Senate Republicans on Thursday triggered the so-called “nuclear option” and changed the rules of the upper chamber to speed up the confirmation of President Trump’s nominees. The proposed rule change, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans are taking the first steps to change the chamber’s rules on Thursday, making it easier to confirm groups of President Donald Trump’s nominees and overcome ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans took the first steps to change the chamber’s rules on Thursday, moving to make it easier to confirm groups of President Donald Trump’s nominees after last-minute ...

Republicans jammed through a change to Senate rules on Thursday that will allow them to more quickly confirm many of President Donald Trump’s nominees. The move came over the objections of Democrats ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune took the first procedural step Monday toward changing the chamber’s rules to speed up the confirmation of lower-level Trump nominees, saying the move is necessary to ...

WASHINGTON — Republican leaders are moving closer to implementing a major change to Senate rules that would allow them to confirm scores of President Donald Trump’s nominees in batches, rather than ...

Discussions are underway that could see the first stage of the California high speed railway, which is currently under construction, connect Bakersfield to Gilroy rather than Merced after a report ...

Senate Republicans are zeroing in on a rule change, which would be enacted through the “nuclear option,” that would allow them to expeditiously confirm scores of President Trump’s executive branch and ...

(AP) — Ohio State and Florida State got into the win column. Texas and Alabama did not. The first big weekend of major college football is in the books, and now, players and athletic departments can ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (NEWS10) — The Saratoga Springs City Council voted unanimously in favor of reducing the speed limit in parts of the city. The proposal calls for the speed limit on city streets ...