The Republican head of a key Senate committee says that President Donald Trump's proposal to use new tariffs on Mexican goods to pressure Mexico to slow the flow of migrants to the border is a flawed strategy.

House vote sends President Donald Trump measure to fund border fencing, avert government shutdown.

President Donald Trump is expected to announce he is lifting a federal ban on summer sales of high-ethanol blends during a trip to Iowa on Tuesday. 

Senators are taking turns reviewing the FBI's report into Judge Brett Kavanaugh's background following widespread demands for additional investigations into allegations of sexual assault.

The lawyer for Christine Blasey Ford wants another day to consider terms for testifying to the Senate Judiciary Committee. Attorney Debra Katz calls Friday's deadline for a response "arbitrary." She says "its sole purpose is to bully" Ford.

Republicans are warning that time is running out for Brett Kavanaugh's accuser to tell Congress about her claim that he sexually assaulted her when both were teenagers.

The Senate Judiciary Committee says confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh will begin on September 4.  

The Senate Judiciary Committee is demanding answers from federal immigration officials about the Trump administration's separation of migrant children from their families and its struggle to reunite them.