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An exhausted Senate has narrowly approved a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill

The U.S. Senate narrowly approved a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill Saturday. The bill will be sent to the House next week.

The Senate has voted by the slimmest of margins to begin debating a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill.

A Republican senator severely delayed passage of a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package Thursday by insisting that the entire 628-page bill be read out loud.

The second impeachment trial of Donald Trump laid bare the deep imperfections in the Constitution’s only process for holding a president accountable for “high crimes and misdemeanors.”

Donald Trump’s first impeachment trial centered on a phone call that Americans never heard with the leader of a country far away, Ukraine

The Senate is moving toward a final vote after reaching a deal to skip witness testimony in the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump. The agreement averts a prolonged trial and sets up closing arguments from both sides.

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell delivered a scalding denunciation of Donald Trump in a speech Saturday from the Senate floor, calling the former president “morally responsible” for the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol

Pennsylvania’s lieutenant governor who comes in Paul Bunyan proportions made his mark as mayor of a Rust Belt city outside Pittsburgh. More recently, he’s become one of the most progressive politicians in the state.

Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, called out Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., for not wearing a mask on the Senate floor Thursday. Paul is the only senator who does not wear a mask in the Senate chamber. The Kentucky senator complied with Brown’s request without objection.

Legal briefs filed in the impeachment case against former President Donald Trump lay out radically different positions ahead of next week’s Senate trial.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., is facing a backlash after a CNN review of Greene’s Facebook page showed she had in recent years liked posts calling for violence against prominent Democrats while also promoting extremist conspiracy theories, NBC News reports.

Senate Democrats are preparing to push ahead with President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package.

Now the projected victors have been declared and the dust begins to settle following the Georgia Senate runoff races you may be asking yourself a simple question. What does it all mean?

Georgia’s secretary of state has certified the results of the two U.S. Senate runoff elections

President Trump was impeached for the second time just days before President-elect Joe Biden will take office. Looking ahead, there is no historical precedent for what it means to put a president on trial in the U.S. Senate after he’s left the White House. William Howell, a professor of American politics at the University of Chicago, joined LX News to...

Now that President Trump has been impeached for the second time, all eyes turn to the Senate where Republicans will need to decide whether to vote for conviction. The Washington Post’s David Fahrenthold joined LX News to explain the political calculations being made by Senate Republicans about whether to end the Trump era once and for all.

There will be no Black women in the Senate once Sen. Kamala Harris leaves the chamber to become vice president. Political strategist Atima Omara and Rev. Leah Daughtry, a former CEO of the Democratic National Convention Committee, joined LX News to discuss the lack of representation of Black women, what it means for democracy and its ties to institutional racism.

U.S. Capitol Police announced the off-duty death of a longtime officer, saying he was “selfless in his service” and that the department is reeling from this latest blow. Officer Howard Liebengood has died, the department said Sunday morning. He was 51.  The Capitol Police officers’ union said in a statement that Liebengood responded to the rioting at the Capitol...

Rev. Raphael Warnock became the first Black Georgian elected to the U.S Senate, and 33-year-old Jon Ossoff became the state’s first Jewish senator. LX News welcomed the founder of The John Lewis Bridge Project, Michael Starr Hopkins, to talk about the road the late Congressman John Lewis paved for their historic victories.