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Amid banners, headlines and cheers from thousands, Birch E. Bayh Jr., newly elected United States senator from Indiana, was welcomed in his hometown of Terre Haute on Novemeber 9, 1962. With him is his wife, Marvella, and their son, Evan.
Scrutiny of the 33-year spy career of new CIA director Gina Haspel has focused on her undercover role in the harsh interrogation of suspected terrorists, but she cut her teeth in intelligence operations against Russia. She's sure to tap that latter experience as she takes over at the nation's premier intelligence agency at a time of rising tension with Moscow.
Gina Haspel arrives to her confirmation hearing at the Senate Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill, May 9, 2018, in Washington. Haspel's 33-year spy career began as the Cold War was thawing, but she was in the shadows countering Russian intelligence agencies that never stopped trying to penetrate the U.S. government.
If you think the fighting among Republicans seeking Indiana's U.S. Senate seat is childish, wait until you get a load of this. This is, quite literally, the most childish attack in Indiana's Senate race If you think the fighting among Republicans seeking Indiana's U.S. Senate seat is childish, wait until you get a load of this.
Rep. Todd Rokita officially jumped into the Indiana Senate race on Wednesday, a long-expected decision that formalizes what's already become a brutal Republican primary in the bid to unseat vulnerable Sen. Joe Donnelly Anti-abortion Democrats fading from the scene Senate Dems unveil trade agenda Senate pivots to tax reform fight MORE The Indiana congressman has long been gearing up for a bid and has not shied away from bruising battles with GOP opponent fellow Rep. Luke Messer , with whom he has sparred for months in one of the more contentious primaries ahead of the 2018 midterms.
Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer on Tuesday said Democrats will block President Donald Trump's budget proposals on expanding federal immigration forces and starting the border wall project. "Senate Democrats are prepared to fight this all the way," the New York Democrat said at an event organized by the National Council of La Raza , the country's largest Hispanic civil rights advocacy group.
Sen. Joe Donnelly, one of the most vulnerable senators up for re-election next year, had his biggest fundraising quarter since joining the Senate in 2012. Indiana Sen. Joe Donnelly steps up fundraising as GOP targets him Sen. Joe Donnelly, one of the most vulnerable senators up for re-election next year, had his biggest fundraising quarter since joining the Senate in 2012.
Rep. Jim Banks, R-3rd, said Tuesday he and his family have not decided whether they will have a residence in Washington, D.C. Banks, who joined Congress this month, told reporters at an open house at his Fort Wayne district office that he will keep his home in Columbia City.
After much dedicated service to the state of Indiana, this week marks the first time in 14 years that Marlin Stutzman is no longer serving in office. Stutzman has served both the state of Indiana as well as the country as a whole for much of his life.
If all goes smoothly, the American people will cho... . FILE - In this Oct. 22, 2016, file photo, a volunteer hands out stickers during early voting in Las Vegas.
How to make sense of what's happening as polls close on election night In the race for president of the United States, everyone's vote counts. But some count more than others.
In this Nov. 4, 2016, photo, voters wait in line to cast ballots at an early polling site in San Antonio. Your parents were right: Math really does matter.
The ex-wife of a Georgia man charged with murder after their toddler son died in a hot SUV shed tears for her boy on the witness stand Monday while testifying that her former husband would not have left him to die... The ex-wife of a Georgia man charged with murder after their toddler son died in a hot SUV shed tears for her boy on the witness stand Monday while testifying that her former husband would not have left him to die on purpose. Funeral services are set for a New York state trooper who died after being struck by a car while assisting a trucker who had stopped in a highway median.
A super political action committee run by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's allies is ushering out two new television ads set to run across Indiana in the final week of the Hoosier State's hotly contested Senate campaign. The Senate Leadership Fund has invested heavily in Indiana, where it spent large sums to help Republican Rep. Todd Young survive the GOP primary.
States that many thought would be the crux of their battle ground map, like Ohio and Florida, have moved down or completely off the list. But Democrats have successfully expanded the map enough so that they have multiple paths to the five seats they need for an outright majority - or four if Hillary Clinton wins the presidency, which also looks increasingly likely.
In 49 states, when you order breakfast in a restaurant you might be asked if you would like pancakes or an omelet. In Wisconsin, you are asked if you would like pancakes with your omelet.
Democratic former Sen. Evan Bayh and Republican Rep. Todd Young are set to face each other Tuesday evening in what could be their only debate during an increasingly bitter campaign for Indiana's open U.S. Senate seat. Bayh and Young will be joined by Libertarian candidate Lucy Brenton for the hour-long debate beginning at 7 p.m. EDT.
It shouldn't come as a surprise, but being a Washington insider isn't something that candidates brag about. At a time when voters in both parties are sick of the status quo, trading on one's influence is a huge political problem.
Evan Bayh spent substantial time during his last year in the Senate searching for a job in the private sector, even as he cast votes on issues of interest to his future corporate bosses, according to the former Indiana lawmaker's 2010 schedule, obtained exclusively by The Associated Press. The Democrat held more than four dozen meetings and phone calls with head hunters and future corporate employers over the months, beginning just days after announcing his surprise retirement from the Senate on Feb. 15, 2010, through December of that year as his term came to an end.