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The legislation failed resoundingly but highlighted a growing Democratic divide over whether the United States should withhold some weapons to register its disapproval of Israel’s war tactics.

The Senate voted overwhelmingly Wednesday night to reject three efforts led by progressive Sen. Bernie Sanders that would have blocked certain offensive weapons sales to Israel.

The resolutions garnered bipartisan opposition and had not been expected to pass.

Sanders, I-Vt., sponsored three separate resolutions which zeroed in on different types of weapons: tank rounds, mortar rounds and a type of guidance kit that is often attached to bombs dropped in Gaza. The resolutions failed, with 78, 79 and 80 senators voting against the three separate...

U.S. regulators want a federal judge to break up Google to prevent the company from continuing to squash competition through its dominant search engine after a court found it had maintained an abusive monopoly over the past decade

President-elect Donald J. Trump’s choice for defense secretary was never charged with a crime and vehemently denied to the police that a sexual encounter was coerced.

Universities had already begun making changes, as the controversial bill was expected to easily pass.

The G.O.P. united behind Nick Begich III, the conservative son of a prominent liberal Alaska political family, to beat Representative Mary Peltola, a Democrat.

The bill, known as the PRESS Act, would codify protections against federal investigators seizing reporters’ records. It is now less likely the legislation would clear the Senate before the current session ends.

The government has just tabled laws to block access to under-16s - but the proposal is divisive.

Three of President-elect Donald Trump’s high-profile picks to join his Cabinet have faced serious allegations of sexual impropriety, complicating the calculus for Republican senators already weighing their professional qualifications as they decide whether to go along with their party leader on key government posts.

His choice for attorney general, former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., is accused of having sex with a 17-year-old and paying two other women for sex. Trump’s pick for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, was accused of sexual assault. And his...

In an opinion column in The Wall Street Journal, the heads of the new Department of Government Efficiency said taxpayers shouldn’t pay federal employees “for the Covid-era privilege of staying home.”

The allegations of bribery and fraud are the latest blow for the tycoon, one of India's richest people.

Brandon Durham was tussling with a female intruder over a knife when an officer shot him multiple times.

The president-elect has repeatedly pledged to deport millions of undocumented migrants once in office.

A bill limiting the number of foreign students Australia accepts has caused anxiety at home and abroad.

Two people died in the storm that hit the West coast of the US and Canada overnight.