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Lawmakers this year kicked rival colleagues out of office in Tennessee and off the chamber floor in Montana.

A special Italian court has shut down a probe into whether the country’s former premier and former health minister caused unnecessary deaths by failing to extend a lockdown zone in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic.

Transgender minors and some adults soon will be banned from accessing puberty blockers, hormones and gender-affirming surgeries under a bill signed by Missouri’s Republican governor.

Oregon Democratic lawmakers stood on the steps of the state Capitol and implored Republicans, who have been boycotting the Senate for over a month, to return and vote on bills.

Wisconsin Republicans still reeling from an April election that saw conservatives lose majority control of the state Supreme Court hope to use their upcoming state convention to unify and refocus on the looming presidential race in which Wisconsin will once again be a battleground.

Perhaps most critical to locking up the debt-limit deal were President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s five handpicked negotiators, three men and two women unknown to most outside government.

A Republican measure overturning President Joe Biden’s student loan cancellation plan has passed the Senate and now awaits an expected veto.

Hard-fought to the end, the debt ceiling and budget cuts package is heading toward a crucial U.S. House vote.

President Joe Biden says he “feels good” about the debt ceiling and budget deal negotiated with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

Russia’s Interior Ministry has issued an arrest warrant for U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham following his comments related to the fighting in Ukraine.

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and her Chinese counterpart, Wang Wentao, have expressed concern about policies of each other’s governments following Chinese raids on consulting firms and U.S. restrictions on exports of semiconductor technology.

The CROWN Act, also known as Senate Bill 90, was introduced by Sen. Sarah Anthony in 2019, and will now move to the full Senate for consideration since it was passed by the Michigan Civil Rights, Judiciary, and Public Safety.

The only five women in South Carolina’s 46-member Senate have vowed to resist new abortion restrictions up for debate after the group filibustered a near-total ban last month.

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Before Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman checked himself in to a hospital for clinical depression in February, he used to walk the halls of the Senate stone-faced and dressed in formal suits.

The political divide affecting the United States is hitting Oregon hard.

Michigan's revenue is expected to be nearly $900 million less this fiscal year than had been previously forecasted in January due to an income tax rate reduction and corporate tax incentives, state officials said Friday.

Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s office says she is suffering from Ramsay Hunt syndrome, a complication from the shingles virus that can paralyze part of the face.

Top negotiators from the White House have met over the debt limit with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s emissaries at the Capitol.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says Congress “must move quickly” to regulate artificial intelligence and has convened a bipartisan group of senators to work on legislation.

Work requirements for federal aid programs have emerged as a sticking point in ongoing negotiations over raising the nation’s debt ceiling, and President Joe Biden has signaled openness to a possible compromise even as many in his party have balked.

As more Southern states pass new restrictions on abortion, Virginia is poised to become an outlier in the region for its relatively permissive laws.

The Senate has voted to overturn a District of Columbia law enacted last year to improve police accountability, the second time this year that Democrats have joined with Republicans to try and block the district’s crime regulations.

President Joe Biden has vetoed a congressional resolution that would have reinstated tariffs on solar panel imports from Southeast Asia.

North Carolina’s Republican-controlled legislature will attempt to quickly override the governor’s veto of legislation banning nearly all abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy.

A boycott by Republican state senators in Oregon threatens to derail dozens of bills, including on gun control and abortion rights, as a deadline looms that could also upend the protesters’ political futures.

Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville is facing backlash for remarks he made about white nationalists in an interview about his blockade of military nominees.

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell says he won’t support a fellow GOP senator’s blockade of military nominees, backing Democrats and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin who have said that the holdup is harming national security.

California Sen. Dianne Feinstein has returned to the Senate after a two-and-a-half-month absence recovering from a case of shingles.

A Senate panel has approved a rail-safety measure in response to the train derailment earlier this year in East Palestine, Ohio.

President Joe Biden is aiming to showcase the Democratic coalition rallying around his reelection bid.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein is returning to Washington after a more than two-month absence led to calls from within her own party for the oldest member of Congress to resign.

Most Democrats and Republicans agree that the federal government should better regulate the biggest technology companies, particularly social media platforms.

The acting head of the Federal Aviation Administration is warning that deep cuts in federal spending could make summer air travel worse.

Republicans who have blocked bills about abortion, gun control and gender-affirming health care in Oregon for the third straight day are basing their boycott on an obscure, 44-year-old state law that requires bill summaries to be written at the reading level of an eighth- or ninth-grader.

Partisan tensions in Oregon are skyrocketing this week because Republican state senators haven't shown up to work for two days, meaning the Democrats who control the chamber don't have enough people to lawfully convene.

The Senate has approved a measure that would reinstate tariffs on solar panel imports from several Southeast Asian countries after President Joe Biden paused them in a bid to boost solar installations in the U.S. Lawmakers also approved a separate plan late Wednesday to undo federal protections for the lesser prairie chicken, a rare grouse that’s found in parts of the Midwest and Southwest, including one of the country’s most prolific oil and gas fields.

Senate Democrats have launched a new legislative effort aimed at taking on China.

Florida Republicans have approved bills to ban diversity programs in colleges and prevent students and teachers from being required to use pronouns that don’t correspond to someone’s sex, building on top priorities of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Hawaii lawmakers failed to pass a bill that would have made tourists help pay for the protection of Hawaii’s forests and wildlife even though the idea has widespread public and political support.

North Carolina Republican legislative leaders say there is agreement within their chambers on backing a measure that would prohibit abortion in nearly all cases after roughly the first trimester of pregnancy.

The Minnesota Senate has voted legalize recreational marijuana for adults.

The House voted Friday to reinstate tariffs on solar panel imports from several Southeast Asian countries.

The South Carolina Senate is no closer to passing a near-total abortion ban than the last time they shot down the proposal.

Senate Republicans on Thursday blocked a Democratic measure to revive the Equal Rights Amendment, dealing yet another blow to supporters who have pushed for more than five decades to amend the Constitution to prohibit discrimination based on sex.

President Joe Biden’s nomination for the next labor secretary, Julie Su, has advanced through a Senate committee.

In campaign 2024, Democrats are looking to find a successor for one of their top House candidates as they try to retake the majority in the House.

In campaign 2024, Democrats are looking to find a successor for one of their top House candidates as they try to retake the majority in the House.

Former Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt, a longtime Donald Trump ally, will help lead a political action committee that's encouraging Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to seek the Republican presidential nomination in 2024.

The Minnesota Senate has waded into the culture wars.

The Senate has passed legislation to reauthorize federal grants for local fire departments.

Chances are shrinking fast for a key gun-control proposal to make it out of the Tennessee Legislature.

President Joe Biden’s nominee to be the next labor secretary, Julie Su, won praise at her Senate confirmation hearing as “a champion of the working class.”.

The Senate has rejected a Republican effort to reverse a Department of Veterans Affairs policy that would expand some abortion services to veterans regardless of state laws, a victory for President Joe Biden and Democrats who say the services are necessary medical care.

After passing in the state Senate Wednesday, red flag legislation is now headed to Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s desk.

Republicans are jump-starting an immigration and border enforcement package.

Republicans have blocked a Democratic request to temporarily replace California Sen. Dianne Feinstein on the Senate Judiciary Committee, leaving Democrats with few options for moving some of President Joe Biden’s stalled judicial nominees.

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell is back at work in the U.S. Capitol, almost six weeks after a fall at a Washington-area hotel and undergoing extended treatment for a concussion.

Several gun reform bills were signed into law Thursday by Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, establishing universal background checks and gun storage requirements amid a push for action against growing gun violence.

Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed into law a bill approved by the Republican-dominated Florida Legislature to ban abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s monthslong absence from the Senate has become a growing problem for Democrats.

Authorities say they've arrested a suspect who made threats against California's Capitol on Thursday shot a gun from his vehicle while driving through two Sacramento suburbs the night before.

Several gun reform bills were signed into law Thursday by Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, establishing universal background checks and gun storage requirements amid a push for action against growing gun violence.

Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin is seeking a third term in battleground Wisconsin.

Silvio Berlusconi’s doctor, who is treating him for a lung infection, says the former Italian premier is responding well to treatment in an intensive care unit at a Milan hospital.

Republican legislators in Kansas have approved a proposal to end gender-affirming care for transgender youth.

Doctors for Italian former Premier Silvio Berlusconi say he is being treated in hospital for a lung infection that is a result of chronic leukemia.

Indiana and Idaho are banning transgender children from accessing gender-affirming care after Republican governors in those states signed bans into law on Wednesday.

Nearly four decades have passed since federal immigration laws got a major rewrite.

The majority-white and Republican-led Mississippi Legislature is taking final steps to expand the territory of a state-run police department inside Jackson.

While he’s far from the only U.S. president to be dogged by legal and ethical scandals, Donald Trump now occupies a unique place in history as the first ever indicted on criminal charges.

A person close to Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman says he'll return to the Senate in April, two months after the freshman Democrat sought inpatient treatment for clinical depression.

Public outrage is swift following mass shootings such as the one that killed six people at a Nashville elementary school.

The Senate has voted to repeal the decades-old congressional measure that greenlighted the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell says he opposes repeal of the 2002 and 1991 authorizations of force against Iraq, arguing that that authority “bears directly on the threats we face today in Iraq and Syria from Iran-backed terrorists.”.

The October 2002 votes in the House and Senate to authorize war with Iraq were grave moments in American history that would have reverberations for decades.

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell says has been released from the rehabilitation facility where he had physical therapy for a concussion caused by a fall earlier this month.

South Carolina's Republican-controlled Senate is moving to bar citizens of a “foreign adversary” from buying property in the state in an anti-espionage measure that critics fear will chill overseas investments over outsize concerns.

Leaders of the Senate’s banking committee are telling former chief executive officers at the failed Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank they “must answer” for their banks' "downfall.”.

South Carolina's embattled top accountant will resign next month after a $3.5 billion accounting error in the year-end financial report he oversaw.

The Senate has voted overwhelmingly to continue congressional authorization for the use of military force in the global fight against terror, turning back an effort by Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul to repeal the 2001 measure.

On Wednesday, the chair of the Michigan Republican Party went in front of cameras to defend a Tweet comparing gun reforms to the horrors of the Holocaust.

A bipartisan consensus that Congress should act to toughen regulations on railroads is emerging in the U.S. Senate.

Democrats in the Michigan Senate approved a 11-bill gun safety package Thursday that includes red flag laws and requirements for safe storage and universal background checks.

President Joe Biden’s signature on a measure nullifying the recent overhaul of the District of Columbia criminal code marked the end of one bruising public fight between Congress and local lawmakers.

President Joe Biden has signed into law legislation officially nullifying the recent overhaul of the District of Columbia criminal code.

Missouri's Republican attorney general says his office will limit access to gender-affirming care for minors.

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A retired Air Force officer who stormed the U.S. Capitol dressed in combat gear and carried zip-tie handcuffs into the Senate gallery has been sentenced to two years in prison.

A proposed six-week abortion ban is advancing in Florida, where Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has indicated support for the restrictions as he prepares a potential presidential run.

The Senate has taken a first step toward repealing two measures that give open-ended approval for military action in Iraq.

Republican lawmakers in Kentucky have passed a measure to ban gender-affirming care for transgender minors.

The Senate has confirmed former Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti as the next ambassador to India, more than a year and a half after he was initially selected for the post.

Republicans who control the Wisconsin Legislature are proposing rape and incest exceptions to the state’s 1849 abortion ban and clarifying when abortions that protect the health of the mother would be allowed.

With Tuesday’s vote, Michigan is one step closer to becoming the first state to repeal a right-to-work law in decades.

The Michigan Senate has approved legislation to repeal the state's “right-to-work” law, further advancing one of Democrats' top legislative goals since taking control of the state government this year.

The state Senate has just voted to repeal Michigan’s right-to-work law.

Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego is slamming independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema for backing a bank deregulation bill he says contributed to the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank.

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell has been released from the hospital after treatment for a concussion and will continue to recover in an inpatient rehabilitation facility.

In Michigan, it is legal for medical students to practice pelvic and prostate exams on patients who are unconscious or under anesthesia without the patient’s knowledge or consent.