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WATCH: Senate committee holds hearing on COVID-19 fraud and price gouging

By News Desk

The Senate Commerce committee held a hearing Tuesday on COVID-19 fraud and price gouging.

WATCH: Senate Republican leaders give briefing on the first year of the Biden administration

By News Desk

Senate Republican leaders will give a news briefing on Thursday following the defeat of the Democrat's voting rights bills by filibuster and will comment on the first year of the Biden administration.

WATCH: Push to change filibuster rules fails in the Senate

By Lisa Mascaro, Associated Press

Democrats could not persuade holdout senators Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and Joe Manchin of West Virginia to change the Senate procedures on this one bill and allow a simple majority to advance it.

WATCH: Senate opens debate on voting rights bills, setting up a potential filibuster showdown

By Lisa Mascaro, Associated Press

Voting legislation that is a cornerstone of the Democratic agenda and a top priority for civil rights leaders is on track for defeat.

WATCH: Former Senator Harry Reid lies in state at the U.S. Capitol

By Lisa Mascaro, Associated Press

Reid rose from poverty in a dusty Nevada mining town to the most powerful position in the U.S. Senate. He was Democratic leader for a dozen years, eight of them as majority leader.

WATCH: McConnell, Blunt hold news conference on voting rights, filibuster rules

By Associated Press

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has set next Monday's Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a deadline to either pass voting legislation or consider revising the rules around the chamber's filibuster blocking device.

WATCH: Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell says inflation poses a major threat to job market

By Christopher Rugaber, Associated Press

Federal officials have forecast three increases in the their benchmark short-term rate this year, though some economists say they envision four rate hikes in 2022.

Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson will seek reelection

By Scott Bauer, Associated Press

Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, one of former President Donald Trump’s biggest backers, announced Sunday that he will seek reelection in the battleground state, breaking his promise not to seek a third term.

Conspiracy theories paint fraudulent reality of Jan. 6 riot

By David Klepper, Associated Press

Spread by politicians, broadcast by cable news pundits and amplified by social media, the falsehoods are a stark reminder of how many Americans may no longer trust their own institutions or their own eyes.