Next year, the top of Oregon’s general election ballot will be anchored by the contest for U.S. Senate. If history holds, it ...

At a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Wednesday, Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) spoke Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources Michael Rigas about certain firings of individuals ...

The Trump administration’s proposed cuts to medical research and health agencies will curtail the development of promising ...

Taken as a whole, the Council’s decision as well as the recent announcement of 22 new settlements across the West Bank, rising extremist settler violence, and a petition from cabinet ministers urging ...

If history holds, next year's U.S. Senate election in Oregon may not be much of a contest, commentator Randy Stapilus writes.

Oregon’s junior U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley, a Democrat, will seek a fourth term in Congress. Merkley, 68, announced Thursday he’d ...

During a Senate Appropriations Committee held on June 25, 2025, Senator Jeff Merkley grilled OMB Director Russell Vought over cuts to global aid initiatives like PEPFAR. The interruptions to these ...

Now that Congress has passed President Trump’s so-called “Big beautiful bill” and the president has signed it, what happens now?

U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley has officially announced he will seek a fourth term in the Senate in 2026. The 68-year-old Democrat ...

Democratic U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon announced on Thursday that he will be seeking a fourth term in Congress by ...

Oregon U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley announced he is running for a fourth term in 2026. The 68-year-old Democrat, an East Portland ...