The Senate confirmed Todd Blanche as attorney general on Saturday in a 50 to 49 vote. The Senate also passed a bill to fund the government through December. CNN’s Brian Todd reports.

The vote brings to an end a lengthy standoff between Senate Republicans and the Trump administration over Blanche, who has served as acting attorney general since April. All Democrats voted against his nomination to lead the Justice Department.

Chief congressional correspondent Chad Pergram reports on the Senate's vote to confirm Todd Blanche as U.S. attorney general ahead of the August recess.

In a narrow 50-49 vote, President Trump's former defense lawyer was confirmed as attorney general in a vote early Saturday.

Senators voted in the early hours of Saturday to approve a government spending package through December and avert another government shutdown.

The Senate has passed a short-term measure to keep federal agencies funded into early December and avoid a government shutdown during campaign season

The Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed its own short-term funding measure last ​month. The two chambers will have to ⁠resolve their ⁠differences before President ⁠Donald ​Trump can sign it into law before current ​funding expires ⁠on September 30 — less than five weeks before the November 3 congressional elections.

The House and Senate have now each passed different bills aimed at averting a shutdown at the end of the fiscal year. The House bill would fund the government through Dec. 4. The

President Donald Trump wants U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro to rethink dropping charges over damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

A group suing the Trump administration over renovations to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has accused federal officials of taking steps that could destroy evidence at the center of an ongoing legal dispute over damage to the landmark.

The president has railed against his longtime ally after Pirro’s office concluded that vandals weren't responsible for damage to the landmark.

Trump, who has repeatedly alleged that vandals damaged the pool, ⁠has ⁠sharply criticized Pirro for ⁠dropping ​the case, saying this week that she had "choked" under p

Republican Sen. Jon Husted of Ohio is calling on Rep. Max Miller to resign his House seat and abandon his fall reelection bid

A growing number of Republicans are calling on Rep. Max Miller to resign from office following abuse allegations made by his ex-wife, Emily Moreno.

Sen. Jon Husted joined Sen. Bernie Moreno, Miller's former father-in-law, in calling for the embattled congressman to step aside.

Ohio voters are grappling with allegations of serious abuse leveled at Republican Rep. Max Miller, CNN’s Lauren Fox went to his district to see how they are weighing his campaign for re-election. Miller has denied the allegations and says he will stay in the race.

A man sentenced to 15 years in prison after giving his son the gun he used in a deadly high school shooting in Georgia has asked for a new trial

Colin Gray​, the father convicted for his role in the deadly shooting at Georgia's Apalachee High School, is asking for a new trial.

Attorneys for Colin Gray, the father of convicted Apalachee High School shooter, filed a motion for a new trial in Barrow County following his 15-year prison sentence, according to court records.

Colin Gray, father of the Apalachee High School shooter, is seeking a new trial after being found guilty of second-degree murder and sentenced to 15 years in prison.

Health officials have urged caution around coastal waters and raw oysters amid deadly Vibrio vulnificus infections.

Vibrio vulnificus bacteria, a flesh-eating bacteria, has hospitalized nine and killed five in Louisiana in 2026, health officials say.

A flesh-eating bacterium found in warm coastal waters is responsible for at least five deaths so far this year in Louisiana, state health officials reported Thursday.

Five Louisiana residents have died from Vibrio vulnificus, a dangerous and rare flesh-eating bacteria infection found naturally in warm coastal waters. Four more patients are in t