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U.S. Sen. Jim. Inhofe, R-Okla., speaks during a luncheon in this file photo shot in Tulsa, Okla., Friday, April 27, 2007.

Kansas Democrat Jim Slattery says voters are being misled by Republican Sen. Pat Roberts' television ads.

Jason Hubbard and his two younger brothers all served in Iraq. He was the only one to return home alive.

Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine isn't adding to talk that he's on Barack Obama's shortlist of potential running mates.

Sen. Ted Stevens, the longest-serving Republican senator and a figure in Alaska politics since before statehood, has been indicted on seven counts of falsely reporting hundreds of thousands of dollars in ...

Obama camp vets VP picks; McCain catching up in the polls. Campaign News Va. Gov. Timothy M. Kaine recently admitted to having "very serious" conversations with Ill.

Candidates in a U.S. Senate race in Mississippi are exchanging jabs over legislation designed to lower gasoline prices.

More than a million and a half businesses owe the government about $58 billion in taxes they were supposed to withhold from employees' paychecks but never forwarded to the IRS, congressional investigators said ...

National polls indicate likely Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain is competitive with his likely Democratic challenger in the U.S. heartland.

Under a Democratic dare, Senate Republicans on Monday blocked a bill that would aid victims of torture, disability and disease, insisting the legislation would add to the deficit and demanding that Congress ...

Conservative political commentator Robert Novak announced Monday he has been diagnosed with a brain tumor, less than a week after he struck a pedestrian with his Corvette and drove away.

Last week, Novak was given a $50 citation after he struck a homeless man with his black Corvette in downtown Washington. Novak kept going until he was stopped by a bicyclist, who said the man was splayed on Novak's windshield. Novak, 77, fell ill on Cape Cod this weekend while visiting his daughter and was rushed to Brigham and Women's Hospital, where he said he was diagnosed Sunday with the tumor.

Hospital spokesman Kevin Myron confirmed Novak was a patient, but said Novak requested that no further information be released.

Some Democratic campaign buttons made for distribution in Idaho show an unlikely pair: Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and Republican Sen. Larry Craig.

But don't expect the staunch Republican to throw his support behind Obama or for the presidential candidate to ask Craig to change his mind and run for Senate again. Apparently the button manufacturer picked a picture of the wrong Idaho Larry.

The 3-inch button by Tigereye Design was intended to show Obama beside Larry LaRocco, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, the Lewiston Tribune reported.

A nonprofit group that promotes artisan handicrafts made in the Appalachian region of rural North Carolina has become a point of contention in a Missouri governor's race where the candidates are grasping for a ...

Jim Lankford walks through his crop field that was damaged by the June flooding in Martinsville, Ind., Tuesday, July 23, 2008.

Some Democratic campaign buttons made for distribution in Idaho show an unlikely pair: Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and Republican Sen. Larry Craig.

But don't expect the staunch Republican to throw his support behind Obama or for the presidential candidate to ask Craig to change his mind and run for Senate again. Apparently the button manufacturer picked a picture of the wrong Idaho Larry.

The 3-inch button by Tigereye Design was intended to show Obama beside Larry LaRocco, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, the Lewiston Tribune reported.

The head of Kentucky's Libertarian Party said party leaders are not ready to take action against U.S. Senate hopeful Sonny Landham for a series of anti-Arab and anti-Muslim remarks.

OGLETHORPE, Georgia : Former President Jimmy Carter has spent his golden years as a global humanitarian: a Nobel laureate pushing for peace in the Middle East, speaking out against the war in Iraq and battling ...

Congress approved mortgage relief for 400,000 struggling homeowners Saturday as part of an election-year housing plan that also aims to calm jittery financial markets and bolster the sagging economy.

WASHINGTON : A lobbyist with ties to former Pennsylvania congressman Curt Weldon admitted in court Friday she threw her BlackBerry in a fast-food restaurant trash can to hide it from the FBI.

Republicans on Saturday blocked the Senate from considering a bill next week that would nearly double federal aid to help the poor pay heating and air-conditioning bills.

Although a dozen Senate Republicans support the measure, most voted with GOP leaders who would rather spend the time trumpeting their call to expand offshore oil drilling before Congress takes six weeks off for vacation and the presidential nominating conventions.

'The American resources on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts contain 14 billion barrels at a minimum ... more than we have imported from the Persian Gulf in the last 15 years,' said Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M.