When the new Senate convenes in January, Democrats are going to have to rely on two Republican members, Susan Collins of ...

U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a Republican, said she would seek to protect some Democrat-backed laws such as the Affordable Care ...

More opportunities for oil drilling in the Arctic refuge and other long-sought Alaska projects could be renewed under a Trump ...

High-profile conservatives, from billionaire Ken Griffin and the Koch Group to Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, who had ...

They say they’re hopeful the Trump administration and a Republican-controlled U.S. Senate will create more opportunity for ...

Calls for Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to retire are resurfacing following Donald Trump's electoral victory.

President-elect Donald Trump said he won’t invite his former ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, or former ...

Republicans grabbed the Senate, but Democrats could still take the House—and no matter what happens, they have a duty to ...

With a decisive margin in the Senate, Republicans, who have shown their willingness to accommodate the president-elect, will ...

It will also give Mr Trump a relatively free hand to pick whomever he wants in his cabinet and other senior jobs. Four-month ...

Senate Dems are furiously debating whether to pressure US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, a 70-year-old diabetic, into ...

Notably, Republicans now have enough seats in the Senate to confirm a new Trump nominee, even if the two moderate members of ...