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This '60-Pound Brown Watermelon' Isn't Welcome on Senate Floor

Gov. Jim Justice brings Babydog everywhere, but he's reportedly been warned about voting chamber

(Newser) - West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice, elected last week as the state's newest US senator in the place of Joe Manchin, goes everywhere with Babydog, an English bulldog that Justice affectionately calls his "60-pound brown watermelon." But sources tell Axios that on Tuesday, ahead of orientation on Capitol...

Bad News for Ted Cruz in Latest Poll
Bad News for
Ted Cruz in
Latest Poll
Sep 21, 2024 11:00 AM CDT

Bad News for Ted Cruz in Latest Poll

For first time, Dem challenger Colin Allred pulls ahead of GOPer in race for Cruz's US Senate seat

(Newser) - Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and his Democratic challenger in November, Rep. Colin Allred, have agreed to debate each other next month, and a new poll suggests Cruz had better bring his A game for that matchup. Per Newsweek , in the latest survey by Morning Consult , conducted among more...

Tim Scott Puts a Ring on It
Tim Scott Puts
a Ring on It
Aug 5, 2024 10:32 AM CDT

Tim Scott Puts a Ring on It

Former presidential candidate, would-be VP, and current senator is now married to Mindy Noce

(Newser) - At the ripe old age of 58, one of South Carolina's long-term bachelors is officially off the market: Sen. Tim Scott married Mindy Noce on Saturday in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, reports the Greenville News . "Tonight, we promised to cherish and nourish each other and our marriage for...

Sen. Bob Menendez Guilty of Corruption
Menendez Is Guilty,
Schumer Tells Him to Resign
UPDATED
Jul 16, 2024 12:30 PM CDT

Menendez Is Guilty, Schumer Tells Him to Resign

Democratic senator of New Jersey was convicted on all corruption charges

(Newser) - Sen. Bob Menendez was convicted on Tuesday of all the counts he faced at his corruption trial , including accepting bribes of gold and cash from three New Jersey businessmen and acting as a foreign agent for the Egyptian government, per the AP . The jury's verdict followed a nine-week trial...

Fetterman Was Speeding Just Before Car Crash: Cops

Cops say Dem senator was 'at fault'; he says he needs 'to do better and do it slower'

(Newser) - Sen. John Fetterman suffered a bruised shoulder in a weekend car crash in Maryland, but it looks like he and wife Gisele, who was traveling with him Sunday morning when the accident took place, will be OK. The Pennsylvania Democrat's office says in a statement that the incident on...

Businessman: I Bribed Sen. Menendez With a Mercedes

Jose Uribe testified Friday he'd given luxury car to senator's wife to gain his 'power and influence'

(Newser) - On Friday, a "riveted" Manhattan courtroom filled for the corruption trial of New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez heard federal prosecutor Lara Pomerantz ask former insurance broker Jose Uribe if he'd ever committed a federal crime. When he answered in the affirmative, Pomerantz asked, "Does that include bribery...

Amid Trial, Senator Reveals Wife's Cancer Diagnosis

Bob Menendez says he and Nadine are going public because of constant questions

(Newser) - Sen. Bob Menendez said Thursday that his wife has breast cancer and will require a mastectomy, a revelation made just as the presentation of evidence began at his New York bribery trial . The New Jersey Democrat said he was revealing his wife's health crisis at her request after repeated...

Menendez May Blame His Wife: Court Doc

Per unsealed filing, Dem senator may implicate Nadine Menendez in bribery trial set for May

(Newser) - Bob Menendez's bribery trial is looming in May, and a March court filing unsealed this week reveals what part of his defense may entail: throwing his wife, Nadine Menendez, under the bus. Politico reports that the court document released on Tuesday by order of Judge Sidney Stein sought to...

Senator's Wife Seeks to Delay Trial Over Medical Issue
Menendez Trial to Proceed
Without His Wife
UPDATED
Apr 11, 2024 1:23 PM CDT

Menendez Trial to Proceed Without His Wife

Nadine Menendez, also facing bribery charges, will be tried separately because of health issue

(Newser) - Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey will go to trial as scheduled on May 6 over bribery charges, but his wife will not be tried with him. Citing an undisclosed medical issue involving Nadine Menendez that will require surgery, the judge in the case has ordered separate trials, reports NBC...

Independent Journalist Flagged Katie Britt's Timeline
Katie Britt
Fallout
Continues
the rundown
Mar 11, 2024 12:13 PM CDT

Katie Britt Fallout Continues

Senator insists she was not trying to mislead with decades-old sex trafficking story out of Mexico

(Newser) - Sen. Katie Britt's first big foray onto the national stage continues to make headlines, but probably not the ones she'd wanted. The junior Alabama senator delivered the GOP rebuttal to President Biden's State of the Union address, and she's been fending off criticism ever since that...

Youngest Female Senator Will Deliver SOTU Response

Katie Britt is the 'opposite of everything Joe Biden is,' fellow GOP senator says

(Newser) - "She's young, female, and full of energy—opposite of everything Joe Biden is," Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin says of his colleague Sen. Katie Britt, who will deliver the GOP response to President Biden's State of the Union address. The 42-year-old from Alabama is the youngest Republican...

This Possible Future VP Is Now a Definite Future Husband

South Carolina GOP Sen. Tim Scott asked girlfriend Mindy Noce to marry him, she said yes

(Newser) - "She said YES." That was the message posted on social media Sunday night by South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, announcing his engagement to Mindy Noce, a mom of three and interior designer in her late 40s who first publicly showed up by the 58-year-old senator's side at...

Fetterman: Both Right and Left 'Are Hoping That I Die'

Democratic senator takes flak over pro-Israel stance, balks at 'progressive' label for himself

(Newser) - John Fetterman has been a staunch, vocal supporter of Israel since the Oct. 7 terrorist attack by Hamas, advocating for the return of Israeli hostages, slamming calls for a ceasefire in Gaza, even draping himself in the Israeli flag on occasion. Thanks to this stance, 16 former campaign staffers have...

GOP Senator on Teamsters Boss: 'In Oklahoma, You Don't Do This'

Markwayne Mullin says he was showing 'Oklahoma values' in trying to fight Sean O'Brien at hearing

(Newser) - A fight between the Teamsters union chief and a Republican senator almost got physical Tuesday and had to be refereed by Bernie Sanders at a Senate meeting on labor unions that "went off the rails," per the Daily Beast . After the verbal back-and-forth had ended, that GOP senator,...

A Manchin Run for the WH Could Pull In the 'Double Haters'
As Manchin
Exits the Senate,
WH Buzz Begins
THE RUNDOWN
Nov 10, 2023 9:59 AM CST

As Manchin Exits the Senate, WH Buzz Begins

Conservative Dem could draw 'double haters' of Biden, Trump if he runs for president

(Newser) - Joe Manchin's announcement Thursday that he won't be running for reelection next year to represent West Virginia in the US Senate has Democrats now sweating over the loss of one of their own seats, putting the party's razor-thin 51-49 majority in peril. Now, new buzz is swirling...

Tim Scott Brought Surprise Guest to the GOP Debate

South Carolina senator publicly reveals girlfriend of a year, Mindy Noce

(Newser) - Tim Scott is unusual among the remaining Republican presidential candidates in that he's not married, and that single status has caused more than a little consternation among donors and prompted speculation on his love life. On Wednesday evening, the South Carolina senator addressed his status with a surprise guest...

Man Charged With Antisemitic Threats to Jewish Senator

John Anthony Miller allegedly vowed to 'finish what Hitler started' in messages to Jacky Rosen

(Newser) - A Nevada man has been arrested after allegedly leaving antisemitic voicemails at the office of Sen. Jacky Rosen. Before becoming the third Jewish woman to serve in Congress, Rosen served as president of Nevada's largest synagogue. Part of a delegation of senators who visited Israel after Hamas' Oct. 7...

Menendez Pleads Not Guilty to New Federal Charge

New Jersey senator is charged with failing to register as foreign agent of Egypt

(Newser) - Sen. Bob Menendez pleaded not guilty Monday to a new federal charge filed in a superseding indictment earlier this month. The Democrat, who pleaded not guilty to bribery charges in September, entered a not guilty plea to a charge that he conspired to act as a foreign agent of Egypt,...

She's Expected to Be a Senator in 2 Days
Laphonza Butler Is
America's Newest Senator
UPDATED
Oct 3, 2023 3:14 PM CDT

Laphonza Butler Is America's Newest Senator

Third Black woman to serve in Senate was sworn in by the second

(Newser) - America's newest senator, Democratic Sen. Laphonza Butler, was sworn in to replace the late Sen. Barbara Feinstein on Tuesday, making history in more ways than one. Butler, president of the Emily's List fundraising group, is the third Black woman to serve in the Senate and she was sworn...

One Line Explained Feinstein's Role in Gay Rights

She 'doesn't care who you sleep with, as long as you're in bed by 11 o'clock," a gay ally once said

(Newser) - Dianne Feinstein, who has died at the age of 90 , is being hailed as a trailblazer for women. She was, after all, the first female mayor of San Francisco before moving on to the US Senate, notes ABC News . But as Politico notes in a story headlined "The Dianne...

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