Cory Booker

Investor optimism over the possibility of federal cannabis legalization has contributed to a strong rally in beaten-down pot stocks.

Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey drew tears from Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson at her Supreme Court hearing with the words, “You are worthy,” and others like them.

“I’m not letting anybody in the Senate steal my joy,” Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., told Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. “I just look at you, and I start getting full of emotion.”

“This is not normal. It’s never happened before,” Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., said. “We are on the precipice of shattering another glass ceiling … I just feel this sense of overwhelming joy.”

Three members of Congress announced Sunday that they had tested positive for breakthrough infections of COVID-19.

New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker praised the president for his handling of the pandemic and accused Republicans of spreading misinformation while headlining a Democratic Party fundraiser in New Hampshire Saturday. Booker spoke to several hundred Democratic faithful who gathered in Manchester for the New Hampshire Democratic Party’s first major in-person event since the beginning of the pandemic. A virtual...

Senate negotiators say bipartisan congressional talks on overhauling policing practices have ended without agreement

Democrats and Republicans have failed to come to a police reform agreement after the loudest outcry in years over killings of Black Americans.

Wednesday may have been one of the most consequential days of President Joe Biden’s first term in office.

A day before families are set to receive their first advance child tax credit payment, a group of Democratic lawmakers are calling for it to be made permanent.

The racial wealth gap in the U.S. is more of a chasm. “Baby bonds” have become one proposal to help close the great divide.

Regina LaBelle, the acting director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, urged “swift passage” of the EQUAL Act.

A group of senators proposed a plan Monday to get rid of the co-called step-up in basis and tax unrealized capital gains at death.

Democrats push to make $3,000 child tax credit permanent as new research shows expanded credit lifts 10 million children above or closer to the poverty line.

The senators said the AI-equipped cameras from Netradyne raise privacy and surveillance concerns.

Many states have legalized marijuana to some degree. A trio of senators wants to repeal the federal cannabis prohibition and provide relief for pot convictions.

Sen. Cory Booker speaks about the confirmation hearings for Judge Amy Coney Barrett to be appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Supreme Court Nominee Amy Coney Barrett chose not to answer questions posed to her by Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., during Wednesday’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., made the case for delaying the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court until after the elections, saying, “What is going on in America today, in the midst of a deadly pandemic, in an ongoing election, having a rushed Supreme Court nomination hearing is not normal and we cannot normalize it.”

Former candidates for the Democratic nomination for President gather to discuss how they feel about Joe Biden.