US Senate kicks off vote-a-rama on massive tax and spending cut bill
WASHINGTON (States Newsroom) — The U.S. Senate launched a marathon amendment voting session Monday during which lawmakers will debate dozens of proposals from Republicans...
A man lured Idaho firefighters to a mountain with a fire then shot and...
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — As a wildfire began to sow panic in a small northern Idaho mountain community, a group of firefighters who rushed...
US brings charges in North Korean remote worker scheme that officials say funds weapons...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department announced criminal charges Monday in connection with a scheme by North Korea to fund its weapons program through...
Budget debate underway in Senate, but overnight voting delayed
WASHINGTON (AP) — Debate was underway in the Senate late into the night, with Republicans wrestling President Donald Trump's big bill of tax breaks...
Multiple people dead as shooter attacks firefighters responding to North Idaho brush fire
(Idaho Capital Sun) — Two people have been killed after firefighters in North Idaho responded to emergency calls of a brush fire and a...
It took 16 hours to read US budget bill aloud. Now the long debate...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hours before a tumultuous nearing-midnight vote on President Donald Trump’s package of tax breaks, spending cuts and increased deportation money, a...
Nonpartisan analysis of US Senate GOP mega-bill finds it adds $3.2 trillion to deficits
WASHINGTON (States Newsroom) — U.S. Senate Republicans’ revised tax and spending cuts package will add $3.253 trillion to deficits during the next decade compared...
US Senate votes to advance Republican mega-bill in tense late-night session
WASHINGTON (States Newsroom) — The U.S. Senate voted mostly along party lines late Saturday night to move forward with Republicans’ “big, beautiful bill” that...
After violent deaths, children of Hortmans pray for peace at parents’ funeral
(Minnesota Reformer) — Minnesota House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman’s life embodied the American dream. She was raised in a family that owned a junkyard,...
Hundreds of thousands mourn top Iranian military commanders and scientists killed in Israeli strikes
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of mourners lined the streets of downtown Tehran on Saturday for the funeral of the...
Weekend work on the mega-bill: first vote in US Senate as soon as Saturday
WASHINGTON (States Newsroom) — U.S. Senate Republicans appear ready to take an initial vote on their “big, beautiful bill” as soon as Saturday, which...
As Hortmans lie in state, thousands of Minnesotans line up to pay respects
(Minnesota Reformer) — Minnesota Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman on Friday was surrounded by things she loved: She lay in the Minnesota Capitol, where she...