After failing to persuade his fellow Democrats in the Congress to give their full backing to voting rights laws, US President Joe Biden on Thursday appeared to have backed off.

The US Senate Republican Leader, Mitch McConnell, rips into President Joe Biden’s speech in which he urged the Senate to change its filibuster rules to pass voting and elections legislation.

The US Democratic Senators are expected to present a new sanctions bill on Wednesday against Russia, which would inflict “severe costs” on the country’s economy

The US Senate voted 75 to 18 to confirm Nicholas Burns, a former US ambassador to NATO who served as Under Secretary of State between 2005 and 2008, as the next US envoy to Beijing.

The US Senate moved toward a vote on Tuesday to raise the federal government's debt limit by $2.5 trillion to about $31.4 trillion and forward the measure to the House of Representatives to avoid an unprecedented default.

Senate Republicans had resisted voting on the debt ceiling for months, seeking to link the move to President Biden's proposed $1.75 trillion domestic spending bill.

The US Senate on Thursday passed and sent to President Joe Biden the first of two bills needed to raise the federal government's $28.9 trillion debt limit and avert an unprecedented default.

The US Senate has rejected a bipartisan effort to block President Joe Biden's $650 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia amid the kingdom’s brutal war on Yemen and its human rights record.

US Democratic lawmakers have reached an agreement with Republicans to avoid a government shutdown.

After days of controversy, the US House of Representatives has passed a $1 billion bill to fund Israel's so called Iron Dome missile system.