The top two Republicans in Congress are showing no interest in taking the unprecedented step of ending the legislative filibuster, just hours after President Donald Trump made a fresh demand for the Senate to do so to end the government shutdown.

Campaign endorsements are coming in for two Democrats hoping to unseat Republican incumbent U.S. Senator John Cornyn.Fort Worth Congressman Marc Veasey is endorsing former Congressman Colin Allred of Dallas in his bid for the U.

Senate Republicans are resisting his demand to end the long-standing filibuster rule in order to end the government shutdown.

Republicans and Democrats remained at a stalemate on the government shutdown over the weekend as it headed into its sixth week, with millions of Americans starting to lose food aid benefits and President Donald Trump pushing GOP leaders to

The Senate voted Thursday to approve a resolution that would block President Trump's tariffs on countries around the world, the third in a trio of rebukes of the president's trade policy this week.

The Senate on Thursday passed a resolution aimed at ending President Donald Trump’s global tariffs introduced last spring, with four Senate Republicans joining Democrats to object to the president’s trade policy.

In an interview with NBC News, Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner bashed "establishment politics" and said he's still more electable than Democratic rival Janet Mills.

Setti Warren, the former mayor of Newton who also ran for governor in Massachusetts and the U.S. Senate, died unexpectedly at his home.

Shades of optimism filled the Senate this past week as bipartisan talks on a way out of the government shutdown increased.