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On the heels of the House passing the Republican tax overhaul bill Tuesday afternoon on a party-line vote, the Senate followed suit early Wednesday morning, passing it with Republican votes only.

"We’re convinced that this is one of the key ingredients to fiscal discipline," he added.

The House of Representatives, which introduced initial tax legislation barely six weeks ago on Nov. 2, was poised to act first with a Tuesday afternoon vote.

The Amtrak train that derailed south of Tacoma, Washington today was the first to carry paying passengers down a new route, the local transit authority confirms to ABC News.

At least six people were killed and the death toll is expected to rise, the official said.

President Trump praised House and Senate negotiators in a lunch meeting at the White House. “We’re very close to getting it done, we’re very close to voting,” Mr. Trump said, of the tax bill. He added later “This is the biggest thing that we’ve worked on.”

OPEC and major producers including Russia agreed last month to extend the curbs by nine months until the end of 2018.

Alabama hasn’t elected a Democrat to the Senate in 25 years.

Edwin M. Lee, an affordable housing advocate and technocrat who became the first Asian-American to be elected as mayor of San Francisco, died early on Tuesday of undisclosed causes, his office said. He was 65.

The first allegation against Franken came on November 16 

The US Supreme Court has ruled President Donald Trump's travel ban on six mainly Muslim countries can go fully into effect.

The orders gave no reasons for the court’s shift.

Taxes, government funding and immigration are just some of the thorny issues on the jam-packed agenda.

Manson’s warped teachings led members of his family to carry out murders that shocked America.

Undersheriff Phil Johnston of the Tehama County Sheriff's Office gives an update to the media about the Rancho Tehama shooting on Nov. 14, 2017.

GOP leaders try to rush through complicated tax code changes, inspiring a special-interest bacchanal the likes of which Washington has never seen.

Democrats look set to hold Virginia's governorship after an ugly race seen as a political cardiogram of the US a year after President Trump's election.

The victims in the Texas church shooting that left 26 dead ranged in age from 18 months to 77 years and included at least eight members of an extended family as well as a mother and her two young daughters

UPDATED: A passerby stopped the death toll in the Texas shooting from getting even worse when he engaged the attacker.

The president moves to make his mark on the world’s most powerful central bank