A prostitution scandal involving US Secret Service agents in Cartagena, Colombia, involved as many as 20 women, US Senator Susan Collins says.

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Democratic Senator Ben Nelson will not seek re-election next year – in a blow to efforts by President Barack Obama’s party to keep control of the chamber.

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On Dec. 6, 1877, the Washington Post published its first issue ever. The newspaper was four pages long and cost three cents. Back then, as today, we covered the local (“the business along Water Street was very dull”), the sensational (“an old bachelor died of the combined effects of cat-bite with his own folly”) and the political (“Did Senator Davis Dodge?”). An editorial chastised Spain for the continued war in Cuba: “The brutal, corrupt and avaricious Government of Spain has been as powerless to crush freedom in Cuba as King George to suppress the lovers of independence in this country.” A marriage notice noted the bride was ”the beautiful daughter of a mother as beautiful.” Read full article > >

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Former Senator George McGovern was flown to a hospital in Sioux Falls after he fell and hit his head Friday. His condition was not yet made public.

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George McGovern Hospitalized After Fall

Ms. Kennedy, the eldest of Senator Edward M. Kennedy’s children, led a more private life than most Kennedys of her generation.

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Kara Kennedy, Daughter of Edward Kennedy, Dies at 51

Here comes another one: Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum officially entered the 2012 presidential race on Monday. The conservative icon, who also flirted with a run in 2008, threw his hat in the ring for the Republican nomination during an…

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BIG SANDY, Mont. — After three days on the road talking to voters, Jon Tester finally made it home. He rumbled down seven miles of dirt road and pulled up to his wheat farm. He untied his tie, changed into jeans and climbed into his tractor. Then Tester flipped on the radio. Even here, at peace on his windswept homestead, 48 miles from the closest McDonald’s and a world removed from Washington, Tester couldn’t escape his day job. “Why does Senator Tester side with the big banks and not us?” a man asked over harrowing music in a radio ad. Read full article > >

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US Senator John Kerry arrives in Pakistan for talks with President Asif Ali Zardari, amid strained ties following the US raid that killed Osama Bin Laden.

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US envoy Kerry in Pakistan talks

The Senate ethics committee has made a criminal referral to the Justice Department in its investigation into former Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.), saying that its probe found that he had broken the law in his actions following his affair with a political aide. “We had reason to believe Senator Ensign violated laws,” Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), the chairman of the panel, said Thursday afternoon. The ethics committee found that Ensign “aided and abetted violations of the one-year post-employment contact restriction; conspired to violate that restriction; made false statements to the Federal Election Commission; violated campaign finance laws; and obstructed the committee’s preliminary inquiry.” Read full article > >

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US Senator John Kerry will travel to Pakistan this week with aim of getting the nations back “on the right track” after the killing of Osama Bin Laden.

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Kerry to meet Pakistani ‘players’

The Missouri Democratic Senator’s acknowledgment that she has almost $300,000 in unpaid taxes on a private airplane means she had a very bad week.

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The decision by Senator Jim Webb gives Republicans another opportunity to help them reclaim the majority.

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The Caucus: Virginia Democrat Will Not Run for Re-election

The DLC dies , and all Team Commie assembles to rejoice: In the Obama era, the group has simply struggled for relevance. Its leaders remained close to the Clintons, and presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton headlined the DLC’s 2006 annual gathering in Denver. But as Hillary Clinton’s presidential fortunes waned, so did the DLC’s influence. By the summer of 2008, the organization was kicking off its annual meeting a mere block from Senator Barack Obama’s campaign headquarters in Chicago – but the candidate didn’t find time to drop by. The organizational issues that followed, and seemingly delivered the final blow, were more mundane.  DLC CEO Bruce Reed, a former senior Clinton White House aide, decided in 2009 that the group should be more of a thinktank and less a networking outfit, sending its sister organization, PPI, out on its own and splitting the groups’ diminishing resources and fundraising base. But Reid left last year to become Vice President Joe Biden’s chief of staff, and the group was unable to recruit a successor with his – much less From’s – capacity to raise the money to keep the group alive, people involved said.  Truthfully, I can’t tell if these guys were a victim of their own success or their own failure. They made some really catastrophic mistakes. I think reflexively, and almost cynically, backing the Iraq War was a big one. I think supporting Joe Lieberman, after he lost the primary, and then watching him support John McCain was a big one. I think helping to aid the ascent of the “Tough On Crime” era has had, and will continue to have, disturbing repercussions. But much of what the DLC advocated just strikes me, these days, as run of the mill Democratic politics. On a policy level, it’s hard for me not to see Obama in the same mold

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Moderation in All Things

Linda McMahon, the professional wrestling mogul who spent $50 million in her failed Senate bid last year, is the most prominent possible candidate to replace Senator Joseph Lieberman.

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Familiar Face Among Connecticut Pack of Maybes for Senate

A Democrat-turned-Independent, now strongly disliked by members of his former party, Senator Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut saw re-election as a long shot.

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No Fifth Term for Lieberman