[Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:42:02 GMT]
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West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin wins the Democratic primary in the race for the late Robert C. Byrd's Senate seat. On the GOP side, businessman John Raese beat out nine contenders.
Sen. John McCain won the Arizona primary Tuesday and is favored to win a fifth Senate term. However, his role in his party and national politics is uncertain.
Defying the anti-establishment anger, Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski forcefully makes her case for another term. "Seniority actually means something in the Senate," she insists at a fundraiser in this southeast Alaska tourist and fishing town.
Veteran Rep. Maxine Waters says she violated no House rules and did no wrong in connection with alleged ethics violations, including an assertion she sought federal assistance for a bank where her husband served on the board.
Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin of Illinois had a stomach tumor removed on Thursday and is recovering at the University of Chicago Medical Center.
A pilot who saw the wreckage of the plane carrying former Sen. Ted Stevens and others thought as he looked down: No one could have survived.
Determined to show a commitment to stopping the flow of illegal immigrants, the Senate convened a special session Thursday and passed a $600 million bill to put more agents and equipment along the Mexican border.
A combative Rep. Charles Rangel told the House on Tuesday he's not resigning despite 13 charges of wrongdoing and demanded the ethics committee not leave him "swinging in the wind."
The imam behind controversial plans for a mosque near the site of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks is being sent by the State Department on a religious outreach trip to the Middle East, officials said Tuesday, in a move that drew criticism from conservative lawmakers.
President Barack Obama has signed a $26 billion jobs bill to protect 300,000 teachers and other nonfederal government workers from election-year layoffs.