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WASHINGTON — The Senate agreed unanimously early Friday to fund the Department of Homeland Security, but without funding for immigration enforcement and deportation operations. Senators approved the package at 2:20 a.m. by voice vote following a marathon session. The 42-day funding lapse has seen them go without pay, leading many to call out of work

TLDR Senate Democrats urged the Justice Department and Treasury to investigate Binance over alleged Iran sanctions violations. Lawmakers cited reports that $1.7 billion in digital assets moved to Iranian entities through Binance. The senators raised concerns that Binance may have breached its 2023 federal settlement obligations...

Senate on Thursday confirmed Mrs Ayo Omidiran as the Executive Chairman of Federal Character Commission (FCC) and 37 commissioners representing the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the confirmation followed the adoption of the screening report presented by Chairman of the Senate Committee on Federal

The Thai Senate is now looking for a resolution of a bottleneck caused by the regulation of casino resorts (known as entertainment complexes locally), with lawmakers not in agreement on what the next steps should be. Entertainment Complexes Are a Non-Starter in Thailand for Now While there has been support for the passage of such

Thailand’s Entertainment Complex Bill, suspended after the impeachment of Paetongtarn Shinawatra, could return to the front burner under certain conditions. Thailand’s controversial Entertainment Complex Bill, which would have established a legal casino industry in the Southeast Asian nation, got the official thumbs-down from lawmakers on Tuesday. According to the Bangkok Post, a Senate committee formally

  August 19, (THEWILL) — In furtherance of his commitment to sports development in the country, the Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Barau Jibrin, has concluded arrangements to upgrade the facilities of the Bayero University Kano (BUK) stadium. This is contained in a statement issued by Ismail Mudashir, the Special Adviser to the Deputy

The Senate is under a legal duty to recall the Senator in accordance with section 287(3) of the Constitution which stipulates as follows The post Senate bound by order of Justice Nyako to recall Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan forthwith appeared first on Vanguard News...

On Wednesday, Utah Sen. Mitt Romney announced he would not run for reelection in 2024. On the surface, the electoral impact of Romney’s decision is minimal — his seat should stay safely in Republican hands. But it’s still notable because it represents the departure of one of the few remaining Republican senators who had a