WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans are taking the first steps to change the chamber’s rules on Thursday, making it easier to confirm groups of President Donald Trump’s nominees and overcome ...

Senate Republicans are set to change the upper chamber’s rules, enabling the majority to confirm a slate of executive branch nominees by a single vote instead of going through a laborious floor vote ...

WASHINGTON — Republican leaders are moving closer to implementing a major change to Senate rules that would allow them to confirm scores of President Donald Trump’s nominees in batches, rather than ...

The rules change will allow the Senate to confirm multiple people at once, helping to clear a backlog of nearly 150 Trump nominees awaiting floor votes. Republicans moved Thursday to speed up Senate ...

Senate Republicans took a final procedural step Wednesday to speed up consideration of President Donald Trump’s lower-level nominees, setting up the confirmation of dozens of appointees as early as ...

For more politics coverage and analysis, sign up for Here’s the Deal, our weekly politics newsletter, here. Senate Republicans united Thursday to change a core Senate function — the way the chamber ...

Senate Republicans took the first step on Monday to invoke the so-called “nuclear” option to change chamber rules and allow dozens of President Donald Trump’s pending nominees to be swiftly confirmed ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader John Thune says he’s ready to change the chamber’s rules to allow quick confirmations of dozens of President Donald Trump’s executive branch nominees, moving ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune says he’s ready to change the chamber’s rules to allow quick confirmations of dozens of President Donald Trump’s executive branch nominees, moving this week to speed ...

The NBA will implement a rule change in the upcoming season to record missed end-of-period heaves as team field goal attempts rather than individual player attempts. Because the reclassification means ...