Senate confirms US ambassador to Russia

There is no justifying the actions of Central Intelligence Agency officials who surreptitiously hacked into a computer network used by the Senate intelligence committee. This is clearly a breach of the separation of powers under the U.S.

(This post has been updated.) And we reiterate, nothing in Congress is ever, ever certain. Just as it appeared the Senate was going home leaving the U.S. embassy in Moscow without an ambassador, GOP senators had a late-night change of heart and ...

The phase-out of one of the main chemicals used to control fruit fly is seen as 'inevitable' by a Senate committee. The Senate Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Committee has investigated the future of fenthion use in Australian ...

07/31/2014 Some Democrats and progressives are putting pressure on Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to retire while the Senate and White House are still in Democratic control. Laura Bassett, Political Reporter for The Huffington Post, joins Chris Hayes

The US Senate voted down legislation that would fund $2.7 billion in appropriations for addressing the tens of thousands of migrant children flooding the US border. US Senate legislation giving President Obama $2.7 billion to deal with tens of ...

Washington -- CIA officers improperly accessed Senate computers, read the e-mails of Senate staff, and exhibited a "lack of candor" when interviewed by agency investigators, according to a declassified CIA inspector general's report. The ...

LAHORE - PPP Senator Farhatullah Babar says former president Pervez Musharraf must be punished for violating the Constitution. In a TV programme, he said it was regrettable that before putting the former president on trial on high treason charge the ...

By and Ashley Halsey III , In a sprint to the finish line before a five-week break, the Senate on Thursday night approved bills to aid the troubled Department of Veterans Affairs and to extend federal highway funding through May. On veterans ...

Senate Republicans blocked a $2.7 billion border spending bill Thursday in a 50-44 vote. The Senate voted against waiving a budget point of order on the measure, which would have provided funding for authorities to handle a wave of child ...