Former Democratic North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper announced he is running for Senate, bolstering Democrats' hopes of winning a Senate race in the Tar Heel State for the first time in nearly two decades.

Senate Republicans say President Trump has made it clear he doesn’t want a government shutdown, and they’re urging House GOP lawmakers to tone down their approach to the Sept. 30 funding deadline. House Republicans jammed Senate Democrats in March with a partisan funding bill,

Several Republican state senators from Philadelphia and the surrounding region last week debuted potential new accountability measures for SEPTA, in an effort to improve the system and quell concerns from other Senate GOP colleagues who oppose any funding increases for the struggling transit agency.

Georgia's 2026 Senate race creates conflict between Trump advisers and Gov. Kemp, who floated Derek Dooley as a potential Republican candidate to challenge Democrat Ossoff.

Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin tried to rope Barack Obama into Donald Trump's Jeffrey Epstein scandal. It went horribly awry.

Nominations and appropriations remain at the forefront of the Senate's agenda for the final scheduled workweek before August recess.

The political divide over documents related to the late Jeffrey Epstein grew in the Senate this week, when Democrats pushed for transparency while Republicans argued Congress has limited power to release the files.