yilek June 19, 2019 1:45 pm

Tulips bloom at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, April 16, 2019, as Congress is away on a two week district work period.

Cut Flowers Caucus blooms on Capitol Hill

Naomi Lim June 15, 2019 4:00 am

Would Mitch McConnell hold hearings on a future Democratic Supreme Court nominee? Maybe, but confirmation is another story

Philip Klein June 14, 2019 8:52 pm

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., listens as Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., speaks during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, May 14, 2019.

Mitch McConnell says he and Nancy Pelosi agree: ‘I am indeed the grim reaper’

Tim Pearce June 14, 2019 5:11 pm

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell takes aim at Supreme Court leak.

Mitch McConnell, always in ‘sales mode’

Paul Bedard June 12, 2019 6:55 pm