WASHINGTON—The extended FBI background check on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh contains nothing “that we didn’t already know,” Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said Thursday morning. As senators gathered in a secure room in the basement of the U.S.

WASHINGTON—The FBI investigation into sexual assault complaints against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is nearing an end, allowing Republicans to move toward a final vote even as new accusations emerge. Investigators talked with initial witnesses, including Kavanaugh classmate and friend Mark Judge and second accuser Deborah Ramirez, who knew Kavanaugh at Yale University, then expanded to include former high school classmates Tim Gaudette and Chris Garrett, who were both listed on a calendar Kavanaugh kept in the summer of 1982.

WASHINGTON—Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is planning for a final vote in the Senate this week on the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, but the FBI may not complete its expanded investigation of Kavanaugh in time. The White House broadened its instructions to the bureau after Democrats expressed concern over Senate Republicans’ restrictions on the investigation, limiting the list of people to interview.

WASHINGTON—The FBI has reopened its background investigation into embattled Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, following a compromise Friday from Senate Republicans, led by Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz.

UPDATE: Republicans pushed Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination past a procedural hurdle Friday, but the vote on his confirmation remains delayed until the FBI investigates the allegations of sexual misconduct against him. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said Friday that all 51 Republican senators supported a motion to proceed with Kavanaugh’s nomination after a tumultuous day on Capitol Hill. The motion was approved by voice late in the day.

WASHINGTON—Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh followed the testimony of Christine Blasey Ford with a visceral and emotional defense before the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday afternoon, as he continued to deny Ford’s claim he sexually assaulted her at a party during their teenage years.

WASHINGTON—The era of blindly trusting tech behemoths to protect consumer privacy and free speech seems to be drawing to a close after a series of blunders from Google, Twitter, and Facebook.

President Donald Trump accused Google back in August of rigging its search results to prioritize negative news about him. The company responded that “search is not used to set a political agenda.”