STATE AND LOCAL

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and his wife Kelley discussed on Thursday a suspicious package, filled with white powder and bearing an image threatening violence, which arrived to their Kentucky home three days before, calling the act "pure terrorism."

On Thursday morning a group of Republican senators led by Shelley Capito, W.Va., will introduce their new counter offer to President Biden’s infrastructure plan.

Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan said Wednesday that capitalism is “the best way to solve the challenges that are facing society.”

Sens. Josh Hawley and Bernie Sanders are speaking out against a $10 billion corporate “bailout” to Blue Origin, a space flight company founded by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos.

Ernst will be torching federal unemployment perks on the Senate floor Wednesday with a handful of her prominent GOP colleagues. She will say the Democrats are using unemployment benefits to "dis-incentivize work," according to remarks exclusively obtained by Fox News.

Fifteen Republican senators have written a letter to three major business and financial groups warning them against engaging with Iranian businesses if the Biden administration lifts sanctions to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.

The Colonial Pipeline may be the first of other major U.S. infrastructure attacks, says the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

Mark McCloskey, of McCloskey Law Center, explains his motivation for a potential U.S. Senate bid in 2022.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, who has in recent years become an increasingly loud proponent of marijuana legalization, said on the Senate floor Tuesday that "the time has come" to end federal prohibition of the drug.

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Sens. Mitt Romney and Kyrsten Sinema are working together on a proposal to raise the federal minimum wage after congressional Democrats failed to include a $15-an-hour hike in their coronavirus relief bill last month.

A behind-schedule and over-budget rail project in Hawaii that got $70 million in the coronavirus stimulus package is now angling for more federal money to close a $3.68 billion funding gap.

Senate Republicans are warning that President Biden’s proposed $2.7 trillion infrastructure plan will undermine jobs and ultimately crush taxpayers – the very opposite of what the bill proposes to accomplish.

President Biden has released his first budget proposal for fiscal year 2022, which includes across-the-board spending increases, with the most substantial boost allocated to the Education Department.

South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson is leading a 14-state coalition of attorneys general in opposition to a bill that would compel workers to join unions.