Steve Daines

Tom Cotton over a stalled bill to establish year-round daylight saving time is throwing an unexpected twist in the Arkansas Republican’s reelection race and sets up a fierce fight in the Senate this fall over the biannual changing of clocks

That window probably would be the last chance for President Donald Trump to get a conservative successor to the 76-year-old justice confirmed by the Senate if Democrats take the upper chamber

US Republican Senator Steve Daines, a close aide to President Donald Trump and a key interlocutor between Washington and Beijing, has called on the two capitals to stay engaged and “not retreat” over differences on issues including rare earth supply chains

The vote was largely along party lines, with every Republican voting no except for Rand Paul of Kentucky ‌and every ‌Democrat except John Fetterman of Pennsylvania in favor

Trump faces flurry of shouted questions next to Xi after being forced to let media back into White House

Trump faces flurry of shouted questions next to Xi after being forced to let media back into White House

Wicker, who chairs the Senate Armed Services Committee, has been one of the more vocal Republicans about his disdain for the meeting, which kicked off Wednesday afternoon when Trump met Xi at Joint Base Andrews — the first time a president has met with a foreign dignitary there since 2015

But it faces strong headwinds in the Senate, with one key Republican senator warning the bill won’t “see the light of day.”

Daines is a member of two of the most powerful committees in the US Senate: the Foreign Relations and Finance Committees

Senator Mark Warner, who was also selected for the honour, was unable to attend the event in person

The group approved the name change at a plenary meeting in Tokyo

The Republican-led Senate voted 52-46 along party lines in favor of Republican National Committee ‌lawyer Katie Lane joining the bench as a district court judge in Montana, despite the ABA deeming her as having too little legal experience to warrant a judgeship

What was expected to be an easy path to victory in Montana was shaken up earlier in 2026

Decisive Paxton Victory Puts Pressure on Republican Detractors

US President Donald Trump arrived in Beijing on Wednesday for his highly anticipated summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping

Trump arrived in Beijing last night for a three-day visit during which he is scheduled to have several rounds of talks with Xi

Beijing has been ramping up its military pressure by sending warplanes and naval vessels around the island almost daily

China claims democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory and regularly describes it as the most sensitive and important issue in its relations with Washington

Both leaders will emerge to a fanfare of superficial deals that each can claim as a win: the sale of American soybeans and perhaps jet engines that China desperately needs

Steve Kornacki lays out everything you need to know before polls close in Indiana this evening, where the focus is more local than usual

His recruitment coups in North Carolina, Alaska and Ohio this cycle were hailed as masterstrokes

Then, one of the biggest issues for the two leaders was extending a newly announced yearlong trade truce

Montana’s senior senator is serving his second term and was widely expected to secure a third in Big Sky Country, where President Donald Trump won by nearly 20 points in 2024

Discussions spanned trade, tech, and defense, with India's strong economic growth reinforcing their shared vision