Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The word "filibuster," which derives from a Dutch term for pirates and plunderers, somehow came to describe those who disrupt ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday again called for Republican senators to terminate the filibuster rule in a bid to end what is now the longest government shutdown in ...

Amid the U.S. government shutdown, which has stretched into its second month, President Donald Trump is ramping up the pressure on Republicans to abolish the Senate filibuster—an action commonly known ...

President Donald Trump knows he’s losing the politics of the government shutdown so far. But that’s not making him any more inclined to give ground on the Democratic demands that could bring the ...

You have to hand it to John Cornyn: In suddenly coming out for the destruction of the Senate filibuster, he acknowledges this contradicts his long-standing position on the subject. But in an op-ed, he ...

Donald Trump—juggling a war that shows more signs every week of dragging on far longer than he imagined, a nation of enraged air travelers, and a day of protests against him that was the largest of ...

Some days you sit down to write a column and realize all the ideas you have are going to piss a large section of the audience off. At that point, you have a choice to either pick one and plow ahead, ...

The word "filibuster," which derives from a Dutch term for pirates and plunderers, somehow came to describe those who disrupt legislative business. The practice is much older — Cato the Younger was ...

WASHINGTON - Seemingly frustrated by the government shutdown and Democrats' unwillingness to accept a Republican funding bill, President Donald Trump is once again demanding that the Senate eliminate ...

The word “filibuster,” which derives from a Dutch term for pirates and plunderers, somehow came to describe those who disrupt legislative business. The practice is much older — Cato the Younger was ...