Republican state senators in North Carolina approved redrawing the state’s congressional map Tuesday in hopes of gaining another U.S. House seat, heeding President Donald Trump’s request to help protect their narrow majority in next year’s midterm elections.

Republican Senators passed a redrawn Congressional map that would benefit their own party on Tuesday morning after hours of debate spanning days.

With the shutdown stretching into a fourth week, President Donald Trump flaunted White House renovations while hosting Senate Republicans in the revamped Rose Garden, as the standoff over government f...

As the government shutdown enters its fourth week — on track to become among the longest in U.S. history — the country is feeling the financial hit.

The senator did not say if the White House accepted the meeting request.