Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, held the Senate floor all night long Tuesday and into Wednesday morning, giving a marathon speech to disrupt legislative business and protest the Trump administration's po...

Graham Platner, a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine, tells The Associated Press that he's covered a tattoo on his chest to no longer reflect an image widely recognized as a Nazi symbol that he got nearly 20 years ago.

Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner revealed Tuesday that he was tattooed years ago with an image widely recognized as a Nazi symbol, but he dismissed the connotation and chalked it up to a drunken...

Platner was already engulfed in controversy over a series of old Reddit posts unearthed by CNN.

The federal government shutdown is in its third week, making it tied for the second-longest since 1976.

As the government shutdown enters its fourth week, Senate Republicans are headed to the White House — not for urgent talks on how to end it, but for a display of unity with President Donald Trump as t