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Pahlavi or Khamenei: Iran is at a crossroads - opinion

The West keeps mistaking regime survival tactics for reform; the Iranians know better and have paid with their lives.

|ByMANI BASHARZAD, MIKE SALEM
Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of the last Shah of Iran, attends a press conference about the situation in Iran and the need to support Iranians, in Paris, France, June 23, 2025.
FILE PHOTO: Kevin Warsh, Fellow in Economics at the Hoover Institution and lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, speaks during the Sohn Investment Conference in New York City, U.S., May 8, 2017.

Senate Democrats seek pause in Warsh nomination amid Fed probes

Senate Democrats urged a delay in Kevin Warsh’s nomination as Fed chair, citing Justice Department probes into current Federal Reserve leaders and warning of political pressure on the central bank.

|ByREUTERS
A view of the US Capitol building a day before a partial government shutdown is scheduled to take place, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, US, September 30, 2025.

US government starts likely brief shutdown as House fails to approve deal

The Senate passed the spending package by a bipartisan vote of 71 to 29, but the House of Representatives is out of town and not expected to take up the measure until Monday.

|ByREUTERS, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
US Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) speaks with the media while arriving for a vote, as members of Congress work to resolve a dispute over immigration enforcement and avert a looming partial government shutdown, on Capitol Hill in Washington, January 29, 2026.

Democrats say deal reached with Trump to avert shutdown, immigration talks to continue

Senate Democrats strike a deal to prevent a partial government shutdown, temporarily separating immigration issues from funding talks to secure essential government operations.s

|ByREUTERS

Senator Joe Lieberman and 'The Jerusalem Report' - opinion

Ironically, as I watched the senator read my Jerusalem Report, I had been writing fairly regularly for the publication – mainly providing interesting anecdotes from the Jewish world.

APRIL 26, 2024ByHOWARD BLAS
Senators Joe Lieberman (left) and John McCain visit the Western Wall on March 19, 2008.

US House sends impeachment of Biden border official to Senate

The 100 senators are due on Wednesday to be sworn in as jurors for a trial that could take at least a week.

APRIL 16, 2024ByREUTERS
US President Joe Biden looks on during his visit at the Chavis Community Center in Raleigh, North Carolina, US, March 26, 2024.

My stepfather, Joe Lieberman, modeled integrity inside and out

Senator Joe Lieberman would have been a star pupil in Rabban Gamliel’s academy.

APRIL 3, 2024ByRABBI ETHAN TUCKER/JTA
JOE LIEBERMAN

Father of lone soldier killed in Jerusalem stabbing attack running for Georgia state Senate

David Lubin is running in Georgia’s May 21 primary as a moderate Democrat.

FEBRUARY 27, 2024ByJACKIE HAJDENBERG/JTA
MOURNERS ATTEND the funeral of Border Police Sgt. Rose Ida Lubin at Mt. Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem, earlier this month. She was murdered in a stabbing attack.

Progressive members of US Senate express concern over aid bill funding 'blank check' for Netanyahu

In a statement, Van Hollen said he was disappointed the bill included a blanket ban on any funds going to UNRWA.

FEBRUARY 13, 2024ByHANNAH SARISOHN
Members of the 118th Congress raise their right hands as they are sworn into office to serve in the US House of Representatives on the fourth day of Congress at the US Capitol in Washington, US, January 7, 2023.

US Senate tables resolution for assessing potential Israeli human rights violations

Independent Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, introduced the resolution last year on Dec. 14. 

JANUARY 17, 2024ByHANNAH SARISOHN
US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer next to House Speaker Mike Johnson and House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, as supporters of Israel gather in solidarity and protest against antisemitism, amid the war with Hamas, during a rally on the National Mall in Washington, US November 14, 2023.

Senate staffer fired after sex tape scandal, shows explicit acts in Senate building

The video had been initially shared in a private group chat for gay men in politics, before being leaked online.

DECEMBER 19, 2023ByYUVAL BARNEA
The US Capitol building, which contains the House of Representatives and the Senate.

After uproar, NY State Sen. Julia Salazar fires staffer who endorsed Hamas attack

Salazar said that her staffer's comments "do not reflect" the senator or her office.

NOVEMBER 22, 2023ByLUKE TRESS/JTA
Salazar speaking on a bill in the New York Senate chamber, March 2021

US Senate Democrats block Republican bid to aid Israel, not Ukraine

The House bill would provide $14.3 billion for Israel as it responds to a deadly Oct. 7 attack by Hamas, but also cut the same amount of money from the IRS.

NOVEMBER 7, 2023ByREUTERS
US senate floor

Senator, Homeland Security chief clash over pro-Hamas DHS employee

The Department of Homeland Security employee had shared images praising Hamas paragliders.

NOVEMBER 6, 2023ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
US Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) questions U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas about social media posts regarding the Israel-Hamas war he identified as being made by a DHS emloyee, during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on threats to the United St