House Republicans are urging their Senate GOP colleagues not to make any changes to the bill to claw back billions of dollars in federal funding for foreign aid and public broadcasting, as the party races toward a Friday deadline to send the package to President Trump’s desk.

“We are making good headway,” said Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D. He expects the Senate will get this “past the finish line” by the end of the week, sending it back to the House for swift action.

Each candidate is running for their party's nomination in the race to replace outgoing U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire.

The 2026 race for Texas's U.S. Senate seat is drawing multiple candidates from both parties, including incumbent Republican Senator John Cornyn, who seeks a fifth term. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has announced his primary challenge to Cornyn, while former Democratic Congressman Colin Allred launched his bid for the seat.

Iowa Senate District 1 Special Election

With Representative Don Bacon and Senator Thom Tillis stepping down, races in Nebraska and North Carolina may be more competitive.

Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a nonpartisan election analyst from the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, is shifting its rating of Nebraska Sen. Pete Ricketts’s (R) seat from “safe

The Senate struck a provision in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that would have prohibited states from regulating AI for the next decade. Lawmakers voted 99-1 early Tuesday morning to strike the provision,

Preston Wells Griffith III worked at DOE in the first Trump administration as principal deputy assistant secretary for international affairs.

Colin Allred, a former U.S. Representative and ex-NFL linebacker, has announced he will run for U.S. Senate in 2026.

There's no guarantee that Democrat Chris Pappas and Republican Scott Brown will face off in the race for U.S. Senate, but they're already treating each other as likely opponents.