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Senate bargainers announced a bipartisan framework Sunday responding to last month’s mass shootings, a modest breakthrough offering measured gun curbs and bolstered efforts to improve school safety and mental health programs.

Adam Schiff was still speaking — about witnesses, documents, future presidents and the impeachment of President Donald Trump. He’d said it all before, but five hours into the Senate trial Tuesday, Schiff, the lead prosecutor, was saying it again.

No cellphones. No talking. No escape. That’s the reality during the Senate’s impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, which will begin each day with a proclamation: “All persons are commanded to keep silence, on pain of imprisonment.” After that, 100 senators will sit at their desks for hours on end to hear from House prosecutors, Trump’s defense team and possibly a...

The race for the 2020 presidential election is underway, and the field of Democratic candidates is packed with nearly two dozen saying they want the party’s nomination.

The race for the 2020 presidential election is underway, and the field of Democratic candidates is packed with nearly two dozen saying they want the party’s nomination.

Judge Brett Kavanaugh testified before a Senate committee Thursday to answer an allegation that he sexually assaulted Christine Blasey Ford during a high school party 36 years ago. Here are key moments from his testimony.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said the nomination process for Judge Brett Kavanaugh has been “the most unethical sham since I’ve been in politics,” in an explosive attack on Democrats of the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday.

Judge Brett Kavanaugh forcefully denied the allegations against him Thursday in his opening statement during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) on Thursday asked Judge Brett Kavanaugh if he would be open to having the FBI investigate the allegation that he sexually assaulted Christine Blasey Ford in high school. Kavanaugh said he would be willing to do whatever it takes to clear his name.

Christine Blasey Ford testified Thursday before the Senate Judiciary Committee about her allegation that Judge Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her during a high school party 36 years ago.

Christine Blasey Ford said the person who administered her polygraph met her at a hotel instead of his office because she was on a tight schedule after having attended her grandmother’s funeral. While she said she was unsure of who paid for the test, her lawyer later said that Ford’s attorneys paid for it and were working pro...

Sen. Richard Blumnethal, D-Conn., told Christine Blasey Ford, “I believe you,” in regards to her testimony that she was sexually assaulted by Brett Kavanaugh during a high school party. He said that President Donald Trump’s failure to ask for an FBI probe into Ford’s claims is “tantamount to a cover up.”

Rachel Mitchell, an experienced sex crimes prosecutor hired to ask questions of Christine Blasey Ford on behalf of Republican senators on the judiciary committee, began by expressing sympathy for Ford, who’d said she was “terrified” to testify. “I just wanted to let you know, I’m very sorry. That’s not right,” Mitchell said.