The low-drama South Dakotan has arrived at the apex of power in the Senate just as Donald Trump is exerting his own executive authority. Will Thune draw a line?

An afternoon vote was expected to clear the way for a Republican-written bill to keep government funding flowing past ...

With a majority of his caucus revolting against him and activists furious, the longtime Democratic leader faces calls to step ...

The Senate on Friday narrowly averted a government shutdown at midnight, passing a GOP-written stopgap spending measure after ...

After days of Democratic agonizing, the Senate voted to keep federal funds flowing through Sept. 30 just hours before a ...

The US Senate appeared closer Friday to avoiding an economically damaging government funding shutdown after the Democrats' ...

Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman also backed the bill, and other Democrats, wary of being blamed for a shutdown without a ...

President Trump assailed in biblical terms the “weaponization” of the Justice Department under his predecessor, Joseph R. Biden Jr., saying during a meandering speech in the Great Hall of the ...

WASHINGTON – It's a bad week to be a Senate Democrat.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate finds itself on Friday in a familiar position, working to avoid a partial government shutdown with just hours to spare as Democrats confront two painful options: allowing ...

The US government was hours from shutting down Friday as Democrats smarting over President Donald Trump's spending cuts ...