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"I am here on this floor to beg, to literally get down on my hands and knees and beg my colleagues: Find a path forward here," Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) implored his colleagues. "Work with us to find a way to pass laws that make this less likely.”

Connecticut U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy came to Congress representing Sandy Hook.

The bill's co-sponsor and author, state Assembly member Jordan Cunningham, said it aims to stop children from becoming addicted to such platforms.

In Georgia, there are notable primaries for governor, Senate and key congressional districts.

California could soon hold social media companies responsible for harming children who have become addicted to their products.

The ruling could introduce an as-yet-unknown number of uncounted ballots into a race where Oz and McCormick were separated by about 1,100 votes, as of Friday afternoon.

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The Senate has approved a bill aimed at easing the baby formula shortage for families participating in a government assistance program known as WIC.

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

Walker, a US Senate candidate in Georgia, is obligated by law to accurately disclose details about his personal finances but is unlikely to face a significant penalty.

The bill provides a combined $20.1 billion in military aid that is expected to provide for the transfer of advanced weapons systems, such as Patriot antiaircraft missiles and long-range artillery. AdvertisementThe package totals $7 billion more than the $33 billion Biden initially requested. “This aid has been critical to Ukraine’s success on the battlefield,” Biden said in a May 9 statement. Brink told the committee on May 10 that her top priority was coordinating the flow of military and humanitarian aid into Ukraine amid the ongoing Russian invasion. Schumer said Wednesday Brink would be an “outstanding” envoy and would help Ukraine defeat the invasion launched by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

This year’s Republican primary contests are likely to affect general election outcomes and even the fate of US democracy. That’s why they’re getting all the attention.

American diplomats evacuated Kyiv when the war began but the U.S. just reopened the embassy.

Counting continues in Pennsylvania in the too-close-to-call Republican primary for Senate where celebrity physician Mehmet Oz has a narrow lead over GOP rival David McCormick.

The late night host mocked the former president's pull for Dr. Mehmet Oz in the state's Republican primary.

Senate lawmakers Wednesday reached bipartisan agreement on legislation to expand health care and disability benefits to millions of veterans exposed to toxic chemicals during their military service.

The Senate Republican primary race in Pennsylvania is still too close to call as Dr. Mehmet Oz and David McCormick are neck and neck. Robert Costa has the latest.

In early primaries, Republican voters continue to side with nominees who, should they win, will probably have more loyalty to the former president than Mitch McConnell, creating potential headaches down the road for the long-serving Senate GOP leader.

Failed GOP Pennsylvania Senate candidate Kathy Barnette took to Twitter to blame Fox News host Sean Hannity for her primary election loss. “Never forget what Sean Hannity did in this race,” she said in a video posted on Twitter Wednesday. “Almost single handedly Sean Hannity sewed deep seeds of disinformation, flat out lies every night…

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.

The former president's call for Oz to declare victory is an echo of his own effort to steal a victory in Pennsylvania in the 2020 general election from President Joe Biden.

A far-right election denier, backed by Donald Trump, won the Republican nomination for Pennsylvania governor.

Candidates endorsed by the former president have tended to win about a third of the ballots in key Republican primaries this year. Big-time kingmakers have more clout than that.

Train lead singer Pat Monahan chats with USA TODAY's Ralphie Aversa about the band's eleventh studio album "AM Gold" and working with Taylor Swift.

There was no finding of wrongdoing, according to an attorney for the CEO of Blue Star Strategies, whose work became a flashpoint in the debate over Hunter Biden's role on the oil and natural gas company's board.

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

A half-dozen mainstream Republican Senate candidates are drawing on the white “replacement" conspiracy theory to court voters this campaign season.

The latest results from the Idaho primary ahead of the 2022 midterms.

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The latest results from the Pennsylvania primary ahead of the 2022 midterms.

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The latest results from the Kentucky primary ahead of the 2022 midterms.

Rep. Madison Cawthorn is facing a challenge, supported by major state GOP figures. One Democratic House primary may have been reshaped by the abortion rights debate. And a key Senate race will be set.

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

Two years after Joe Biden was elected, American voters return to the polls this November.

The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Sen. Ted Cruz over the Biden administration in a dispute over a campaign finance regulation.

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

The balance of power could be determined in four states where Democratic incumbents are up for reelection: Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and New Hampshire.

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.

Republican Senate hopeful Mehmet Oz is stepping up his criticism of far-right candidates in Pennsylvania who are gaining traction ahead of Tuesday's primary election. After spending much of the campaign steering clear of fellow Republican Senate contender Kathy Barnette, Oz on Saturday said she was out of step with the GOP and would be unable to win the general election in November. In an interview, he took issue with a 2015 tweet from Barnette in which she wrote that “Pedophilia is a Cornerstone of Islam.”

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.

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.

Elizabeth Warren, Raphael Warnock, and Chuck Schumer want to persuade Biden to go as far as possible with student-loan forgiveness, per Politico.

It’s been almost two centuries since a vice president has cast so many decisive votes on Capitol Hill, and her pace reveals a lot about how a 50-50 Senate actually works.

The United States is already the largest donor of military aid to Ukraine as it defends itself against Russia.

His objection to immediate passage of the bill will delay it until next week.

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"The Federal Reserve plays a primary role in fighting inflation," President Biden said in his statement on Powell's confirmation.

"The Federal Reserve plays a primary role in fighting inflation," President Biden said in his statement on Powell's confirmation.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, fresh off winning Senate confirmation for a second term earlier in the day, acknowledged for the first time Thursday that high inflation and economic weakness overseas could thwart his efforts to avoid causing a recession. For weeks, Powell has portrayed the Fed's drive to raise interest rates as consistent with a so-called “soft landing” for the economy. Under that scenario, the Fed would manage to tighten borrowing costs enough to cool the economy and curb inflation without going so far as to tip the economy into recession.

A judge has dismissed conservative cable news channel One America News Network from a defamation lawsuit filed by two Georgia election workers after the two sides reached a settlement.

Fairfax County officials have rebuffed a request from Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin to establish a security perimeter around the neighborhoods of Supreme Court justices living in the county who have faced protests outside their homes.

The Senate has confirmed economist Phillip Jefferson to the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors.

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.

Abortion legislation facing a Senate test vote would enshrine into federal law the landmark 1973 Roe v.

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.

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.

The Senate has passed legislation to beef up security for Supreme Court justices.

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.

A $100 million fund to settle sexual and physical abuse claims at New Hampshire’s state-run youth detention center is headed to the governor’s desk.

The Senate has voted to confirm Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of President John F.

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

The Pentagon’s cyber arm says a team spent months working with officials in Lithuania to help protect government networks there from cyberattacks.

A seven-year fight to pass a medical marijuana bill may have ended in South Carolina when a House leader ruled the proposal would mean a tax increase and could not be considered.

Children who begin identifying as transgender at a young age tend to retain that identity for several years.

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

A Senate hearing on Wednesday is likely to produce fireworks as Republicans and Democrats square off over the role that foundations and nonprofits are playing in elections.

High-profile surrogates for Republicans running in Ohio’s hotly contested Senate primary are fanning out across the state ahead of Tuesday’s election.

A New York judge has ordered the state's congressional and state Senate primaries to be delayed until Aug. 23 to provide enough time to replace maps that were ruled unconstitutional this week.

Democratic leaders have announced an effort to give the Federal Trade Commission increased authority to crack down on oil and gas companies that engage in price gouging.

Nigerian lawmakers have passed legislation to bar the payment of kidnap ransoms at a time when the West African nation is struggling to stem the rise of armed violence and kidnaps for ransom in its troubled northwest and central regions.

A group opposing Donald Trump’s endorsement of JD Vance in Ohio’s contentious Republican Senate primary is making the former president the target of a new ad campaign.

French voters in the presidential election are using an old-school voting system that has defied calls for more flexibility or modernization.

Florida’s Legislature has approved a congressional map pushed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis over the strong objections of Black and Democratic lawmakers.

The Biden administration is removing the acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives from his position and replacing him with the U.S. attorney in Arizona.

Democrats have spent years pledging to address the gun violence that plagues communities across the U.S. But a surge of mass shootings over the weekend served as a reminder of how little has been accomplished.

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

The South Dakota House has impeached state Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg over a 2020 car crash in which he killed a pedestrian but initially said he might have struck a deer or another large animal.

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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.

Spain is awaiting the publication in coming days of a new law banning the intimidation or harassment of women entering abortion clinics.

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.

Lawmakers erupted in cheers after Vice President Kamala Harris announced the confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court.

Moments before the Senate began Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation vote to become the first Black woman on the Supreme Court, the chamber filled with the swell of history.

A compromise $10 billion measure buttressing the government’s COVID-19 defenses has stalled in the Senate.

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.

Legislation punishing Russia for the war in Ukraine is finally getting a vote in the U.S. Senate.

Congress has overwhelmingly voted to suspend normal trade relations with Russia and ban the importation of its oil, ratcheting up the U.S. response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine amid reports of atrocities.

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

Three Republican senators are breaking from their party to support Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's historic nomination to the Supreme Court.

After Texas passed a ban on abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, more Texans went to Oklahoma for the procedure than to any other state. Now, in a surprise move, the Oklahoma Legislature is cutting off that option.

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.