The government shutdown extended into Day 20 on Monday as the Senate failed to advance a House-passed measure to end the impasse for an 11th time.

The North Carolina Senate approved a new congressional map aimed at helping Republicans eke out an additional GOP seat to help shore up the party’s majority in the US House after next year’s midterm elections.

U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon) took the Senate floor to protest President Donald Trump on Tuesday afternoon.

North Carolina Republicans are moving with remarkable speed to add help add an 11th member of their party to the state’s 14-member congressional delegation. The Senate voted 26-20 along party lines on Tuesday to give its final approval to a new map that would make one more congressional district unwinnable for a Democrat.

Name, image and likeness rules for college athletes are the subject of competing legislation, and professional athletes unions have picked a side.

Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner has revealed in a podcast that he was tattooed years ago with an image widely recognized as Nazi symbol

Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner defended a chest tattoo resembling Nazi symbol, claiming it came from a "very inebriated" decision in 2007.

Here you will find up-to-the-minute election results for the South Carolina House District 21 primary and the South Carolina Senate District 12 primary.

Graham Platner, a Democratic Senate candidate in Maine, says he is planning to cover up a tattoo on his chest that his former political director has labeled “anti-Semitic” and a prominent Jewish civil rights group said resembled a Nazi symbol.

The shutdown is the second-longest in U.S. history, and food assistance may be at risk in November. Trump has said that there will be no health-care concessions as Democrats hold out for extended Affordable Care Act subsidies.