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Despite never declaring her intention to run, Lara Trump is leading the North Carolina Senate campaign.

“We need to understand this universe and recognize that freedom of expression cannot be confused with aggression, violence, or threat,” tweeted Brazil’s Senate head David Alcolumbre.

The senate’s views come as a stark contrast from U.S. President Donald Trump’s stance that fixated on holding China responsible for an attempted cover-up while also accusing WHO of being a “puppet” of the Asian superpower.

He played 20 long memorable seasons in Major League Baseball, and now Curt Schilling plans on taking his talents to the political world. Or so he says.

Rubio and conservative allies failed to sabotage the U.S.-Iran peace deal after the Senate watered down a review bill

Bipartisan support for the TPP has steamrolled bipartisan opposition for a bill that won’t be debated, and is likely to win an up-or-down vote.

Support for the sanctions is strong in Congress, but the Obama administration says it would act on its own if it saw them as necessary.

14 Democrats wrote to Obama expressing support for the administration's opposition to sanctions, but Congressional support is full-throated.

South American ambassadors called a bill which has garnered bipartisan support in the US Senate an intervention in Venezuela's internal affairs.

The secretary of state warned that protesters could soon return to the streets and made reference to sanctions legislation moving through the Senate.

A one-time inspector general responsible for oversight of the Department of Homeland Security has been found to have had an improperly close -- and insufficiently independent -- relationship with top DHS officials.

Senators in the PRD, PT and the PAN have today rejected the opinion document drafted by Javier Lozano Alarcón for the new telecom bill.

The fifteen Hondurans say they came to Mexico City after getting sick of waiting near the Mexico-Guatemala border to receive a response on a humanitarian visa which could allow them to pass legally through Mexico on their way to the US.

The Speaker of the House said that his Republican majority will not conference any of their immigration reform legislation with the larger bill passed by the Senate in June. Chances of legislation which extends a path to citizenship for most of the nation’s 11.7 million undocumented immigrants look a lot slimmer.

The Florida senator helped write the Senate overhaul which House Republicans have rejected. Now, Rubio is saying his fellow Republicans in the House should be accommodated in their insistence that the issue be undertaken one small bill at a time.

Senate leaders announced on Wednesday that they have reached a deal to end the government shutdown and avoid a possible U.S. default. The Senate deal will reopen the government, funding it until January 15.

John McCain plays poker during crucial Syria Senate meeting; offensive or not?

This past August, Canada welcomed the first skilled-trades immigrants to be allowed entry under refitted criteria. The architects of the Senate’s comprehensive immigration bill say they crafted their legislation with an eye on their northern neighbor’s own series of 2010 immigration bills overhauling the system.

The Arizona senator says the "border surge" amendment in the Senate bill could be amended in a House compromise, but the path to citizenship is not negotiable.

A group of 20 pro-immigration reform lawmakers from the House and Senate are touring immigration-related sites in New York City this weekend. The trip includes a meeting with Mayor Michael Bloomberg at the Gracie Mansion and a stop at Ellis Island.

House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has repeatedly said that he would not introduce the Senate immigration reform bill to the House floor, citing opposition from the majority of his party. Can a rare legislative mechanism force a vote on it anyway?

The comprehensive immigration reform bill passed the Senate with 68 votes on Thursday afternoon, but House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) reiterated his earlier refusal to introduce any legislation on the House floor unless the majority of Republicans supported it.

The Senate will vote today to proceed to debate on the Corker-Hoeven amendment, which provides for an extra 700 miles of fencing along the border, over 20,000 more Border Patrol agents, and $3.2 billion in funding for surveillance and detection technology.

Nitza Quiñones Alejandro is the first openly gay Latina elected to a federal judgeship by the US Senate.

The Democratic senator from Virginia made history yesterday after delivering a speech on the Senate floor entirely in Spanish.

Every Senate Democrat voted in favor of the motion to move the bill along to consideration by the full Senate, along with all but 15 of the 45 Senate Republicans.

The immigration reform bill will come to a vote in the Senate on June 10. Meet the seven Democrats who may not vote for it.

Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J. died Monday at age 89.

Anti-amnesty and anti-immigration groups have begun campaigns against the comprehensive immigration reform bill, which would give a path to citizenship for many of the nation's estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants.

Harry Reid and Ted Cruz do not seem to be very close 'friends', despite Reid's label for the Texas Republican.