Senate Majority Leader John Thune's stance on the filibuster is "unchanged" despite President Trump's call to scrap the rule to end the government shutdown. Follow live updates here.

Jeff Merkley, a Democrat in the U.S. Senate since 2009, raised the most out of his Oregon congressional colleagues this ...

Senate Republicans are resisting his demand to end the long-standing filibuster rule in order to end the government shutdown.

Get live updates and the latest news as the government shutdown hits the one month mark, with Trump administration promising ...

Travelers across the United States are in for a fright this Halloween, as thousands of flights are expected to be delayed due ...

In a hearing Thursday in Boston, a federal judge signaled she may order the Trump administration today to pay food assistance ...

The billionaire and fascism enthusiast’s company SpaceX is getting $2 billion in government funding to develop satellites ...

Lawyers for former FBI Director James B. Comey filed new motions in federal court this week seeking dismissal of the criminal charges against him, arguing that the indictment rests on ambiguous ...

“Disrupting SNAP means American children will go hungry,” said Quinton Lucas, mayor of Kansas City, Missouri. “Families will ...

The air is turning blue over the Capitol Dome. And the government is more shut than ever. Washington woke Thursday to a whiff of rare hope that behind-the-scenes efforts were accelerating in the ...

Senator John Thune, Republican of South Dakota and the majority leader, again rejected President Trump’s call to eliminate ...