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President Donald Trump began June with his Bible-clutching photo op outside a church after authorities used chemicals and batons to scatter peaceful demonstrators, and the month never got less jarring or divisive

A bill moving through the Senate Ways and Means Committee would create a new Police Officer Standards and Accreditation Committee that would certify law enforcement and be able to revoke or modify that certification, along with investigating misconduct complaints. Officers would need to be re-certified every three years, under the bill, and the committee would have to maintain a publicly…

Kentucky’s Democratic Senate primary to determine who challenges Republican Mitch McConnell has gone into overtime.

A Republican policing bill stalled out Wednesday, blocked in a vote by Senate Democrats who dismissed it as meager “crumbs.”

Crowds outside the Wisconsin State Capitol tore down two statues and attacked a state senator amid protests following the arrest of a Black man who was at a restaurant with a megaphone and a baseball bat.

The Senate has approved the nomination of a Mississippi judge to a federal appeals court, the 200th federal judge named by President Donald Trump and confirmed by the Republican-controlled chamber. It’s the highest number of judicial nominees confirmed at this stage of a presidency in four decades.

Senate Republicans have unveiled proposed changes to police procedures and accountability

Driven by a swift-moving national debate, Senate Republicans are on the brink of introducing an extensive package of policing changes

The Senate is at an impasse over a widely backed bill to designate lynching as a federal hate crime, and tempers boiled over on Thursday in an emotional debate cast against a backdrop of widespread protests over police treatment of African Americans.

Legislation to add new flexibility to a coronavirus relief program for small businesses is on its way to the White House for President Donald Trump’s signature after passing the Senate.

The Senate has confirmed a new inspector general to oversee money distributed as part of the $2 trillion economic rescue law

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., spars with Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin over the rules for companies taking money through the CARES Act and how they are held accountable for maintaining jobs.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin will likely come under tough questioning from senators Tuesday about a small business lending program included in the government’s $2 trillion relief package.

Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, and Secretary of the Treasury Steve Mnuchin went back and forth on the Trump administration’s desire to reopen the American economy and what precautions are in place to help protect workers as they get back to work.

The new chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Florida Republican Marco Rubio, will be overseeing a key vote as his first official act in the position

As leaders from Congress and the White House toiled in high-stakes negotiations on a mammoth $1 trillion-plus economic rescue package Friday, President Donald Trump unleashed fury over questions of his handling of the coronavirus outbreak

A Republican senator with access to some of the nation’s top secrets became further entangled in a deepening FBI investigation as agents examining a well-timed sale of stocks during the coronavirus outbreak showed up at his home with a warrant to search his cellphone.

Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, used his time during a Senate hearing on the coronavirus response to chide Admiral Brett Giroir for praising U.S. testing rates as infection rates continue to climb.

At a Senate hearing on Tuesday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., questioned Dr. Anthony Fauci about the possibility for a catastrophic resurgence of the coronavirus in the fall and winter, saying, “I wish we could tell the American people that the federal government has this pandemic under control, but we can’t.”