Will there be another government shutdown in January? A Senate vote looms, here's what prediction markets say, and the latest updates.

The Senate will instead hold its first vote of the week on Tuesday as Washington prepares for a weekend snowstorm.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S. Capitol building on Veterans Day. (Win McNamee/Getty Images) (Win McNamee/Getty Images) When the government shutdown ended last month without any solution for the looming ...

Trump is turning the Caribbean into a dangerous powder keg — and Congress must rein him in,” said Chuck Schumer.

A bill banning ranked choice voting in Indiana, which the state doesn’t utilize as a voting method, passed out of the Senate Tuesday.

The U.S. Senate will be postponing its Monday vote to Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. in anticipation of this weekend’s winter storm set to hammer the East Coast. The winter storm approaching Washington, D.C., is expected to dump 9 to 12 inches of snow on the DMV and freeze Senate doors on Monday.

Early voting begins Wednesday in the state Senate runoff between a MAGA Republican and a Democratic union leader in Tarrant County. Why it matters: Democrat Taylor Rehmet was viewed as an underdog before the November special election when he faced two well-known Republicans who had raised millions of dollars.