Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer says in daily floor remarks hours before President elect Donald Trump was to meet with Senate Republicans at the Capitol that Trump's attention-grabbing proposals like renaming the Gulf of Mexico are distractions from substantive issues,

WASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday came closer to passing a bill requiring the deportation of immigrants in the country illegally charged with minor crimes after most Democrats joined Republicans to advance it.

U.S. Senate votes to proceed on a bill that would impose new mandatory immigration detention requirements for immigrants charged with property crimes.

U.S. Senate Republicans gained more than enough Democratic support Thursday to advance a bill that would greatly expand immigration detention.

A 100-year-old Holocaust survivor revealed how her family hid from the Nazis inside a convent — as Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer honored the “living legend superwoman” on Long Island ...

Democratic New York Sen. Chuck Schumer celebrated a 100-year-old Holocaust survivor living on Long Island on Monday, gifting her with a flag that flew over the U.S. Capitol in her honor ...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., instructed his caucus not to hold back when it comes to confirmation hearings beginning this week for some of President-elect Trump's nominees for top ...