The former NFL player, who unsuccessfully ran for Senate in 2022, will be the first ambassador to the Bahamas in nearly 15 years.

In Washington, the US Senate on Monday evening failed to pass a short-term budget to keep federal agencies open. Legal experts suggest, Democrats have almost no chance of extracting real concessions from the Republicans.

Longtime Minneapolis commercial litigator Daniel Rosen was confirmed Tuesday as Minnesota’s top federal prosecutor. With a single 51-47 vote, the U.S. Senate confirmed more than 100 of President Donald Trump’s nominees,

The U.S. federal government shutdown, which began on Oct. 1, is still going. And there have been very few signs of meaningful progress toward a deal as Republicans and Democrats remain committed to the positions they staked out weeks before government funding ran out.

White House memo suggests 750,000 furloughed federal workers may not get back pay despite 2019 law, sparking bipartisan concern among lawmakers.

The Senate has confirmed President Donald Trump’s pick to fill a critical vacancy at the top agency for worker rights, restoring it to the full power needed to deepen his overhaul of civil rights enforcement.

Incumbent Sen. John Cornyn is locked in a tight and combative race with Attorney General Ken Paxton. Rep. Wesley Hunt presented himself as above the fray.

President Donald Trump slammed Democrats for ‘shutting down the government amid one of the most successful economies,’ urging them to reopen it ‘tonight.’ The shutdown, triggered after Senate Democrats blocked a GOP funding bill,