U.S. Senate

Less than a week before Election Day, the CEOs of Twitter, Facebook and Google are set to be grilled by Republican senators making unfounded allegations that the tech giants show anti-conservative bias.

The Senate is expected to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court on Monday after a highly partisan, rushed process. George Washington University Law Professor Paul Schiff Berman argues that her confirmation under these circumstances threatens the legitimacy of the Supreme Court and stability in the U.S.

Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell and Democratic challenger Amy McGrath have sparred over the federal response to the coronavirus crisis in a hard-hitting televised debate

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker has decided to back Republican Maine Sen. Susan Collins in her hotly contested re-election campaign. According to the Boston Globe, the Republican governor will appear in a series of ads funded by a GOP super PAC supporting the embattled U.S. senator. The campaign also features Republican Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan. Collins, who is seeking a...

A Republican and a Democratic senator say Congress should give the nation’s highest civilian honor posthumously to Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley.

A debate has been scheduled in the state’s U.S. Senate race pitting Democratic incumbent Sen. Edward Markey against Republican challenger Kevin O’Connor. GBH News will host the debate at 7 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 5, at the station’s studio in the Brighton neighborhood of Boston following social distancing guidelines. O’Connor faces a daunting challenge in a state that leans...

NBC10 Boston, Telemundo Boston and NECN will host the first of three televised U.S. Senate Democratic debates scheduled for the summer of 2020. The debate with U.S. Sen. Ed Markey and challenger, U.S. Rep. Joe Kennedy, will be held on Sunday, July 26, from 7 to 8 p.m. from a secure and closed studio inside the NBCUniversal Boston Media Center…

NBC10 Boston, Telemundo Boston and NECN will host the first of three televised U.S. Senate Democratic candidates scheduled for the summer of 2020. And we want to know what questions you’d like to ask the candidates. The debate with U.S. Sen. Ed Markey and challenger, U.S. Rep. Joe Kennedy, will be held on Sunday, July 26, from 7 to 8…

The Republican chairman leading a Senate hearing into the country’s response to the coronavirus pandemic urged colleagues not to point fingers during Tuesday’s two-hour session.

It’s only taken weeks for the coronavirus, the economic shutdown and President Donald Trump’s stumbles addressing the crises to scramble this fall’s battle for Senate control

Advocates for and against President Donald Trump are giving no ground in the shadow of his Senate impeachment trial. The president’s defenders are arguing that his pressure on Ukraine broke no U.S., law, so it wasn’t impeachable in the first place. The House Democrats who are prosecuting the abuse and obstruction charges say there need be no crime and that...

President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski said Tuesday that he is forgoing a run for U.S. Senate in New Hampshire. Lewandowski, a Republican, said on Twitter that his “priorities remain my family and ensuring that @realDonaldTrump is re-elected POTUS.” “While taking on a career politician from the Washington swamp is a tall order, I am certain I would have...

The dean of the U.S. Senate Thursday called on his colleagues to serve as the “conscience of the country,” and to put the Constitution ahead of politics when it comes to the impeachment of President Donald Trump. “I take a solemn oath to uphold the law and follow my conscience,” said Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont. “Otherwise, why be in...

Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., called on his colleagues to be the “conscience of the country” and to put the Constitution ahead of politics when it comes to the impeachment of President Donald Trump.

A group of House Republicans is seeking the Nobel Peace Prize for President Donald Trump because of his work to ease nuclear tensions with North Korea. Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un are working out the details of a historic summit that could take place by the end of May or early June. Yet an agreement by which...

Opponents of Republican U.S. Senator Kelly Ayotte launched a new round of attacks Tuesday following a debate gaffe where she said she “absolutely” considers Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump a role model, a comment she later took back.

Candidates are getting off to an early start as New Hampshire voters choose their nominees for governor, U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives.

New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan was not injured when her state vehicle was involved in a crash on Thursday afternoon.

Charles Monroe, 18, faces aggravated rape, other charges