WASHINGTON — Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, reversed himself on the Senate filibuster Wednesday after years of unflinching support for the 60-vote threshold to pass most bills. Now, locked in a ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) and Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) on Thursday endorsed Rep. Kevin Hern (R-Okla.) in the race to succeed outgoing Oklahoma Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R). “He will be a ...

A Woodburn man was charged with threatening to murder a U.S. senator, U.S. Justice Department officials said March 19. Donald Smith Jr., 51, reportedly left a voicemail for a senator around Nov. 12, ...

Mississippi’s Senate primaries set up a general election showdown between an incumbent and a challenger she blocked from federal judgeship. Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith and Democrat Scott Colom, a ...

Vanna Howard of Lowell was sworn into the Massachusetts Senate Wednesday, making history as the nation’s first Cambodian American state senator. Howard represents the First Middlesex District, which ...

Fetterman’s vote to advance the nomination of Mullin, an Oklahoma Republican, to a floor vote from the Senate Homeland Security Committee was crucial as Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul broke ...

WASHINGTON — Senator Markwayne Mullin faced some of his Senate colleagues during an at-times contentious Wednesday morning hearing on his nomination to be the next secretary of Homeland Security. The ...

Only two senators on the Senate Homeland Security Committee broke party lines as the committee voted 8-7 to advance Senator Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma's nomination for secretary of the Department of ...

BOSTON — After winning the special election for the 1st Middlesex District earlier this month, Vanna Howard officially made history Wednesday when she was sworn in as the first Cambodian-American ...

State Rep. James Talarico has won the Democratic Senate nomination in Texas over U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, NBC News projects, as the party seeks to put the traditionally Republican state in play ...

Affordability is the top issue on Marylanders’ minds, with many residents saying everyday expenses — from groceries to electricity — have become harder to manag Exceptional warmth ahead of ...

WASHINGTON, March 19 (Reuters) - A U.S. Senate committee voted on Thursday to advance the nomination of Senator Markwayne Mullin to become homeland security secretary, even as the committee's ...