Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith is facing GOP primary challenger Sarah Adlakha in her quest to keep representing Mississippi in the Senate. Democratic challengers include Scott Colom, Albert Littell and Priscilla W. Till. Follow Decision Desk HQ’s live results here. "" ""

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Tuesday expressed uncertainty about President Trump banning all federal agencies from using Anthropic after the AI company and the Pentagon traded blows in recent weeks.  “I’ll confess, I have not seen a basis laid out for why the government would be prohibited from using Anthropic,” Cruz told host Andrew Ross...

A group of Senate Democrats on Tuesday called for public hearings in regard to the Trump administration’s Iran operation.  Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) alongside Sens. Jack Reed (D-R.I.) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) wrote a letter to President Trump requesting that Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth provide testimony under...

The Senate on Tuesday overwhelmingly cleared a key hurdle on a package aimed at bringing down housing costs, potentially setting up a final vote by the end of the week as the House eyes changes to the measure. Senators voted 89-9-1 on the bill, which could hit the floor for final passage by the time...

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) left a Senate Armed Service Committee briefing on the Iran war Tuesday saying he believes the Trump administration is on a path to putting U.S. troops on the ground in Iran. “We seem to be on a path toward deploying American troops on the ground in Iran to accomplish any of...