U.S. Senate

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...