Two weeks after hush money verdict, Trump to meet with Senate Republicans
Former President Donald Trump will meet with Senate Republicans Thursday, speaking to the group just two weeks after he was convicted on 34 charges in his hush money trial and as GOP senators have increasingly rallied around him.
Biden says the US is rushing weaponry to Ukraine as he signs a $95 billion war aid measure into law
President Joe Biden says he's immediately rushing badly needed weaponry to Ukraine now that he's signed into law a $95 billion war aid measure that also includes assistance for Israel, Taiwan and other allies.
Some of Trump's allies in Congress already support his 2025 ideas on deportations and Jan. 6 pardons
Donald Trump is campaigning on promises of mass deportations and of pardons for those convicted in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, and his ideas are being met with little pushback by a new era of Republicans in Congress.
Schumer's rebuke of Netanyahu exemplifies US leaders skirting an unwritten rule on allies' elections
Republicans and Israeli officials were quick to express outrage after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer lashed out at Prime Benjamin Netanyahuโs handling of the war in Gaza and called for Israel to hold new elections.
Biden and party leaders implore Speaker Johnson to help Ukraine in 'intense' Oval Office meeting
Congressional leaders emerged from an โintenseโ Oval Office meeting with President Joe Biden speaking optimistically about the prospects for avoiding a partial government shutdown beginning this weekend.
Biden is summoning congressional leaders to the White House to talk Ukraine and government funding
President Joe Biden will convene the top four congressional leaders at the White House on Tuesday to discuss the emergency aid package for Ukraine and Israel, as well as avoiding a government shutdown next month.
Senators push forward with Ukraine aid package as their leaders say the world is watching
As a growing number of Republicans oppose U.S. aid to Ukraine, the Senateโs leaders are arguing in strong terms that the money is crucial to pushing back against Russian President Vladimir Putin and maintaining Americaโs global standing.
Border bill supporters combat misleading claims that it would let in more migrants
A provision of border security legislation that would give the U.S. a new authority to block migrants from entering the country has become a central line of attack from many Republicans who are opposing the legislation.
Here's how 2 sentences in the Constitution rose from obscurity to ensnare Donald Trump
On Thursday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments over whether Donald Trump can remain on the ballot in Colorado, where that stateโs highest court ruled that he violated a constitutional provision targeting those who โengaged in insurrection.โ.
Senators are racing to win support for a border deal as aid to Ukraine hangs in the balance
Senate negotiators are laboring to win support for a deal on border policy as they enter what could be a pivotal stretch for a painstakingly negotiated compromise that could open the door for Republican support to replenish U.S. wartime aid for Ukraine.
FBI: Man wearing Captain America backpack stole items from senators' desks during Capitol riot
A Virginia man has been arrested on charges that he stormed the U.S. Capitol while wearing a Captain America backpack and stole items from senatorsโ desks on the Senate floor during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot.
Mitch McConnell, standing apart in a changing GOP, digs in on his decades-long push against Russia
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell has been increasingly isolated on foreign policy among his GOP colleagues, a growing number of whom have distanced themselves as a matter of course from U.S. involvement abroad -- and particularly on Ukraine.
Senate Republicans outline border security measures they want as a condition for aiding Ukraine
Senate Republicans have released a sweeping set of U.S. border security proposals as a condition for sending more aid to Ukraine, laying out a draft plan to resume construction on parts of the U.S.-Mexico border wall, curtail humanitarian parole for people who cross into the United States and make it more difficult for migrants to qualify for asylum.
Congress didn't include funds for Ukraine in its spending bill. How will that affect the war?
When U.S. lawmakers approved a spending bill Saturday that averted a widely expected government shutdown, the measure didnโt include the $6 billion in military assistance that Ukraine said it urgently needed.
McConnell tries to reassure colleagues about his health, vows to serve out term as Senate GOP leader
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell declared again that he plans to finish his term as leader despite freezing up twice at news conferences over the summer, brushing off questions about his health as he sought to reassure colleagues heโs still up to the job.
NATO unity will be tested at upcoming summit. Ukraine's possible entry may be the biggest challenge
With no end in sight to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, NATO leaders are gathering in Lithuania this week for their annual summit at a time when the world's biggest security alliance is facing new tests of its unity.
'Shrink the room:' How Biden and McCarthy struck a debt-limit deal and staved off a catastrophe
Perhaps most critical to locking up the debt-limit deal were President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthyโs five handpicked negotiators, three men and two women unknown to most outside government.
McConnell opposes Alabama Republican's blockade of military nominees over Pentagon abortion policy
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell says he wonโt support a fellow GOP senatorโs blockade of military nominees, backing Democrats and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin who have said that the holdup is harming national security.
Deal or default? Biden, GOP must decide what's on the table
Before President Joe Biden and congressional leaders can even try to avert an unprecedented U.S. government default, their initial challenge on Tuesday will be to agree on what exactly theyโre talking about as they hold their first substantive meeting in months.
Republicans object to replacing Feinstein on Judiciary panel
Republicans have blocked a Democratic request to temporarily replace California Sen. Dianne Feinstein on the Senate Judiciary Committee, leaving Democrats with few options for moving some of President Joe Bidenโs stalled judicial nominees.
McConnell opposes as Senate nears repeal of Iraq war powers
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell says he opposes repeal of the 2002 and 1991 authorizations of force against Iraq, arguing that that authority โbears directly on the threats we face today in Iraq and Syria from Iran-backed terrorists.โ.