The Democratic Party in Maine picked its new candidate for a key US Senate race on Saturday, after the original nominee was pressured to drop out over sexual misconduct allegations. Delegates to a hastily organised nominating convention picked Troy Jackson, a former state senate president, to go up against Republican incumbent Susan Collins. “Thank you, Maine. In 101 days, we will defeat Susan Collins and reclaim our Senate seat. Let’s get to work,” Jackson said on social media. The move comes...
US senators broadly agree that Chinese connected vehicles should be kept off American roads. But a bipartisan attempt to codify and expand existing restrictions has exposed divisions over whether the proposed ban could ensnare European carmakers and increase costs for American electric-vehicle producers. The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation advanced the Connected Vehicle Security Act of 2026, a bill that would prohibit the import, manufacture and sale of connected...
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gets into a heated exchange after being called a failed leader by Michigan Senator.
A Chinese researcher’s vision of serving spicy crawfish soup to astronauts on Mars became an unlikely symbol of Washington’s growing anxiety over China’s scientific ambitions at a US Senate hearing on Tuesday. Drew Endy, associate professor at Stanford University and director of bio-strategy and leadership at the Hoover Institution, said that last autumn he met a 20-year-old Chinese researcher from Shanghai at a scientific conference in Paris. Dressed in a large red crawfish costume, the young...
The longtime party leader's absence from the Senate is likely to have repercussions for the Republican agenda.
Lindsey Graham’s sister sworn in to fill his US Senate seat
The Senate voted 50-46 to block debate on the annual defence bill over war funding and defence cooperation with Israel.
South Carolina governor chooses Darline Graham Nordone to serve the rest of the late US senator's term until early 2027.
Late US senator backed invasion of Iraq, war on Iran and approach of 'more for Israel' as he became a Trump confidant.
The death of US Senator Lindsey Graham has removed one of Washington’s most influential advocates of a hardline approach towards China at a moment when Republicans are debating how aggressively the United States should confront Beijing and project military power overseas. Attention is now turning to whom South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster appoints to fill the vacant Senate seat – and whether Graham’s successor will inherit the late lawmaker’s unusually prominent role as both a congressional...
The veteran Republican says he will not return to work "quite yet", in his first statement following weeks of speculation about his health.
The US Republican senator has been absent from Congress during a weeks-long hospitalisation, spurring party concern.
US Senator Mitch McConnell on Sunday revealed for the first time that a fall led to his hospitalisation, breaking the silence about his condition after weeks of mounting speculation about the Kentucky Republican’s health. McConnell, 84, said in a statement that he has undergone a battery of tests as doctors try to determine what led to his fall. He explained the long silence about his condition by saying that “folks of my generation often hesitate to share the vulnerability that comes with...
US senator Lindsey Graham, a key ally of Israel and one of Washington’s most prominent foreign policy hawks, has died.
The US president suggests he is considering a potential candidate to fill the late senator's seat in South Carolina.
The longtime US senator, an ally of President Trump, was an advocate for using US military force overseas.
US Senator Lindsey Graham passed away on Saturday evening after a brief and sudden illness, the communications director for his office said in a social media post early on Sunday. Graham, 71, was a prominent Republican senator from South Carolina. Earlier in his career, he was a vocal critic of US President Donald Trump before becoming one of his most loyal allies on Capitol Hill. “Senator Graham’s family appreciates prayers at this time and asks for privacy during this incredibly...
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Along with creating tumult in a must-win race for Democrats, Graham Platner's exit is laying bare division between the party's left wing and moderates.
Graham Platner, a scandal-plagued Democratic Senate nominee whose insurgent rise had drawn comparisons to Donald Trump, ended his campaign on Wednesday after a rape allegation threatened to derail one of his party’s best chances of flipping a Republican-held seat. Platner, a Marine veteran, oysterman and political newcomer, won last month’s Democratic primary in the northeastern state of Maine to face Republican Senator Susan Collins in November’s midterm elections. His withdrawal gives Maine...
The decision came days after a woman accused him of sexual assault, an accusation he says is "categorically false".
Trump waded into race to defeat incumbent Bill Cassidy, a Republican and critic of Trump's actions following 2020 vote.