The second-longest government shutdown enters its 24th day with Congress out of session and the funding lapse heading toward next week.

The Senate failed to advance two partisan bills that would have paid some federal workers during the shutdown. Democrats and Republicans remain deadlocked as the shutdown drags on.

Action News Now reporter Margot Rowe reports on the bipartisan effort by Democrat Adam Schiff of the Untied States Senate and Republican Doug LaMalfa of the United States House of

The United States Senate has confirmed Chad Meredith from Lexington to serve as a judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky.

A longshot Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate has suspended her campaign and endorsed Maine Gov. Janet Mills. In a written statement on her campaign website Thursday, Daira Smith-Rodriguez, of Biddeford, also criticized past online comments by another Democratic candidate, Graham Platner, as “profoundly troubling and disqualifying.”

There are no term limits for the United States Congress, and an analysis by the Get the Facts Data Team found that members of the 119th Congress have been in office for nearly two terms in the Senate and more than four and a half terms in the House.

U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) released the following statement Thursday on the Senate’s confirmation of Chad Meredith, of Lexington and the son of state Sen. Steve Meredith, R-Leitchfield, to serve

The bipartisan bill, supported by United States Senator Alex Padilla of California, United States Senator John Curtis of Utah, United States Senator John Hickenlooper of Colorado, and United States Se