Senators have headed for the exits in the predawn hours without having met President Donald Trump’s push to pass a strict proof-of-citizenship voting bill.
Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy says he’ll back Todd Blanche’s nomination as attorney general, likely paving the way for Blanche to be confirmed to lead President Donald Trump’s Justice Department.
Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana says he’ll vote for Todd Blanche as attorney general, likely paving the way for Blanche to be confirmed to lead President Donald Trump’s Justice Department.
Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky says he’s been discharged from a rehabilitation center and will continue his recovery from home.
Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear is calling on Sen. Mitch McConnell to prove he is fit to continue serving in office or resign.
President Donald Trump said Iranian ships will no longer be able to travel through the Strait of Hormuz and America would charge a 20% toll on other countries’ eligible cargo, escalating tensions after weekend of attacks by both nations to assert control of the critical waterway.
Senate Republicans are returning to Washington with an uncertain agenda after the sudden death of prominent Republican Lindsey Graham, a committee chairman and key player who served as a crucial ally of President Donald Trump.
Sen. Mitch McConnell has for the first time revealed what led to his hospitalization.
Kentucky's governor has written an open letter to Mitch McConnell asking the Republican senator to disclose more about his condition.
Senate Republican leaders have spoken to Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell as he remains in the hospital.
Staff for Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell has said that the senator is “continuing his recovery” in a hospital while the Senate is out of session.
Mark Sherman has covered the Supreme Court for The Associated Press for 20 years during some of the most momentous decisions in history.
President Donald Trump has tried many ways to tighten his grip on U.S. elections, from signing executive orders to pushing restrictive legislation in Congress.
The relationship between President Donald Trump and Senate Republicans seems to be nearing a breaking point.
In pushing to prove his loyalty to President Donald Trump, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has agitated the same Republican lawmakers whose votes he may need to secure the permanent job.
A small but growing group of Republican lawmakers is showing independence from President Donald Trump.
Kentucky U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie has lost his Republican House primary after a concerted effort by President Donald Trump to oust him through challenger and ultimate winner Ed Gallrein.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has faced tough questions from Republican and Democratic lawmakers about the Trump administration’s end game for the Iran war, the rising cost of the conflict and its impact on diminishing U.S. weapons stockpiles.
President Donald Trump has endorsed Kentucky congressman Andy Barr in the Republican primary for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by retiring Sen. Mitch McConnell.
President Donald Trump repeated his complaint about NATO after a private meeting with the alliance's Secretary-General Mark Rutte on Wednesday.
Joe Kent’s resignation from President Donald Trump’s counterterrorism team is fueling a Republican fight over the Iran war and talk about Israel that critics call antisemitic.
Election-year legislation to impose strict new proof-of-citizenship requirements on voting appears stalled in the Senate, for now, despite President Donald Trump’s call in his State of the Union speech that Republicans in Congress pass the bill “before anything else.”.
Some Republicans seemed relieved at the news that the Supreme Court had struck down President Donald Trump’s global tariff regime.
Republican lawmakers are scrambling to contain President Donald Trump’s threats of taking possession of Greenland.
President Donald Trump's military intervention in Venezuela is testing his ability to hold the Republican coalition together.
U.S. senators critical of President Donald Trump’s approach to ending the Russia-Ukraine war say they spoke with Secretary of State Marco Rubio who told them that the peace plan Trump is pushing Kyiv to accept is a “wish list” of the Russians and not the actual U.S. plan.
After refusing to convene the U.S. House during the government shutdown, Speaker Mike Johnson is recalling lawmakers back into session.
The Senate has passed legislation to reopen the government, bringing the longest shutdown in history closer to an end after a small group of Democrats struck a deal with Republicans.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán says his country has received an exemption from U.S. sanctions on Russian energy after a meeting in the White House with President Donald Trump.
The Senate approved a resolution Tuesday evening that would nullify President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Brazil, including oil, coffee and orange juice, as Democrats test GOP senators’ support for Trump’s trade policy.
Kentucky Senate candidate Daniel Cameron is banking on his familiarity with voters to overcome lackluster fundraising.
Matt Van Epps, a former commissioner in Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee’s administration, has won a crowded Republican primary in the special election to replace a GOP congressman who left office this summer.
Democrat and retired Marine aviator Amy McGrath has entered the Senate campaign in Kentucky.
Senate Democrats kept their promise to reject any Republican spending bill that didn’t extend or restore health care benefits, choosing instead to force a government shutdown.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in an address to the military’s top leaders waded back into a topic that nearly derailed his confirmation early this year and helped elevate his voice as a Fox News commentator – the fitness of women to serve in combat.
A federal appeals court has upheld a law strengthening the rights of pregnant workers, vacating a judge’s earlier order that had stripped those protections from Texas state employees.
Democrats have struggled to find effective ways to oppose President Donald Trump, and even some Democratic voters describe the party as weak.
Mitch McConnell and Elaine Chao’s status as a powerhouse couple was on display as they attended a ceremony in Kentucky for the archives that will catalogue their careers.
Republican Nate Morris warmed up a recent crowd of party faithful by gushing about President Donald Trump and recounting his own life’s journey.
Republican Ralph Alvarado has reentered Kentucky politics by announcing his bid for a congressional seat targeted by Democrats in 2026.
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear says Democrats can win back disaffected voters by focusing on their everyday concerns to counter the anticipated fallout from President Donald Trump’s budget-and-policy package.
The Justice Department has fired Maurene Comey, the daughter of former FBI director James Comey and a prosecutor in the federal cases against Sean “Diddy” Combs and Jeffrey Epstein.
Senate Republicans have advanced President Donald Trump’s request to cancel some $9 billion in previously approved spending.
President Donald Trump’s decision to send more defensive weapons to Ukraine came after he privately expressed frustration with Pentagon officials for announcing a pause last week in the delivery of some critical weapons to Ukraine.
Republican businessman Nate Morris says Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell is undeserving of a lifetime achievement award from their home state political party.
Republican businessman Nate Morris has entered Kentucky’s competitive campaign to succeed longtime Senate power broker Mitch McConnell.
A few Republicans are reacting with indignation after the Senate parliamentarian advised that some of the measures in their tax and immigration bill could not be included in the legislation.
Republicans and Democrats on a key Senate panel are challenging the merits of cancelling billions of dollars in spending for foreign aid and public media, as requested by President Donald Trump.
President Donald Trump and his political operation are working to unseat their first Republican incumbent: Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie, who has drawn Trump’s wrath by saying the president lacked the authority to attack Iran’s nuclear sites without congressional approval.
President Donald Trump says he plans to tap Chad Meredith, a former state solicitor general in Kentucky, for a federal judgeship in the state.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is defending his decision to order National Guard troops to provide security during immigrations raids in Los Angeles.
Only six months into the job, Senate Majority Leader John Thune faces a massive challenge as he tries to quickly pass President Donald Trump’s sprawling tax and spending cuts package.
Kentucky Democrats are trying to address the party's steep deficits in overwhelmingly white, conservative pockets of rural America.
An ethics complaint stemming from Republican Daniel Cameron’s failed run for Kentucky governor has resurfaced as the former state attorney general campaigns for a U.S. Senate seat in Kentucky.
Sen. Rand Paul says resistance to President Donald Trump’s trade wars has sprung up in Kentucky from a cross-section of business sectors.
President Donald Trump says he is naming Secretary of State Marco Rubio as acting national security adviser to replace Mike Waltz, whom he is nominating as United Nations ambassador.
Senate Republicans have narrowly voted down a Democratic resolution that would have blocked global tariffs announced by Donald Trump earlier this month, giving the president a modest win Wednesday as lawmakers in both parties have remained skeptical of his trade agenda.
The Senate has produced the quickest top-level Cabinet confirmation process in the last 20 years under new Majority Leader John Thune of South Dakota.
Republicans in Congress are watching with unease as stock markets tumble in the aftermath of President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs.
The Senate has passed a resolution that would thwart President Donald Trump’s ability to impose tariffs on Canada.
President Donald Trump’s use of tariffs has forged a rare bipartisan alliance among Kentucky’s top leaders — Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear and Republican Sens. Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul.
Republican Senate candidate Daniel Cameron has lavished praise on President Donald Trump and criticized his mentor, Sen. Mitch McConnell.
The scramble to fill Mitch McConnell’s Senate seat in Kentucky began as soon as the Republican revealed he won’t seek reelection in 2026.
Kentucky Republicans are considering the race for the U.S. Senate seat being opened by Mitch McConnell's announcement he's retiring.
President Donald Trump seems to have questioned a well-documented part of Sen. Mitch McConnell’s life — his childhood battle with polio.
Donald Trump’s efforts to undo diversity, equity and inclusion efforts throughout the federal government have had a trickle-down effect far beyond formal DEI programs.
In the early days of President Donald Trump’s second term, Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski had openly challenged or rebuked him at least three times.
Donald Trump has been sworn in as the 47th president of the United States, taking charge as Republicans claim unified control of Washington and set out to reshape the country’s institutions.
Attorney General Merrick Garland came in with a mission to calm the waters at the Justice Department and restore its reputation for independence after four turbulent years during Donald Trump's presidency.
The Supreme Court seems likely to uphold the law that could ban TikTok, with most of the justices appearing concerned about the national security risks posed by the wildly popular app whose parent company is based in China.
Kentucky's attorney general says the state will receive $110 million to settle its lawsuit accusing one of the nation's largest grocery chains of helping fuel the opioid epidemic.
A senior official says Canada is looking at putting retaliatory tariffs on American orange juice, sinks, toilets and some steel products if U.S. President-elect Donald Trump goes ahead with his threat to impose 25% on all Canadian products.