The US Senate is considering giving up crucial authority over key intelligence officials responsible for assuring major agencies comply with legal restrictions and the Constitution.The top legal officials at the Central Intelligence Agency and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence would no longer need Senate confirmation under the latest version of a broad policy bill approved by the Senate Intelligence Committee.

Esther Dikongue-Bayighomog was a legislative aide for state Sen. William C. Smith Jr. during most of the time prosecutors say she stole $20,000 in scholarship funds.

A Senate advanced a spending bill that includes $20 million in funding for infrastructure upgrades at Selfridge Air National Guard Base in Michigan.

Trump's $9 billion rescissions package is advancing, despite a trio of Republican defections. It targets foreign aid and public broadcasting funding.

President Donald Trump is one step closer to having Congress officially sign off on a slice of his Department of Government Efficiency’s spending cuts after Senate Republicans agreed TK DATE to cancel $9 billion in funding to foreign aid and public broadcasting.

The federal government has been debating the best location for a new FBI headquarters for well over a decade while its current office space in the J. Edgar Hoover Building continues to deteriorate.

GOP senators said they would remove $400 million in cuts to PEPFAR from the rescissions proposal, which targets foreign aid and public broadcasting, ahead of a Friday deadline.

Sen. Cory Booker was the last Democrat remaining in the room, pleading with Republicans to delay a vote on Trump judicial nominee Emil Bove.

Cook County Democratic slatemakers also endorsed state Rep. Margaret Croke of Chicago for state comptroller spot being vacated by Susana Mendoza.