US Senate

The Senate voted early Friday to reopen the government and pass a $400 billion budget deal, handing the measure off to the House for a pre-dawn debate where success is not assured.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — After a crazy year in Minnesota politics, 2018 will start with Democrats and Republicans squabbling over the next lieutenant governor and what it means for control of the Senate.

Jubilant Republicans pushed on early Wednesday to the verge of the most sweeping rewrite of the nation’s tax laws in more than three decades, a deeply unpopular bill they insist Americans will learn to love when they see their paychecks in the new year. President Donald Trump cheered the lawmakers on, eager to claim his first major legislative victory.

Republican Marco Rubio’s potential defection over a tax credit for low-income parents put a speed bump into GOP leaders’ drive to push their big tax package through the Senate, but it’s a complication that’s likely to be resolved.

In a stunning victory aided by scandal, Democrat Doug Jones won Alabama’s special Senate election, beating back history, an embattled Republican opponent and President Donald Trump, who urgently endorsed GOP rebel Roy Moore despite a litany of sexual misconduct allegations.

Several female senators are calling on fellow Democratic Sen. Al Franken to resign.

Republicans pushed a nearly $1.5 trillion tax bill through the Senate early Saturday after a burst of eleventh-hour horse trading, as a party starved all year for a major legislative triumph took a giant step toward giving President Donald Trump one of his top priorities by Christmas.

The US Senate Select Committee on Ethics is looking into recent sexual harassment allegations leveled by several women against Minnesota Sen. Al Franken.

Minnesota Sen. Al Franken says his family is supporting him as he faces sexual misconduct allegations.

Two women are alleging that Minnesota Democratic U.S. Sen. Al Franken touched their buttocks during events for his first campaign for Senate.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he’s ready to unwrap his latest bill repealing much of President Barack Obama’s health care law, with wary conservatives warning Wednesday that they’re watching to make sure it doesn’t stray from their goals.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Democratic U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar says she'll run for a third term in 2018, meaning she won't run for Minnesota governor.

Washington, DC (KROC AM News) -  Minnesota First District Congressman Tim Walz has done it again.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama said Wednesday he would nominate appeals court judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court, urging Republicans to approve a long-time jurist and former prosecutor known as "one of America's sharpest legal minds."