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• Two US senators live on remote island for Discovery's Rival Survival

  11 Sep 2014: Reality show puts Jeff Flake and Martin Heinrich, respectively a Republican and Democrat, on Marshall Island for six days

• Police using military gear in riots could be forced to repay millions in grants

  9 Sep 2014: Senators express concern over scenes in Ferguson in review hearing on federal militarisation of local police forces

• East coast primaries see neophytes and businessmen challenge incumbents

  9 Sep 2014: Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, New York and Delaware voters to choose which candidates will represent their party

• Feinstein: CIA torture report will be delayed as Democrats decide redactions

  9 Sep 2014: Though 600-page report was planned for September, top senator says arguments may not finish until after midterms

• Congress returns for short session in mad dash before midterm elections

  8 Sep 2014: Lawmakers return for abbreviated session with to-do list that includes averting shutdown and extending internet tax freeze

• Democrats tell Obama: drop immigration reform to save Senate

  5 Sep 2014: Party officials have launched intense lobbying campaign to convince White House of the electoral damage the party could suffer if executive action carried out

• Immigration tensions bubble up among Democrats as midterms near

  3 Sep 2014: Senators accused of pressuring the White House to delay executive action until after crucial November elections

• 'Too cautious' Obama urged to get tough on Russia and Isis

  31 Aug 2014: Republicans and Democrats call on president to take harder approach on Russian intervention in Ukraine and Isis in Syria

• Expand US air strikes on Isis militants, senior Republicans urge

  24 Aug 2014: Mike McCaul calls Isis ‘the worst threat to the US since 9/11’ but Democrats caution against overstating Isis’s danger to America

• Alaska picks Dan Sullivan over Tea Party's Joe Miller in Senate primary

  20 Aug 2014: Former state attorney general will face Democratic incumbent Mark Begich in crucial November midterm election

• UK ambassador 'lobbied senators to hide Diego Garcia role in rendition'

  16 Aug 2014: Rights groups claim that top-level talks were part of bid to redact link to Diego Garcia from report

• Obama doubles down on threat to act against 'tax inversions' by US firms

  7 Aug 2014: Following Walgreens’ change of action to remain in US tax jurisdiction, the president defends controversial stance on issue

• Obama has 44 cousins in the Senate. Now can't we all just get along?

  7 Aug 2014: AJ Jacobs: Forget the president’s Tea Party cousin or Washington animosity. My research shows that we’re all part of one big family. A dysfunctional one, but still – come on, cousins!

• The CIA is getting away with keeping every important secret about torture

  7 Aug 2014: Trevor Timm: A definitive Senate report about one of America’s darkest periods continues to be withheld – precisely because the agency behind it refuses to come clean

• Shrewd Feinstein shows restraint in bid to reverse CIA torture report redactions

  6 Aug 2014: Chair of the Senate intelligence committee has yet to demand John Brennan’s resignation – and it could help her cause

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