The US Senate has voted unanimously to remove the "most favored nation" trade status for Russia and its close ally Belarus in one bill and ban oil imports from there.

Democratic US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said the Biden administration will ask Congress for more than $6 billion dollars in economic and military aid to help Ukraine fight against Russia.

US Senate Democrats have again failed to pass voting rights legislation when two senators refused to join their own party in changing Senate rules to overcome a Republican filibuster.

After failing to persuade his fellow Democrats in the Congress to give their full backing to voting rights laws, US President Joe Biden on Thursday appeared to have backed off.

The US Senate Republican Leader, Mitch McConnell, rips into President Joe Biden’s speech in which he urged the Senate to change its filibuster rules to pass voting and elections legislation.

The US Democratic Senators are expected to present a new sanctions bill on Wednesday against Russia, which would inflict “severe costs” on the country’s economy

The US Senate voted 75 to 18 to confirm Nicholas Burns, a former US ambassador to NATO who served as Under Secretary of State between 2005 and 2008, as the next US envoy to Beijing.