When hearings are televised, networks mostly alternate between close-ups of whoever is testifying and whichever senator or ...

Maine Democratic Gov. Janet Mills announced that she will be running for U.S. Senate in an effort to unseat Republican Sen.

The US Senate rejected a bill to reopen the government for the eighth time, extending the shutdown into its third week amid a ...

It's a highly unusual mass layoff widely seen as way to seize on the shutdown to reduce the scope of government. Vice ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats rejected for the 10th time Thursday a stopgap spending bill that would reopen the ...

President Trump and the White House are increasingly sidelining Congress during the government shutdown, escalating a trend ...

Legal disputes over Trump-appointed prosecutors threaten to undermine criminal cases, including an indictment against James ...

The U.S. government shutdown heads into its third weekend with no budget deal on the horizon. The next Senate vote is ...

The progressive wing of the delegation is in panic mode, the Herald is told, now that Salem Rep. Seth Moulton has entered the U.S. Senate race against incumbent Sen. Ed Markey.

There are no term limits for the United States Congress, and an analysis by the Get the Facts Data Team found that members of ...

While thousands of federal workers go without pay, the government shutdown has had little impact on the day-to-day happenings ...

Senate Democrats blocked an effort to advance a year-long appropriations bill to fund the Pentagon, stalling Republican ...