Last month, Senate Democrats used the filibuster to block sanctions on the International Criminal Court, in response to the ...

When things actually happen on Capitol Hill, it’s frequently because senators find ways around the filibuster, the custom ...

Former South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond’s 1957 filibuster in opposition to landmark civil rights legislation remains the longest in history at just over 24 hours. Last month, Senate Democrats ...

And yet when the new Senate majority leader, Sen. John Thune of South Dakota, outlined his priorities, he said defending the filibuster is essential to “preserving the Founders’ vision of the ...

Last week, President Donald Trump signed an executive order stopping all aid to South Africa and offering refugee status to white South Africans. The order decried “government-sponsored race ...

But when the jet stream gets wobbly, the cold air can bust out and travel south. Temperatures can fall by tens of degrees within hours and snow can hit parts of the United States like Florida and ...

Bangladeshi police have arrested 41 former officers among 1,059 accused of atrocities during the 2024 student-led movement that ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina. The protests, triggered by ...

Republicans are claiming that the bill should be seen as a narrow fiscal matter, meaning that it could bypass the Senate filibuster and become law more easily. “Using Medicaid funds for unproven ...

Then, at 11:18 a.m., Sen. Wendy Davis, a Fort Worth Democrat, took to the Senate floor and started what she hoped would be a 13-hour filibuster of the abortion bill. If Davis managed to keep the ...