BATON ROUGE, La. ( Louisiana Illuminator) – U.S. Rep. Julia Letlow declared Tuesday morning she will enter this year’s U.S. Senate race, following a social media endorsement over the weekend from President Donald Trump.

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Monday's debate of Illinois candidates vying to replace U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin will be aired live on WBEZ and streamed on the YouTube pages of WBEZ, the Chicago Sun-Times and the University of Chicago Institute of Politics.

When a bipartisan coalition in the U.S. House voted this month to approve a three-year, $80 billion extension of extra insurance subsidies under the Affordable Care Act — over the opposition of Republican leaders in Congress — there was a sense of accomplishment in the hallways of the Capitol.

Pro-Trump outsider Nate Morris says Musk's staggering donation gives his Kentucky Senate campaign firepower to compete against establishment Republicans.

U.S. Senate Republicans blocked a resolution on Wednesday that would have barred President Donald Trump from further military action in Venezuela without Congress' authorization, after the Republican president put pressure on party members who had supported it.

President Donald Trump’s endorsement of U.S. Rep. Barry Moore in Alabama’s U.S. Senate race made Moore the favorite in the high-stakes campaign, political analysts said.

U.S. Senator Gary Peters, Michigan, a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, helped secure funding for high-impact, local public projects and Michigan priorities in the Fiscal Year 2026 Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act that passed the Senate.