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Energy executive Alan Armstrong, joined by his wife Shelly Armstrong.

GOP holdouts complicate Trump’s final chances to reshape US courts

Kaelan Deese · November 11, 2026 4:45 pm

Jensen Huang.

Republicans recoil over Nvidia CEO spy allegations as feds investigate: ‘I lost my breath’

Sen. Ted Budd, R-N.C., speaks before Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine attend a hearing of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Tuesday, July 21, 2026, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Ted Budd to run for second Senate term in swing state North Carolina

Sen. John Boozman, R-Ark., speaks before President Donald Trump signs a bill that returns whole milk to school cafeterias across the country, in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026.

Trump drops appeals court nominee opposed by Arkansas senators

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., and members of the Republican Conference arrive to elect their leadership following the sweeping victory by Democrats in the midterm elections.

‘Forget 2028’: Senate GOP braces for a long stretch in the minority

Senate Finance Committee ranking member Sen. Ron Wyden.

Ron Wyden: Without declassified info, Gina Haspel’s confirmation hearing will make ‘mockery’ of Senate

Laura Barrón-López April 19, 2018 5:18 pm

FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2018, file photo, Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., speaks on Capitol Hill, in Washington. Duckworth has given birth to a baby girl, making her the first U.S. senator to give birth while in office. The Illinois Democrat announced she delivered her second daughter, Maile Pearl Bowlsbey, on Monday, April 9, 2018.

Infants now permitted on Senate floor

Diana Stancy Correll April 19, 2018 3:22 am

There is no guarantee that money from any settlements would go toward prevention, based on the 1990s settlement between 46 states and major tobacco makers.

House panel maps out moves for opioid bills

Robert King April 18, 2018 11:20 pm

FILE - In this June 2, 2017 file photo, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt looks back after speaking to the media during the daily briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington.
Pruitt is looking to make peace on biofuels standards with a group of senators from corn-growing states who could upend President Donald Trump's nominees for key regulatory posts. Pruitt pledged in a letter to Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa and a half dozen other Republican lawmakers to take specific actions benefiting the biofuels industry.

EPA chief Scott Pruitt has ‘lost the faith of the public’ and must resign: Democrats

Melissa Quinn April 18, 2018 9:23 pm

Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., on Thursday will propose immigration legislation that seeks to strike a balance between progressive and conservatives' demands on border security and the future of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. (AP Photo/Bob Christie)

Jeff Flake flips his vote, hands Trump a victory on his NASA nominee

Pete Kasperowicz April 18, 2018 6:15 pm

Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., speaks during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Democrats move to allow more people to buy Medicare

Kimberly Leonard April 18, 2018 6:05 pm

Secretary of State-designate Mike Pompeo pauses while speaking during the Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing on his nomination to be Secretary of State on April 12 on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Why Mike Pompeo was the perfect person for Trump to send to Pyongyang

Tom Rogan April 18, 2018 4:14 pm

The overdose-reversal drug is a critical tool to easing Americaâs coast-to-coast opioid epidemic. Baltimoreâs health department is rationing its supplies of naloxone because it says it canât afford an adequate stockpile.

Democrats seek $100 billion to fight opioid epidemic

Robert King April 18, 2018 4:04 pm

Summer Zervos and Donald Trump.

Bob Corker: Marsha Blackburn has an uphill climb in Tennessee Senate race

Al Weaver April 18, 2018 3:12 pm

Farm state senators demand answers from Scott Pruitt on ethanol waivers

John Siciliano April 17, 2018 11:16 pm

"A U.S. ambassador is not going to influence the Cuban government, which is a dictatorial, closed regime," Rubio disclosed.

Marco Rubio picks Heritage Action CEO as his next chief of staff

Diana Stancy Correll April 17, 2018 10:12 pm

Mitch McConnell: Senate won’t vote on a Mueller protection bill

Al Weaver April 17, 2018 8:45 pm