Virginia's Democratic senators Tim Kaine and Mark Warner are likely to block U.S President Donald Trump's nomination of Lindsey Halligan as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, the Semafor news site reported on Friday,

Senate Democrats in three states have returned blue slips for three prosecutor nominees advancing through the Senate.

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

A massive generational divide is central to the competitive race between the incumbent governor Mills and oyster farmer Platner.

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.

Health care bills are going to skyrocket next year after the Senate voted down a bill that would have extended subsidies for the Affordable Care Act on Thursday. The bill needed 60 votes to pass, but only four Republicans broke with their party and voted to extend the subsidies that millions of Americans rely on: Senators Josh Hawley,