The 76-year-old senate president has been battling cancer and other health problems, and on opening day it seemed clear it ...

Justice’s West Virginia colleague, Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), accompanied him as Senate President Pro Tempore Chuck Grassley (R-IA) administered the oath of office on Tuesday afternoon. Justice ...

The Senate inched closer Monday to final passage of the Laken Riley Act, which requires immigration officials to detain ...

Schumer and Senate Democrats are attempting to flip the script and convince voters the party is on their side.

The Senate Armed Services Committee will hold a confirmation hearing for Trump's defense secretary pick next Tuesday.

Though the Republican-led Laken Riley Act has garnered some bipartisan support, Democratic leaders say that senators should ...

Jose Ibarra, a 26-year-old illegal immigrant ... R-S.D., who teed it up to be the first major vote in the upper chamber. With all Senate Republicans on board, it was initially unclear whether ...

In Minnesota’s evenly divided state House, an intensifying fight over a potential power-sharing agreement led Democratic ...

Josh Stein, center, takes the oath of office from state Supreme Court Chief Justice Paul Newby, placing his hand on the Hebrew Bible held by Stein's wife, Anna, in the old Senate chamber of the ...

Josh Stein, center, takes the oath of office from state Supreme Court Chief Justice Paul Newby, placing his hand on the Hebrew Bible held by Stein’s wife, Anna, in the old Senate chamber of the 1840 ...