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US Senate Democrat questions FBI on domestic terrorism staff reassignments
A top U.S. Senate Democrat pressed the FBI on Tuesday to explain why it reassigned staff from domestic terrorism ...
US Senate confirms Japan ambassador as tariffs complicate ties
The U.S. Senate on Tuesday confirmed George Glass, a former investment banker and diplomat known for criticizing China, as ...
Ex-Facebook employee to tell Congress the company undermined U.S. national security
Williams, a former director of global public policy at Facebook, is set to testify before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee ...
US Senate committee opens review into Meta’s efforts to gain access to China
A US Senate investigative subcommittee opened a review on Tuesday into efforts by Facebook parent Meta Platforms to gain ...
New Hampshire Congressman Chris Pappas announces bid to succeed fellow Democrat in US Senate
Four-term Congressman Chris Pappas of New Hampshire has announced his bid to succeed retiring U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, a ...
Cory Booker Just Gave The Longest Speech In The History of The US Senate
On Tuesday at 7:19 p.m., Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) surpassed the late South Carolina segregationist Strom Thurmond’s ...
US Senate Republican pushes to require congressional approval for new tariffs
Republican U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley introduced a bill on Thursday that would require congressional approval for new ...
US Senate confirms Iowa native and former Hawkeye Matt Whitaker as NATO ambassador
Whitaker, who previously served as interim U.S. attorney general in President Donald Trump's first term, was confirmed in a ...
The hidden power of marathon Senate speeches: What history tells us about Cory Booker’s 25-hour oration
In some cases, long Senate speeches don’t produce clear results. In other cases, they can help pass or prevent new ...
Democrat senators probe Trump administration on the future of special education in the US
The probe comes as parents and disability advocates wonder whether the legal rights of students with disabilities will be ...
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The Senate’s Age of Irrelevance
Elon Musk’s DOGE and Trump’s executive orders are pushing Congress’s upper chamber from ineffectiveness to obsolescence. Will ...
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Senators Denounce Trump Administration’s Response to Myanmar Quake
The six senators said in the letter that the United States appeared to be failing the first test of its ability to respond to a humanitarian crisis in the wake of the Trump administration’s ...