- Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey has been charged in a federal corruption indictment, authorities said Friday (22
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After weeks of political impasse, tense negotiations and mounting economic anxiety, the Senate on Thursday (June 1) night gave final approval to bipartisan legislation suspending the debt limit and imposing new spending caps, sending it to…
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Debate on a bipartisan bill to suspend the debt limit and impose spending caps moved Thursday (June 1) to the Senate, where leaders of both parties were racing to shut down efforts to derail it in time to clear it for President Joe Biden’s…
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Sen. Raphael Warnock defeated his Republican challenger, Herschel Walker, in a runoff election Tuesday (6) that capped a gruelling and costly campaign, secured a 51-seat Democratic majority and gave the first Black senator from Georgia a…
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Republicans secured a slender majority in the House of Representatives on Wednesday (16), a delayed yet consequential finish to the 2022 midterm elections that will reorder the balance of power in Washington and is expected to effectively…
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Democrats sealed control of the Senate on Saturday (12) as Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada narrowly defeated Adam Laxalt, a Republican former state attorney general, a decisive moment in an extraordinary midterm election in which…
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Americans on Tuesday (8) cast the final ballots in US midterm elections that will determine whether Democrats lose control of Congress, and with it the ability to push forward on President Joe Biden's agenda in the next two years
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The two parties’ strongest messengers — a fraternity of recent presidents — descended on the pivotal swing state of Pennsylvania on Saturday (5) to open the last weekend of this year’s midterms, rallying their voters in a proxy battle that…
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The Senate passed legislation Sunday (7) that would make the most significant federal investment in history to counter climate change and lower the cost of prescription drugs, as Democrats banded together to push through major pieces of…
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Senate negotiators announced Sunday (12) they had agreed on a bipartisan outline for a narrow set of gun safety measures with sufficient support to move through the evenly divided chamber, a significant step toward ending a years-long…
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