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A bipartisan compromise on student loans started to take shape in the Senate on Wednesday, preserving fixed-rate loans for all students and linking interest rates with the financial markets.

The celebration of West Virginia's 150th anniversary of statehood will be marked with a lot of activities which make West Virginia unique.

Sen. Barbara Boxer of California is privately lobbying fellow Democrats on the Environment and Public Works Committee against a toxic chemical bill negotiated by Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg in the weeks before his death.

Education Secretary Arne Duncan and National Economic Council Director Gene Sperling will huddle with Democratic senators on Thursday to seek a way to prevent student loan rates from doubling in less than two weeks.

The federal government is providing more than $2 million to Mingo County to extend water service and fire protection to about 250 households.

A member of the Kennedy family will come to Wheeling this week on West Virginia's 150th birthday to honor the state's place in Kennedy family history and discuss the need to eliminate child poverty in West Virginia, state Senate President Jeff Kessler announced.

The bracket style competition featured 65 foods from all 50 states, and it raked in more than a half a million votes.

President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden welcomed the LGBT community and its allies to a Pride reception at the White House where Obama urged passage of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act after touting a list of his accomplishments thus far.

Gun violence survivors, faith leaders, veterans, gun-owners and concerned citizens will join together in a day of remembrance and a call to action at events in 10 states June 14 to commemorate the six-month anniversary of the shooting at Sandy Hook School.

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., right, meets with Sandy Hook, Conn. Elementary School, families and friends of victims on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 12, 2013.

The Obama administration will try to revive its push for tighter restrictions on firearms, almost two months after legislation seen as the best hope for gun control went down to defeat in the Senate.

Ohio's Republican U.S. senator and two of its House members will team up with all-time football stars to push for a commemorative coin to benefit the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

From 1998 to 2002, Fletcher served two terms in the West Virginia House of Delegates as a Republican.

In a story that has gotten little attention in the wake of the NSA surveillance controversy that broke at the end of last week, Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin suggested in an interview Friday that it may be time for Attorney General Eric Holder to go.

Ohio's Republican U.S. senator and two of its House members will team up with all-time football stars to push for a commemorative coin to benefit the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Sen. Joe Manchin advised embattled Attorney General Eric Holder on Friday to consider resigning amid controversies over the Justice Department's investigations into leaks involving the Associated Press and Fox News.

When West Virginia's Sen. Joe Manchin pushed a simple plan to keep pistols and assault guns out of the hands of criminals and psychotics, most Americans supported him.

U.S. Senator Joe Manchin, a Democrat from West Virginia, talks about the outlook for gun-control and immigration legislation, the Obama administration's broad surveillance of telephone calls and Internet usage, and Syria's civil war.

President Barack Obama should end the broad surveillance of telephone calls and Internet usage, Democratic Senator Joe Manchin said today.

Many West Virginia households still do not have access to the Internet. That's because the state's mountains and valleys make it difficult to connect up.