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;

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 second day of the Senate session in Harrisburg ended with no budget deal and no public debate on the issue, as Pennsylvania lawmakers remain without a decision more than two months past the state’s budget deadline.

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 ...

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.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — The Pennsylvania Senate will be in voting session this Tuesday as the state legislature continues to hash out the budget, which was due June 30. “It is important that we ensure the needs of Pennsylvanians are addressed by ...

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.

A longtime Republican lawmaker who will not seek reelection next year still has a few policies he wants to check off before leaving office. In a recent interview with the Kentucky Lantern, Sen. Jimmy Higdon,

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.