Senate votes for massive defense policy bill, creating Space Force
The U.S. Senate looked set to vote overwhelmingly on Tuesday to pass a $738 billion defense policy bill, sending it to the White House, where...
Top Senate Republican opposes demand for witnesses in Trump impeachment trial
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday brushed aside a Democratic request to call four current and former White House officials as witnesses in a...
Top Senate Republican blasts House impeachment effort against Trump
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday signaled opposition to a Democratic request to call new witnesses in a Senate trial expected next month...
McConnell suggests Senate will not call witnesses requested by Democrats in impeachment trial
U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday appeared to reject a request from the Senate’s top Democrat to call new witnesses in the expected...
U.S. Democratic debate to proceed after labor dispute settled
Negotiators reached a tentative deal to end a labor dispute that had threatened this week’s Democratic presidential debate, allowing the event bringing together seven top...
U.S. lawmakers set to hammer out rules for Trump impeachment vote
Democrats and Republicans were set to grapple on Tuesday over the rules of engagement for a historic vote set for Wednesday in the U.S. House...
Trump poised to sign massive government spending bill: White House
U.S. President Donald Trump supports massive government spending plans hammered out by Congress this week and plans to sign the $1.4 trillion budget bill into...
Warren targets shell companies to combat global financial corruption
U.S. companies would no longer be able to hide behind state laws that allow them to register without disclosing the owner’s name under a broad...
UK PM Johnson opens first cabinet meeting
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told the first meeting of senior ministers in his new government on Tuesday that they “ain’t seen nothing yet folks”...
Trump ex-campaign aide Gates to be sentenced after helping prosecutors
Having delivered testimony that helped convict Republican operatives Roger Stone and Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump’s former deputy campaign chairman Rick Gates will be sentenced...