Backers of the Senate’s sweeping permitting bill are setting a high target for its performance in its first vote — a bar that could depend on painstaking negotiations involving tribal politics and constraints on the White House’s power to kill energy projects.

President Trump is demanding a Senate vote on the stalled Sunshine Protection Act before clocks fall back Nov. 1 — but Congress still hasn't settled whether day

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate passed a sweeping bipartisan bill on Monday that would regulate college sports, an attempt to end “chaos” in an industry that has been upended by skyrocketing athlete payments and near-unrestricted transfers between schools.

The bipartisan legislation is intended to speed energy projects, but environmental lawyers warn it could also weaken legal challenges to the president’s plans for major renovations in the nation’s capital.

With less than two weeks until Election Day, legislation restricting federal law enforcement officers and military personnel near New Jersey polling

DONALD Trump loves bashing the opposition, but with a midterm blue wave threatening to swamp Republicans, the final two years of his presidency could be fraught with huge challenges. Ahead of

The US will soon find out whether Donald Trump has managed to retain control of Congress, following the midterm elections on Nov 3. The Republicans control both chambers for now, but their House

Brigitte Combs, whose mother had tried to give her away in marriage at the age of 11, finally was forced into marriage at 14, to a 37-year-old man with an 11-year-old son, has been working with several girls’ and women’s rights groups to persuade states to raise the minimum marriage age to 18.

Democrats running for Senate in Maine, Alaska and New Hampshire are zeroing in on the rising cost of home heating as winter — and Election Day — quickly approach. Republican candidates have been

State Sen. Gayle Lammers has been talking with Montanans about legislation to change the way the Public Service Commission is formed — to appoint members rather than elect them. Some people worry

Four Senate Democrats are pressing Trump officials to begin restoring billions of dollars in clean energy grants before a key vote on the permitting deal. Why it matters: The path for the bipartisan bill in the lame duck session just got steeper.