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Small donors are throwing so much cash at candidates, and wasting a fair amount of it, that old assumptions about the influence of money are flying out the window.

Alabama’s Republican primary for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by retiring U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby is a bitter high-dollar fight between three candidates.

The Senate has whisked a $40 billion package of military, economic and food aid for Ukraine and U.S. allies to final congressional approval.

The anti-abortion rights movement is preparing to shift the fight from the nation's highest court to state houses across the country.

All Democrats and most Republicans rallied behind the latest, and possibly not last, U.S. financial salvo against Russia’s invasion.

Congress has bestowed its highest honor on merchant mariners who fought in World War II, almost eight decades after the conflict in which more than 8,000 of them were killed.

Insider asked McConnell if he believes Democrats are seeking to change the electorate through immigration. He pivoted to talking about Title 42.

Some 260 Ukrainian fighters have left the Azovstal steel plant, but it’s unclear how many more remain.

Signs of Republican resistance are mounting over a $40 billion aid package to Ukraine.

The House and Senate primaries to watch in the 2022 midterm elections.

Ukrainian officials say the regiment that doggedly defended a steel mill as Ukraine’s last stronghold in the port city of Mariupol has completed its mission.

The GOP leader spoke from Stockholm following a trip to Kyiv. He backed Sweden and Finland joining NATO and pushed back on more isolationist voices in his party.

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell and a delegation of GOP senators are due to visit Helsinki on Monday for talks with Finland’s president as the previously neutral Nordic nation bordering Russia seeks NATO membership.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky celebrated Kalush Orchestra’s win in the Eurovision song contest as the war raged at home.

The unannounced trip to Kyiv by McConnell’s delegation was the latest in a parade of high-level western officials that has included first lady Jill Biden, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

The trip came at a time when the Senate is working to approve a nearly $40 billion package for Ukraine.

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell says senators who visited Ukraine on Saturday have reaffirmed that the U.S. will back Ukraine until it wins its war with Russia.

The senators travelled to Ukraine days before the Senate is expected to pass a $40 billion package of military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called the visit a signal of bipartisan support from the U.S. Congress. The meeting took place as Ukraine said it had forced Russian troops away from Kharkiv.

Senators John Barrasso, John Cornyn, and Susan Collins were among the group, according to a video posted on social media.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell led a delegation of Republican senators to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv.

The NWS filmed a straight-lined wind storm system moving through Sioux Falls on May 12, 2022.

Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) blocked the passage of the $39.8 billion House-passed Ukraine aid after Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) presented a unanimous consent on behalf of himself and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell today. Schumer urged Paul to pass the bill and claimed that the Senator from Kentucky wanted to add certain changes directly to the bill, which have been opposed by members of both parties. Paul asserted that the aid amount will almost equal the entire military budget of Russia and that the U.S. will have to borrow the money from China to send it to Ukraine.

Senate's top Republican says the Supreme Court's role is to protect basic rights, even when majorities are in favor of something else. "That happens all the time."

Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul is defying leaders of both parties and has single-handedly delayed until next week Senate approval of an additional $40 billion to help Ukraine and its allies withstand Russia’s three-month old invasion.

Final congressional approval of a $40 billion Ukraine aid bill seems certain within days.

The Senate has fallen far short in a vote toward enshrining Roe v.

A test vote in the Senate on a Democratic bill to protect access to abortions is expected to fail, blocked by a Republican-led filibuster.

Senators will vote on the Women's Health Protection Act on Wednesday, but it likely will fail because there isn't enough support to reach the 60 votes necessary.

The House has emphatically approved a fresh $40 billion Ukraine aid package that beefs up President Joe Biden’s initial request.

Fighting for decades over abortion policy, Congress is about to run into the political limits of its ability to act in either direction on the issue.

President Joe Biden is warning voters unhappy with soaring inflation and his stalled domestic agenda against turning power over to “ultra-MAGA” Republicans in the midterm elections.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s appearance before a Senate committee took an unexpected and tense detour into the abortion debate Tuesday when senators questioned her about the potential impact of an abortion ban on the American economy.

Republican candidates and strategists are increasingly confident that such a decision would not seriously harm the GOP’s chances of regaining House and Senate majorities come November, as Democrats have suggested it might.

Protestors gathered outside Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's house and Chief Justice John Roberts house over the weekend.

Comments from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell reveal a willingness, given power — and power may be imminent.

Speaking in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, Donald Trump said he'd like to call Mitch McConnell a "piece of..." but Melania Trump would be cross with him.

Politicians, friends and colleagues paid tribute to the late U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch at a memorial service in Salt Lake City.

Preview: In an interview to air on "CBS Sunday Morning," the former advisor to presidents says it's time for the current generation of leaders in Congress and the White House to step aside.

Preview: In an interview to air on "CBS Sunday Morning," the former advisor to presidents says it's time for the current generation of leaders in Congress and the White House to pass the torch.

Lawmakers are working toward a compromise on President Joe Biden’s $33 billion Ukraine aid request that they hope to have ready as soon as next week.

The Senate is gearing up for a vote on legislation that would codify abortion rights into federal law.

While on the campaign trail in 2020, President Biden touted the idea of cancellation up to $10,000 per person of federal student loans. The president is expected to decide on student loan forgiveness in the coming weeks. McConnel criticized Democrats for “cooking up massive bailouts for Ivy League graduates.”

For one, they don't have the votes.

Republicans for months have been on the rhetorical offensive against President Biden and fellow Democrats — hammering them on the Afghanistan withdrawal, on increasing homicide rates, on a chaotic southern border and on seemingly ever-rising inflation. Now they’re the ones searching for the right message.

Chief Justice John Roberts, in ordering an investigation into an “egregious breach of trust” in the leak of a Supreme Court draft opinion on abortion, has tasked a relatively unknown court official to carry out what could be one of the most high-profile investigations in decades.

The traditionally insular Supreme Court is about to face the full force of public pressure and abortion politics.

Top GOP lawmakers emphasized the unprecedented nature of the unauthorized disclosure of the high court's draft ruling on an abortion case instead of the possible impact on women or on the midterms.

"I think the story today is an effort by someone on the inside to discredit the institution," McConnell told reporters.

Furious Senate Democrats are vowing to vote on legislation to protect abortion access for millions of Americans.

Support for other apparently imperiled protections, like gay marriage, runs nearly as deep.

The Supreme Court is leaving in place the illegal campaign contributions conviction of Kentucky businessman and former Democratic Party chief, Jerry Lundergan.

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul has promised to wage a vigorous review into the origins of the coronavirus if Republicans retake the Senate and he lands a committee chairmanship.

Louisville's mayoral race is taking place in a city roiled by racial tension, a spike in gun violence and deep misgivings many harbor about the Louisville police department.

The moment for collective action arrived, and Republicans all froze.

What if the GOP stopped capitulating to Trump? Plus: There’s a reason kids make better philosophers than grown-ups do.

House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy has assured colleagues he never asked then-President Donald Trump to resign over the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol.

McConnell told his staff after the attack that Trump is a "despicable person" and said "this fellow finally, totally discredited himself."

The comments are reported in a new book showing Republican leaders initially placed some blame for the Capitol attack on Trump — only for many of them change their tune later on.

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The next House speaker could very well hail from California, but if Republicans take control, that leader won't come from the part of the state represented by the current speaker, Democrat Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco.

The House minority leader allegedly told GOP leaders, "I've had it with this guy," according to a New York Times report.

The New York Times reported Thursday that GOP leaders had told fellow Republicans that they believed Trump was responsible for inciting the insurrection and would personally urge him to resign.

Despite his initial belief that his party would break with Trump after January 6, McConnell later realized the rest of his caucus wasn't on board.

Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy reportedly genuinely believed they could rid themselves of Trump. They were quickly proven wrong — and are less likely to try again.

Former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens, whose ex-wife recently accused him of physical abuse, says he will not drop his political comeback bid for the U.S. Senate.

A global computer chip shortage has made it harder for consumers to get their hands on cars, computers and other modern-day necessities.

"I've been calling folks in those states and they're with us," Trump told Republican senators in a December 2020 call, according to a new book.

McConnell publicly recognized Biden's victory in December 2020, which infuriated Trump. The two have not spoken in more than a year.

A major effort to overhaul care for people in the United States with mental health and drug problems is gaining traction in Washington.

A milestone Supreme Court confirmation that endured a flawed process.

Mike Gibbons, a leading Republican Senate candidate from Ohio, said at a media event last fall that middle-class Americans don’t pay “any kind of a fair share” of income taxes.

The Jackson confirmation is a rare victory that's likely to get rarer.

A day after the Senate confirmed Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first Black woman on the Supreme Court, she will join President Biden and Vice President Harris at the White House.

Tearfully embracing a history-making moment, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson said Friday her confirmation as the first Black woman to the Supreme Court shows the progress of America.

A reporter asked the Senate Minority leader how he could support Donald Trump after holding him "morally responsible" for the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.

McConnell said he had moral red lines. Asked about his statement that he would support Trump in 2024, he struggled mightily to explain where they are.

"I'm perfectly comfortable with the way that I have conducted my political career," McConnell said. "I'm very comfortable with my moral red line."

The Senate has confirmed Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, shattering a historic barrier by securing her place as the first Black female justice and giving President Joe Biden a bipartisan endorsement for his effort to diversify the court.

Republicans have blocked a Democratic attempt to begin Senate debate on a $10 billion COVID-19 compromise that is just a day old.

multiple Republicans said Tuesday that they would seek a vote on border restrictions as a condition of the covid-19 package.

Ivanka Trump is giving testimony to the House committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol, after her husband, Jared Kushner, testified last week. Meanwhile, the leader of the Proud Boys has pleaded not guilty to multiple federal felony counts including conspiracy. CBS News congressional correspondent Scott MacFarlane has the latest developments.

Republican Senators Lisa Murkowski and Mitt Romney say they will vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s historic nomination to the Supreme Court, giving President Joe Biden’s nominee a new burst of bipartisan support to become the first Black woman on the high court.

The new conservatism is hostile to globalization, immigration, big tech, media companies, and the idea that market forces should determine the common good.

Home-district projects for members of Congress are back, sprinkled across the government-wide $1.5 trillion bill that President Joe Biden signed recently.

In a public ceremony delayed two years by the pandemic, President Joe Biden on Saturday commissioned the USS Delaware, a nuclear attack submarine at the dock in Wilmington, Delaware.

Lawmakers have moved to the brink of clinching a scaled-back bipartisan compromise to provide a fresh $10 billion to combat COVID-19.

$10-billion pact would finance vaccines and treatments, but provide far less for global vaccine effort.

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham says he won’t vote for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson.

Former Vice President Mike Pence has unveiled a new policy platform for Republicans ahead of this year’s midterm elections.

President Joe Biden is ordering the release of 1 million barrels of oil per day from the nation’s strategic petroleum reserve for six months in a bid to control energy prices.

Florida Sen. Rick Scott is barely halfway through his first term, but he's already leaning into a fight against his own party’s leadership.

President Joe Biden’s $5.8 trillion budget for next year would trim federal deficits and boost taxes on the wealthiest Americans.

The Senate Judiciary Committee is pushing Ketanji Brown Jackson closer to confirmation, setting up a vote next week to recommend her nomination to the full Senate and seat her as the first Black woman on the Supreme Court.

At the Oscars, they said gay.

President Joe Biden intends to propose a minimum tax of 20% on households worth more than $100 million and cut projected budget deficits by more than $1 trillion over the next decade.

Empathy is not a quality many Republican senators want to see in the next Supreme Court justice.

Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin has announced his intention to support the nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, pushing her one step closer to confirmation.

Amid pushback from industry and lawmakers in both parties, federal energy regulators are scaling back plans to consider how natural gas projects affect climate change and environmental justice.

After more than 30 hours of hearings, the Senate is on track to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first Black woman on the Supreme Court.