The 88-year-old senator said background checks were “hostile towards lawful gun owners"

The US House of Representatives has passed a bill to avoid a partial government shutdown by extending government funding that is due to expire on Friday night. The House voted 221 to 212 to keep the government funded through mid-February. Representative...

The Senate cut a deal on Thursday night to pave the way for passing a short-term government funding bill to avert a shutdown.Under the deal, the Senate will first vote Thursday night on an amendment from conservatives to defund President Biden's vaccine...

"Rust" AD David Halls' attorney Lisa Torraco said her client "has told me since the very first day I met him that Alec did not pull that trigger."

The chamber plans to vote late Thursday on the 11-week stopgap spending bill that the House passed earlier in the day to keep the federal government funded through Feb. 18.