The U.S. Senate voted on Thursday to confirm the top auto safety official along with dozens of other nominees, including officials overseeing highways and pipelines.

U.S. senators are expected to vote Friday on competing stopgap bills that both aim to temporarily fund the government past the Sept. 30 deadline, according to POLITICO.

In using the nuclear option, John Thune has turned a Senate precedent on its head, defying his reputation as an institutionalist.

A Republican challenger for a Mississippi seat in the U.S. Senate called on President Donald Trump to send the National Guard to Jackson. The call to action by Sarah Adlakha follows the Trump administration’s possible troop deployments beyond Washington,

Several Democratic senators have put forward a Senate resolution urging US recognition of a Palestinian state. The move marks a visible shift in US politics.

NOAA kept a database of disasters that exceeded $1 billion in damage since 1980, but the agency halted the project amid funding cuts by the Trump administration.

President Donald Trump is inviting fresh congressional scrutiny over his power as commander in chief with a crackdown on drug smuggling off the coast of Venezuela. In the coming weeks, Democrats will force a vote on Trump’s authority to sink boats that he says are run by “narcoterrorists” trafficking drugs into the United States,

National Voter Registration Day, celebrated on a Tuesday in September, is a nonpartisan event endorsed by major election organizations including the National Association of Secretaries of State and the U.