U.S. Senate

With control of the Senate up for grabs in twin runoff elections, a torrent of money is pouring into Georgia at more than $2 million a day in TV and radio ads, and the spending is just getting started ahead of the Jan. 5 vote, NBC News reported. “Most people are saying, Do we really have to go through all this again?” after...

Control of the U.S. Senate will be decided on Jan. 5 by two Senate runoff races in Georgia: one faceoff between David Perdue and Jon Ossoff and the other between Kelly Loeffler and Raphael Warnock. NBCLX’s Noah Pransky has everything you need to know, whether you live in the state or not.

Joe Biden has won the White House, but the fate of his agenda may depend on whether Democrats can also capture the U.S. Senate. NBCLX political reporter Noah Pransky explains why all eyes are now on two Senate runoff races in Georgia.

In so many ways Tuesday was not the night Democrats envisioned. Not only was there no overwhelming nationwide repudiation of Donald Trump, but the hope many had that the Senate would flip into a Democratic majority hinges on two races in Georgia.

The battleground states of Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan that may ultimately determine the 2020 Presidential Election have been deemed too early or too close to call by NBC News.

Less than a week before Election Day, the CEOs of Twitter, Facebook and Google are set to be grilled by Republican senators making unfounded allegations that the tech giants show anti-conservative bias.

The Senate is expected to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court on Monday after a highly partisan, rushed process. George Washington University Law Professor Paul Schiff Berman argues that her confirmation under these circumstances threatens the legitimacy of the Supreme Court and stability in the U.S.

There’s a growing fear of a blue wave sweeping through Capitol Hill. And as the general election enters the two week stretch run, it’s a blue tidal wave that some Republicans have already publicly admitted could engulf them on Nov. 3rd.

Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell and Democratic challenger Amy McGrath have sparred over the federal response to the coronavirus crisis in a hard-hitting televised debate

A Republican and a Democratic senator say Congress should give the nation’s highest civilian honor posthumously to Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley.

The Republican chairman leading a Senate hearing into the country’s response to the coronavirus pandemic urged colleagues not to point fingers during Tuesday’s two-hour session.

It’s only taken weeks for the coronavirus, the economic shutdown and President Donald Trump’s stumbles addressing the crises to scramble this fall’s battle for Senate control

Advocates for and against President Donald Trump are giving no ground in the shadow of his Senate impeachment trial. The president’s defenders are arguing that his pressure on Ukraine broke no U.S., law, so it wasn’t impeachable in the first place. The House Democrats who are prosecuting the abuse and obstruction charges say there need be no crime and that...