The chair of the Senate Commerce Committee and the panel's top Democrat on Thursday pushed to revise an annual defense bill to bolster military helicopter safety after a fatal American Airlines collision with an Army Black Hawk killed 67 people in January near Reagan Washington National Airport.

Majority Leader John Thune announced that the Senate will vote on a Republican-led measure alongside a Democratic bill to extend expiring tax credits.

Congress fails to advance Affordable Care Act measures, leaving millions of Americans facing higher insurance premiums on Jan. 1, 2026.

All three major Democratic Senate candidates hail from the Chicago region, potentially ending the upstate-downstate balance maintained by retiring Sen. Dick Durbin for 28 years.

Mills and Platner are in a dead heat with the incumbent Republican they each hope to face next year, Sen. Susan Collins.