RICHARD BLUMENTHAL

Senate Democrats returned to Washington to wield their newly expanded majority this week, but the specter of potential retirements in their ranks is already raising anxiety.

"Ticketmaster should look in the mirror and say, 'I'm the problem, it's me​,'" one senator quipped.

Criticism of Live Nation, which owns Ticketmaster, intensified after a botched sale of tickets to Taylor Swift's "Eras" tour.

Germany agreed to send tanks to Ukraine after weeks of stalling and negotiating with Kyiv and allied partners.

"Putin is trying to rewrite the map of Europe by force of arms," Sen. Lindsey Graham said while calling on the US and Germany to send Ukraine tanks.

"Putin is trying to rewrite the map of Europe by force of arms," Sen. Lindsey Graham said while calling on the US and Germany to send Ukraine tanks.

With its flights running on a roughly normal schedule, Southwest Airlines is now turning its attention to repairing its damaged reputation after it canceled 15,000 flights around Christmas and left holiday travelers stranded.

The president is joining the 10th Annual National Vigil for All Victims of Gun Violence.

A group of Democratic senators have asked federal regulators to investigate any possible violations by Twitter of consumer-protection laws or data-security commitments.

Fans of Taylor Swift encountered a number of issues while trying to obtain tickets to the singer's latest tour via Ticketmaster.

GOP tsunami is sweeping away Democrat hopes for midterm elections because of party’s failures on crime, retirement accounts. Even Connecticut is in play.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal served as president of the student council at his high school amid a "Slave Day" fundraising event and later used a racial slur in college writings.

Biden pledged "consequences" and vowed to "take action" — but some lawmakers are demanding a concrete response.

The decision by OPEC+ to cut production by 2 million barrels a day has been seen by some as a way to help Russia keep paying for its war in Ukraine.

President Joe Biden says there will be “consequences” for Saudi Arabia as his administration begins reevaluating the U.S. relationship with the kingdom.

The government is getting its day in court to try to block a partnership between American Airlines and JetBlue.

A strike by railroad workers would have wide-ranging impact on consumers, commuters and businesses.

U.S. lawmakers are anxious to hear from Twitter’s former security chief, who has alarmed Washington with allegations that the influential social network misled regulators about its cyber defenses and efforts to control fake accounts.

Republicans have found success in Democratic strongholds such as Maryland and Massachusetts when they have fielded moderate candidates who could appeal to voters in both parties.

Republicans have found success in Democratic strongholds like Maryland and Massachusetts when they have fielded moderate candidates who could appeal to voters in both parties. With Democrats facing headwinds this year, Republicans had hoped that strategy could pay off yet again.

Blumenthal said his staff found the same type of deceptive ads violating Google's policies that it said it removed after a 2021 investigation by The Markup.

Businessman Tim Michels has won Wisconsin's Republican nomination to take on Democratic Gov. Tony Evers.

The Republican matchup in the Wisconsin gubernatorial race in Tuesday's primary elections features competing candidates endorsed by former President Donald Trump and his estranged vice president, Mike Pence.

On Wednesday, U.S. Senators Tim Kaine, Richard Blumenthal, and Susan Collins introduced the Equal Access to Contraception for Veterans Act, which will eliminate copayments for contraception covered by the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Senators Tommy Tuberville of Alabama and Joe Manchin of West Virginia have requested feedback from college sports leaders to be used to craft a bill to regulate how college athletes can be compensated for their names, images and likenesses.

Major League Baseball told a Senate committee planning a hearing on the sport’s antitrust exemption that it prevents teams from moving without approval and allows the sport to maintain the minor leagues at a wide level.

Leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee have asked baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred to explain the impact of potential legislation stripping the sport’s antitrust exemption from covering the sport’s relationship with minor league players.

The executive director of the nonprofit Advocates for Minor Leaguers has recommended Congress enact legislation nullifying Major League Baseball’s antitrust exemption as it applies to minor league players.

If you're flying this holiday weekend, be prepared for crowded airports, full planes, and higher-than-normal chances that your flight will be delayed or even canceled.

The chairman and ranking minority member of the Senate Judiciary Committee sent a letter to an advocacy group for minor leaguers asking questions about baseball’s antitrust exemption.

DOT Secretary met virtually with airline CEOs on Thursday after several waves of flight delays and cancellations.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission advised parents advised to not let babies fall asleep in rockers after multiple deaths tied to Fisher-Price products.

The largest and best-funded advocacy groups, including the National Rifle Association, appear to be keeping their options open.

As the Boy Scouts sell off a number of campgrounds, conservationists, government officials and others are scrambling to find ways to preserve them as open space.

As the financially struggling Boy Scouts sell off a growing number of campgrounds — conservationists, government officials and others are scrambling to find ways to preserve them as open space.

Less than 48 hours after a gunman stormed an elementary school and killed 19 children and two teachers in his home state of Texas, Sen. John Cornyn was tapped to lead gun policy negotiations in the Senate.

President Biden will weigh in on the May jobs report after it is released on Friday morning. Later, Vice President Harris plans to speak about inflation.

The House Judiciary Committee has advanced legislation that would raise the age limit for purchasing a semi-automatic rifle from 18 to 21.

The bipartisan senators are making progress on new gun control legislation, four sources said.

The U.S. energy secretary and Danish wind developer Orsted say they want American union workers to build offshore wind farms to dot the U.S. coastlines — the building trades workers who could otherwise be left out of a transition to renewable resources.

A bipartisan group of senators is considering how Congress should respond to the horrific shooting of 19 schoolchildren and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas.

The anger among Dem voters isn't just with Republicans. It's also with their own party, which controls both houses in Congress and the White House.

The Senate majority leader castigated Republicans for their repeated inaction after mass shootings but said Democrats had no choice but to try again.

The Biden administration so far has not added Russia to a list of state sponsors of terror, which are limited to Cuba, Iran, North Korea and Syria.

The most critical moments for prospective justices often come in the dozens of private huddles they hold with senators.

Through a decades-long career in conservative politics, Virginia Thomas has repeatedly maintained that her political activity represented no conflict of interest with the work of her husband, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

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

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

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

Nothing so encapsulates the finely choreographed nature of the modern Supreme Court confirmation process as the round-robin of senatorial interviews.

Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson is winning praise from a key Senate Republican.

Biden has selected his nominee for the high court and may announce it as soon as Friday

Just being the newest member of the Supreme Court can be a momentous adjustment for a justice.

The bipartisan bill would give online a platforms a duty prevent or mitigate certain harms to minors including suicide, eating disorders and substance abuse.

The bipartisan Kids Online Safety Act comes amid mounting frustration in Washington that apps like Instagram and YouTube aren't doing enough to protect their youngest users.

If President Joe Biden’s search for a nominee to the Supreme Court could be summed up by a Help Wanted ad it might read: “Seeking a well-respected liberal jurist.

Sen. Lindsey Graham is among a handful of Republicans declaring a willingness to back President Joe Biden's yet-to-be-announced Supreme Court nominee.

President Joe Biden appears to be narrowing his list of candidates for the Supreme Court, saying he’s looking at “about four people.”.

The bill’s revival has reignited a battle over the future of Internet regulation and online speech. Prominent technologists, industry groups, civil rights advocates and LGBT interest groups have aggressively campaigned against it, warning the proposal threatens to erode consumers’ privacy and could have a chilling effect on free expression online.

How hard is it to amend the Constitution? Even harder than you think.

In a letter provided exclusively to Insider, three senators asked the Education Department to provide prompt relief to defrauded Navient customers.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has set off for Washington to reassure Americans that his country stands alongside the United States and other NATO partners in opposing any Russian aggression against Ukraine.

The legislation addresses key gripes app developers including Spotify, Epic Games, Basecamp and others have raised about Apple and Google.

Lawmakers say a patchwork of laws and inconsistency is hurting the ability to slow the spread of scams.

Two U.S. senators say they were denied access to parts of a federal prison in Connecticut while trying to examine conditions there.

Two U.S. senators said Wednesday that they were denied access to parts of a federal prison in Connecticut while trying to examine conditions there in response to correctional officers' complaints about a staffing shortage and lack of coronavirus precautions. Concerns about the spread of COVID-19 itself were behind the denial, the federal Bureau of Prisons said. Chris Murphy and Richard Blumenthal, both Connecticut Democrats, visited the Danbury Federal Correctional Institution with labor union leaders and two state lawmakers.

Congress has taken a new step toward reining in the market dominance of Big Tech. Bipartisan legislation advanced by a Senate panel would bar the dominant online platforms from favoring their own goods and services over those of rivals on the platforms.

Senator Ed Markey said Americans need to be able to afford the at-home tests so they can "protect themselves, their loved ones, and their communities from the spread of COVID-19."

The latest data from the CDC shows 86 cruise ships currently have passengers on board who have tested positive for the virus.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating more cruise ships due to new COVID-19 cases aboard.

Travelers love to hate airline fees, and several congressional Democrats say it's time to regulate the extra charges for things like checking a bag.

Takeaways from a hearing include: senators are frustrated with Instagram for not moving more quickly to protect young users and the CEO maintains the platform does more good than harm.

Under sharp questioning by senators of both parties, Instagram head Adam Mosseri defended the company’s conduct and safety measures.

Under sharp questioning by senators of both parties, Mosseri challenged statements that research found Instagram to be addictive for children. He said the site has take steps to protect young users.

Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri did not commit to permanently ending the paused plans to create a version of the platform for kids under 13.

The head of Instagram, appearing before a Senate panel, met with deep skepticism over new measures the platform is adopting to protect young users nd the company’s commitment to transparency.

“The kinds of baby steps that you’ve suggested so far are underwhelming,” said Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) to the head of Instagram Adam Mosseri.

Instagram's chief executive Adam Mosseri is expected to testify before Congress for the first time the week of Dec. 6.

Califf, a longtime Duke University researcher who now works for Verily and Google Health, gets the nod for an agency stretched by the pandemic.

Break up Big Tech.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal, who chaired the hearing, said being distinct from Facebook isn't enough to cut it for the three tech giants. "That bar is in the gutter," he told the company officials.

Lawmakers also heard from executives at Snapchat and YouTube.

Lawmakers met with executives from YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat to know what protocols they have done to protect underage users on their platforms.

Senators have put executives of YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat on the defensive.

The senator leading a probe of Facebook’s Instagram and its impact on young people is asking Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify in the Senate.

Blumenthal said it is "urgent and necessary" for Zuckerberg or Instagram chief Adam Mosseri to testify in order "to set the record straight."

Here are three bipartisan steps Congress could take right now to reduce the harm social media platforms cause. Will they act?

The market, advertisers and Congress likely won’t challenge Facebook, but other things might.

Nearly all Americans agree that the rampant spread of misinformation is a problem.

The former Facebook product manager who has accused the social network giant of threatening children’s safety — and the integrity of democracy — is urging Congress to take action to rein in a largely unregulated company.

A former Facebook data scientist testified before Congress that the social network’s products harm children and fuel polarization in the U.S. while executives reject changes that could hurt company profits.

Senators have fired a barrage of criticism at a Facebook executive over the social-networking giant’s handling of internal research on how its Instagram photo-sharing platform can harm teens.

Senators have met privately with a former U.S. attorney in Atlanta who resigned in January as then-President Donald Trump pressured officials to overturn his election defeat.

More than half the cosmetics sold in the United States and Canada are awash with a toxic industrial compound associated with serious health conditions, including cancer and reduced birth weight, according to a new study.

A federal law governing how college athletes can earn money off their fame seems like a certainty.

President Joe Biden faced fierce blowback from fellow Democrats and refugee advocates for considering keeping his predecessor’s record-low cap of 15,000 for admitting refugees this budget year.

The first Senate hearing for President Joe Biden’s judicial nominations featured two African American nominees for appeals court openings.

The Supreme Court appears likely to put a stop to California’s practice of collecting the names and addresses of top donors to charities.

More action, less talk and something for the history books.

The pictures always make it look so presidential.