The U.S. Senate has confirmed dozens of President Donald Trump's nominees at once, voting for the first time this session under the chamber's new "nuclear" rules.

The special session of the South Dakota state legislature on Tuesday, Sept. 23 is months in the making. Back in February, lawmakers voted against appropriating money to build a new men’s prison in Lincoln County in eastern South Dakota;

Washington Examiner Senior Investigative Editor Sarah Bedford said it is “unlikely” that the Senate will stay in Washington, D.C. this week to confirm Mike Waltz as ambassador to the United Nations before the general assembly.

Republicans claimed their proposals on school safety and mental health would have an “immediate impact” and complained that they hadn’t been given enough time to prepare bills and more detailed explanations since the DFL-majority Senate called for the meetings last week.

WASHINGTON -- Senate Republicans silenced Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren for criticizing colleague and Attorney General-designate Jeff Sessions with the words of Coretta Scott King from three decades ago. Warren, whose name has been prominent in ...

An appeals court panel heard arguments Tuesday on whether the state House Republican majority can sit on bills adopted by the Legislature in the last session instead of sending them to the governor.

The Missouri Senate's first day of a redistricting and initiative petition special session got off to a rocky start on Wednesday after Republicans employed a rarely utilized maneuver to approve the rules.

The Notre Dame Student Senate voted Sept. 17 to impeach St. Edward’s Hall senator Michael Heffernan after repeated absences, narrowly reaching the two-thirds threshold required for removal.

As Utah Valley University reviews what happened during the shooting of Charlie Kirk, it's hired an outside firm to help investigate, KSL has learned.

Jack Whitver, the Iowa Senate Majority Leader who has been battling a brain tumor for more than a year, will not seek re-election and will step aside as leader, he announced Tuesday.

Pennsylvania’s state Senate is set to return to Harrisburg Monday afternoon, but with no agreed-upon solution for a state budget impasse that is already 10 weeks old, Harrisburg politicos say not to expect much more than a business-as-usual legislative session.