Sen. Edward Kennedy's family has marked the anniversary of his death in Massachusetts with a Mass and the renaming of a community health center in his honor.

A Republican civil war is raging, with righter-than-thou conservatives dominating ever more primaries in a fight for the party's soul.

Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano is seeking comment from Montanans living near the Canadian border before deciding whether to shut down an underused crossing that is in the middle of a multimillion-dollar renovation.Napolitano is in Havre on Wednesday to hold a town hall on border security.

A conservative political group is airing a TV ad in several Kentucky cities attacking Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jack Conway for supporting "ObamaCare." The ad by Washington-based Crossroads Grassroots Policy Strategies chides Conway, Kentucky's attorney general, for endorsing President Barack Obama's health care reforms and refusing to join ...

Impact from the Alaska plane crash that killed former U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens and four others earlier this month dislodged an emergency locator beacon from its mounting bracket, federal investigators said.

Sen. John McCain routed conservative challenger J.D. Hayworth on Tuesday in the Republican primary in what could be the final campaign for the former GOP presidential nominee.

Sen. John McCain routed conservative challenger J.D. Hayworth on Tuesday in the Republican primary in what could be the final campaign for the former GOP presidential nominee.

Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski trailed her lesser-known conservative opponent Tuesday in a surprisingly tight race that was seen as a test of the political power of Sarah Palin and the tea party movement.

U.S. Sen. Max Baucus says investor and philanthropist Warren Buffett is scheduled to participate in the Montana Economic Development Summit in Butte next month.

U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy has easily won a spot on Vermont's general election ballot.

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., left, greets supporters with his wife Cindy McCain, middle, at a McCain campaign function Monday August 23, 2010, in Phoenix.

In a Sunday, July 18, 2010 photo, Alvin Greene, Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, makes his first public speech at Manning Junior High School, in Manning, S.C. Greene was indicted Friday, August 13, 2010 on two charges, including a felony charge of showing pornography to a South Carolina college student.

The U.S. Education Department said Tuesday that nine states and the District of Columbia will get money to reform schools in the second round of the $4.35 billion "Race to the Top" grant competition.

U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer says New York will win millions of dollars in federal education funding when "Race to the Top" program grants are announced Tuesday.

They've been finding hidden bombs, drugs and corpses for years, using their sense of smell to locate what their human handlers would otherwise have to see in plain sight.Now dogs are being deployed in prisons to help curb one of the most serious problems confronting corrections officials: smuggled cell phones.It turns out that cell phones smell.

The secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development got a firsthand look Monday at northwestern North Dakota's housing shortage, caused by the region's booming oil industry.

Instead of saying thanks, some residents rebuked Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Sen.

A vanquished Republican candidate is making a comeback in Nevada's U.S. Senate race, but not on the November ballot.

Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was defiant Sunday, vowing to make a political comeback if a new trial clears him of corruption charges.

Former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel - a Republican - is throwng his support behind Democrat Joe Sestak in Pennsylvania's U.S. Senate race.