Tracking congressional retirement announcements | AP News
Ahead of next year’s midterms, a number of members from both major parties have already announced they’re heading…
Senate nearer to a deal to end government shutdown
The U.S. Senate on Monday drew closer to ending the U.S. government shutdown after a small group of…
Shutdown reaches its 40th day as senators work through a crucial weekend
WASHINGTON (AP) — The government shutdown stretched into its 40th day Sunday even as senators stayed in Washington…
Trump signals no shutdown compromise with Democrats
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate’s first weekend session since the beginning of the shutdown yielded few signs of…
Orbán says Trump will not punish Hungary for buying Russian energy
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán says his country has received an exemption from U.S. sanctions…
Senate Democrats reject government funding bill over health care
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats rejected for the 10th time Thursday a stopgap spending bill that would reopen…
European countries near Russia puzzled by US plans to cut defense funding
WASHINGTON (AP) — Confusion emerged Friday over Trump administration plans to halt some security assistance funding to European…
Trump administration weighs fate of $9M stockpile of contraceptives feared earmarked for destruction
BRUSSELS – President Donald Trump’s administration says it is weighing what to do with family planning supplies stockpiled…
Trump casts doubt over US abiding by NATO mutual defense guarantee
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday injected some uncertainty over whether the U.S. would abide by…
As Trump goes to G7 summit, other world leaders aim to show they’re not intimidated
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has long bet that he can scare allies into submission — a…
Rubio and Democratic senators spar over foreign policy
WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Democratic senators sparred Tuesday over the Trump administration’s foreign…
Senate panel leaders back Trump’s lifting of sanctions on Syria
The leaders of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday offered rare bipartisan support for an executive action…