The Roman Senate started life as an advisory council, filled entirely with patricians. In the last two centuries of the republic, however, it had become much more powerful and a major player in ...

In the first century BC, Rome was a republic. Power lay in the hands of the Senate, elected by Roman citizens. But the senators were fighting for power between themselves. Order had given way to ...

Escalating lawfare sealed the collapse of the Roman Republic after 500 years of extraordinary success. For the last century ...

According to the law of the Roman Republic, any provincial governor leading ... Alarmed by his growing power, the Senate ordered Caesar to set aside his command. Caesar had no intention of obeying ...

Violence exploding in public spaces, corruption by political figures and economic elites, the will of the people thwarted in both elections and votes in the senate ... a republic in disarray. These ...

The mysterious Sibylline Books were a number of secretly kept Greek oracle collections that the rulers of Ancient Rome ...

U.S. Senators on Thursday called Steward Health Care’s CEO the poster child for corporate greed in health care and vowed to ...

Steward Health Care CEO Ralph de la Torre invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination rather than testify ...

Senate committee intends to seek contempt proceedings against the CEO of Steward Health Care after the hospital executive skipped committee hearing.

The chamber’s approval clears away the last major hindrance to the sweeping proposals championed by the president, which have ...

Amid intense protests, Mexico's Senate approves a constitutional change to elect judges by popular vote, a win for outgoing ...