A group of U.S. senators introduced on Thursday the first Senate resolution to urge recognition of a Palestinian state, further signaling a shift in Washington sentiment toward Israel nearly two years into its war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

A Republican challenger for a Mississippi seat in the U.S. Senate called on President Donald Trump to send the National Guard to Jackson. The call to action by Sarah Adlakha follows the Trump administration’s possible troop deployments beyond Washington,

In using the nuclear option, John Thune has turned a Senate precedent on its head, defying his reputation as an institutionalist.

The U.S. Senate voted on Thursday to confirm the top auto safety official along with dozens of other nominees, including officials overseeing highways and pipelines.

Several Democratic senators have put forward a Senate resolution urging US recognition of a Palestinian state. The move marks a visible shift in US politics.

U.S. senators are expected to vote Friday on competing stopgap bills that both aim to temporarily fund the government past the Sept. 30 deadline, according to POLITICO.

NOAA kept a database of disasters that exceeded $1 billion in damage since 1980, but the agency halted the project amid funding cuts by the Trump administration.

Two former leaders of the CDC disputed HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy’s version of their departure in August during a Senate hearing on Wednesday.

President Donald Trump is inviting fresh congressional scrutiny over his power as commander in chief with a crackdown on drug smuggling off the coast of Venezuela. In the coming weeks, Democrats will force a vote on Trump’s authority to sink boats that he says are run by “narcoterrorists” trafficking drugs into the United States,