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The senators bucked their leaders -- including Mitch McConnell -- who traveled to Kyiv over the weekend to meet with Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

The Biden administration’s nominee for U_S_ ambassador to Ukraine is promising senators she'll work to make Russia’s war there a “strategic failure."

EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Josh Hawley is introducing legislation that would strip the Walt Disney Company of special copyright protections granted to the corporation by Congress, while also limiting the length of new copyrights.

The American Bar Association must take action against justices who lied during confirmation, writes Rabbi Mark H. Levin. | Opinion

U.S. senators are demanding that the Army put more money and effort into repairing poorly maintained and substandard base housing for military service members and their families.

Top GOP lawmakers emphasized the unprecedented nature of the unauthorized disclosure of the high court's draft ruling on an abortion case instead of the possible impact on women or on the midterms.

High-profile surrogates for Republicans running in Ohio’s hotly contested Senate primary are fanning out across the state ahead of Tuesday’s election.

The Department of Homeland Security has launched a new panel to tackle disinformation.

The conservative pundit cited Hawley as an example of "the worst about would-be presidents incubated in the Senate.”

Former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens, whose ex-wife recently accused him of physical abuse, says he will not drop his political comeback bid for the U.S. Senate.

"60 Minutes" spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy from his fortified war rooms for an hourlong interview. Topics included the West's response to the conflict and what victory would look like for Ukraine.

The House panel investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot has enough evidence to refer former President Donald Trump for criminal charges, Rep. Liz Cheney says. She says the panel has not made a decision about moving forward with a referral.

A milestone Supreme Court confirmation that endured a flawed process.

In a last-minute gripe, Republicans took swipes at Ketanji Brown Jackson even though they were powerless to stop her confirmation.

Josh Hawley, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Madison Cawthorn did their best, but there’s no getting around the fact that womanhood is a complex thing to define.

The Missouri Republican does not use the same language as the more zealous members of his party — but he doesn’t like to contradict them, either.

False, unfounded and damaging claims about pedophilia have been pulled in from the fringe.

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is endorsing former Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel in the heated Republican primary for the open U.S. Senate seat in the Midwestern battleground.

We know there are calls that aren't recorded. But that's not the only reason the records are suspect.

Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson had to endure hours of public scrutiny from skeptics during her Senate hearings this past week, and that's something familiar to many Black women.

After more than 30 hours of hearings, the Senate is on track to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first Black woman on the Supreme Court.

Republicans invited a lawyer from QAnon’s favorite nonprofit to weigh in on Ketanji Brown Jackson.

The far-right internet only began to obsess about Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson after a series of tweets from Sen. Josh Hawley echoed themes used by conspiracy theorists.

The various moments when the Supreme Court nominee seemed to decide that she was not going to let herself be bullied were fascinating to watch.

Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee are shooting down the idea of boycotting the panel's vote on Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson. "There's not going to be any boycott. There's zero, not one iota chance that we would boycott," said Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), a member of the committee.The idea of a committee boycott, which has floated around Capitol Hill for weeks, was spun up after 10 Republicans sent Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill...

The historic Senate hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who's the first Black woman nominated for the Supreme Court, have been joyful, combative and clarifying.

If Biden's Supreme Court nominee gets any GOP votes, it's pretty clear by the bitterness displayed during her confirmation hearing they likely won't come from Republicans on the Judiciary Committee

It’s not just Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson who is being watched as she makes history as the first Black woman to be considered for the job.

For a handful of ambitious Republican senators, Jackson’s confirmation hearings this week have served as an high-profile platform to prove their mettle to GOP voters who might someday see their names on a presidential primary ballot.

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson faced down a barrage of Republican questioning about her sentencing of criminal defendants on Wednesday, as her history-making bid to join the Supreme Court veered from lofty constitutional questions to attacks on her motivations as a judge.

The Supreme Court nominee, in highly personal terms, rejects the suggestion by some Republicans that she let sex offenders off the hook.

Why Republicans are talking about pedophilia this week, how contempt is shaping Ohio's U.S. Senate primary, and what's happening in the race to replace Don Young.

"I did my duty to hold the defendants accountable," Jackson said in response to questions about her sentencing on child pornography cases.

Right away, she and Democrats defended against Republican attacks, like that she's weak on child sex predators

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Biden's nominee to the Supreme Court, will answer questions from members of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson forcefully defended her record as a federal judge Tuesday, pushing back on Republican assertions that she would be soft on crime and declaring she would rule as an “independent jurist” if confirmed as the first Black woman on the high court.

History was made the instant Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

The first full day of questions for Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson opened with some very big ones — on race, abortion and judicial philosophy.

Jackson, who will be the first Black woman on the Supreme Court if confirmed, spent her official introduction before the Senate Judiciary Committee detailing her approach as a judge, describing it as narrowly focused on resolving the issues before her.

How Republicans are setting things up, and what Jackson said in her opening statement.

A Senate committee will be questioning Judge Kentaji Brown Jackson over the next two days before the full Senate can vote on her nomination.

When voters stop rewarding such behavior, we will stop seeing so much of it. | Editorial

Judge Ketanji Brown is pledging to defend the Constitution and decide cases “without fear or favor” if she is confirmed to the Supreme Court.

Few Republicans are echoing Trump's description of the Russian president​ as savvy or smart.

Few Republicans are echoing Trump's description of the Russian president​ as savvy or smart.

Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman nominated to the top court, is set to appear Monday before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Committee hearings will begin for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman nominated to the Supreme Court.

Ketanji Brown Jackson has held private meetings with almost half the members of the Senate.

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman nominated to the Supreme Court, is going before the Senate Judiciary Committee with the path to her historic confirmation seemingly clear.

President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee will face sharp questions from Republican lawmakers this coming week about the work she did as a public defender representing four Guantanamo Bay detainees.

With selective snips and out-of-context quotes, Hawley attacked the Supreme Court nominee.

Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson may not get any Republican votes.

For all their angst about the possibility of former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens winning the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in the state, GOP leaders haven’t coalesced behind an alternative.

Trump-style isolationist nationalism has lost some of its momentum among Republicans as Americans unite in support of Ukraine.

The House panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol has previewed some of its findings in a federal court filing.

The Fox News anchor leans into his anti-intellectual shtick.

Leading Republicans spent much of the first three days at a conservative political gathering avoiding Donald Trump’s chief grievances or ignoring him altogether.

Over three days, Republicans at the Conservative Political Action Conference seemed intent on avoiding Donald Trump’s grievances about the last election, and some ignored him altogether.

Lies about election fraud, the focus of last year's Conservative Political Action Conference, have been an afterthought.

Lies about election fraud, the focus of last year's Conservative Political Action Conference, have been an afterthought.

Can a sex scandal in Missouri cost the GOP the U.S. Senate?

An unconventional assortment of progressives and conservatives argues that the U.S. could prevent a war by giving up on NATO expansion.

Congress has given final approval to legislation guaranteeing that people who experience sexual harassment at work can seek recourse in the courts.

A rift over the Republican National Committee's symbolic vote to censure former President Donald Trump’s House GOP critics has exposed the competing forces fighting to control the party.

Former President Donald Trump says Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell “does not speak for the Republican Party.”.

The newspaper's editorial board burst the bubble on the Missouri GOP senator's presidential aspirations, slamming him as "grossly unfit" for office.

Adam Kinzinger of Illinois also called the Missouri senator a self-aggrandizing "con artist.”

Sens. Jon Ossoff and Josh Hawley introduced competing bills to ban members of Congress and their immediate family members from trading stocks while in office.

It's not often that Ted Cruz finds himself having to mend fences with the right.

A year after the Jan. 6 attack, Congress is more deeply divided than ever, and it shows in how lawmakers are choosing to mark the day.

Republican “populists” who now celebrate the insurrection are products of the same elite networks that have always run the country.

Accountable.US, a nonpartisan watchdog, named 30 companies and groups to have donated to the 147 Republican members of the so-called Sedition Caucus.

As President Joe Biden announces two more ambassador nominees, the White House and Democrats are warning that maneuvering by some Senate Republicans to block all but a small fraction of Biden’s diplomatic and other national security appointees is doing serious harm to U.S. diplomatic efforts around the globe.

Caroline Kennedy will be nominated for ambassador to Australia. MIchelle Kwan, a former Olympic skater and campaign aide, was tapped for ambassador to Belize.

In 2021, few in the publishing industry worried that no one cared about books anymore.

The announcement follows Rittenhouse's recent acquittal for last year's shooting in Kenosha, Wis. The company is also lifting restrictions that blocked his name in certain search results.

Donald Trump’s first post-White House book will be, like so much else about him, a departure from other former presidents.

What I saw at the National Conservatism Conference

The rising-star Republican continues to try to stoke culture war in the GOP base.

Hawley is calling for a "revival of ... manhood in America." Kristin Kobes Du Mez, a Calvin University professor and the author of Jesus and John Wayne, explains how masculinity is a political issue.

A lot of it is coming from people who would never tolerate that kind of talk from a conservative, too. | Editorial

The eight victims who died from the Astroworld "crowd surge" were identified as civil lawsuits continue to mount against Travis Scott and Live Nation.

A federal lawsuit accuses the National Rifle Association of violating campaign finance laws by using shell companies to illegally funnel up to $35 million to Republican candidates, including former President Donald Trump, Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri and others.

Attorney General Merrick Garland has defended a Justice Department memo aimed at combating threats and violence against teachers, administrators and other school officials.

Attorney General Merrick Garland is defending a memo aimed at combating threats against school officials nationwide.

Former President Donald Trump struggled during his first year in office to get his nominees confirmed in a timely fashion in the Senate.

President Joe Biden’s pick for ambassador to Beijing has told lawmakers considering his nomination that Americans should “have confidence in our strength” when dealing with the rise of China, a nation he says the U.S. and its allies can manage.

A publishing division is being started by the conservative media company the Daily Wire.

Roger Marshall won't let people forget he’s a doctor.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says he will not again help Democrats extend the government’s borrowing authority.

The architect of an upcoming Washington protest that aims to rewrite history about the violent January assault on the U.S. Capitol is hardly a household name.

A U.S. Senate candidate in Missouri, Republican state Attorney General Eric Schmitt, is flexing the power of his office by filing a slew of lawsuits, including against Democratic cities and schools to stop mask mandates.

Allies of former President Donald Trump are calling those charged in the Jan_ 6 riot at the U_S_ Capitol “political prisoners.”.

Following the deadly riots at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, many big corporations pledged not to donate to members of Congress who objected to the results of the presidential election.

A bill that would make Washington, D.

A St. Louis couple who gained notoriety for pointing guns at social justice demonstrators last year have pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges.

Dr. Anthony Fauci has been a political lightning rod since the early days of the pandemic.

FILE - In this Jan. 20, 2021, file photo, former Vice President Mike Pence and his wife Karen walk from the plane to greet supporters after arriving back in his hometown of Columbus, Ind. Conspicuously absent from the list: Mike Pence. The former vice president is steadily reentering public life as he eyes a potential run for the White House in 2024. Ad“Obviously Mike Pence has a very different persona, a very different tone. The anger at Pence took a dangerously personal turn on Jan. 6 when rioters paraded through the Capitol chanting “Hang Mike Pence” as a mob outside set up a makeshift gallows.

FILE - In this Aug. 6, 2020 file photo, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt speaks during a news conference in St. Louis. – Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt on Wednesday announced he's making a bid to replace Roy Blunt in the Senate, setting up a Republican primary against disgraced former Gov. Voters first elected Schmitt to the state Senate in 2008 to represent a suburban St. Louis district. He was elected state treasurer in 2016, then took over as the state attorney general after Josh Hawley vacated the seat to join the U.S. Senate in 2019. He won another term as attorney general in 2020.

“A lot of white, working-class Democrats thought we forgot them,” Biden said after touring a union training facility during a late September swing through Westmoreland County. Still, that proposition — which Republicans dismiss as a “liberal wish list” — will be tested in places such as Westmoreland County. “There’s a lot of people who are still registered Democrats, who still hold on to those working-class Democratic values," Bretz said. Trump won 62% of white voters without a college degree in November, according to AP VoteCast, a nationwide survey of the electorate. Ad“We are a working-class party now," Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley tweeted on election night.