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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called on Rupert Murdoch and other top executives of Fox Corp. and Fox News to stop the “reckless amplification” of the “great replacement theory” by some of the news channel’s hosts. The letter came following the deadly shooting rampage in Buffalo, NY, over the weekend, in which…

Gretchen Carlson, the former Fox News host whose 2016 sexual harassment lawsuit led to the downfall of network chief Roger Ailes, joined with senators on Capitol Hill on Thursday to celebrate the passage of legislation that prohibits employers from using forced arbitration clauses to shield such cases from public…

UPDATE, 7:26 PM PT: Democrats’ efforts to pass voting rights legislation stalled again in the Senate, as they fell short in securing a filibuster rules change that would have allowed them to clear the bills with a simple majority. The failure of the legislation was expected, after Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) and Sen. Jo…

UPDATE, 11:35 AM PT: After meeting with Democrats on Capitol Hill to discuss a strategy to pass voting rights legislation, Joe Biden said, “I hope we can get this done — the honest to God answer is, I don’t know whether we can get this done.” “Like every major civil rights bill that came along, if we miss the first…

The House on Tuesday passed an extension of the debt ceiling, averting the threat of a default until at least Dec. 3. The vote was 219-206, a party line vote for the $480 billion increase. The legislation now goes to President Joe Biden, who plans to sign it. The Senate passed an extension last week, after a standoff…

UPDATED, 5:07 PM: The Senate voted along party lines to raise the debt ceiling through Dec. 3. Their vote, 50-48, temporarily averts the threat that the U.S. could default on its debt, as Democratic and Republican leaders had a standoff over who bears responsibility for raising the borrowing limit. After insisting…

The Senate on Tuesday blocked a massive election-reform bill as Democrats fell short of the votes to overcome a Republican filibuster threat. The Senate voted 50-50 on a motion to proceed with debate over the bill. The result was split evenly between the parties, but fe;; 10 votes short of the 60 needed to move the…

UPDATED, with more details and polls: Senate Republicans on Friday blocked an effort to form a bipartisan commission to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection, despite pleas from the family of a police officer who died after the riot. The Senate voted 54-35 to move forward on debate on the bill, short of the 60 needed to…

We've gone just over two weeks now without hearing much of anything from Donald Trump: Banned from Twitter, absent from Fox & Friends call-ins, the former president has been unusually low key at his Mar-A-Lago estate in Florida. That will change  Tuesday, when he will once again be at the center of the media…

UPDATED, 3:47 PM PT: The second impeachment trial of Donald Trump will start the week of February 8, giving time for the former president’s team to prepare its defense and for the Senate to confirm Joe Biden’s cabinet nominees. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer gave the timeline on Friday. The article of…

Democrats took control of the Senate for the first time since 2015, as Vice President Kamala Harris swore in her appointed successor, Alex Padilla, as well as Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, who won their races in Georgia this month. “I need to catch my breath, so much is happening,” said Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY)…

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called for Donald Trump to be removed from office immediately, following the siege of the Capitol that was motivated by the president’s unfounded claims that the election was stolen from him. “What happened at the U.S. Capitol yesterday was an insurrection against the United…