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A full-sized model of the Russian Next-Generation Glosnass-K Satellite was displayed at CeBit 2011.

In one of the last red-state bastions of appreciation for appropriations, Sen. Thad Cochran's decision to seek re-election sets up a unique test for hard-line conservative groups that have targeted incumbents over the past few cycles.

More than 1,300 students are expected to receive degrees during the 10 a.m. Humphrey Coliseum commencement.

Few expected Mississippi's senior senator to stand for reelection. Now he'll be bringing the Republican Party's civil war to another state, facing an insurgent from the right next June.

Now that U.S. Sen Thad Cochran has announced his plans to run for re-election, the picture for 2014 has cleared up tremendously.

Republican Gov. Phil Bryant, center, flanked by Dan DiMicco, executive chairman of Nucor Corporation, left, and U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., listen as former presidential candidate and current television commentator Newt Gingrich discusses the role of home grown energy meeting this country's needs for strength, security and being sustainable ... (more)

Mississippi's two U.S. senators, Republicans Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker, responded quickly Thursday with statements of condolence on South African leader Nelson Mandela's death.

U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker will address fall semester graduates at Mississippi State University on Dec. 14. The Mississippi Republican has represented the state in the Senate since December 2007.

James Everett Dutschke has been jailed since April on charges of sending ricin-tainted letters to Obama, U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker and a Mississippi judge, Sadie Holland.

Capping a more than six year advocacy effort, President Obama has signed into law legislation authorizing the National Institutes of Health to establish the National Pediatric Research Network to strengthen and enhance the nation's commitment to pediatric biomedical research.

In an op-ed published Tuesday at USA Today , Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., warns the Obama administration is considering a proposal that could enhance Russia 's capability to spy on the U.S. using technology installed within the nation's borders.

The Employee Rights Act would give workers "more of a say on whether to join a labor union while also offering them stronger protections from union tactics regarding dues, votes and forms of intimidation," according to a joint statement from Cochran and Wicker.

U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran has introduced bipartisan legislation to reauthorize the program that helps preserve historic battlegrounds in the United States, including battlefields in Mississippi.

U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran spoke on the Senate floor a couple of times last week, a sure sign he's not going to run for a seventh term.

A Mississippi man charged with sending poison-laced letters to President Obama and other officials has been charged with trying for a second time to frame the man first arrested in the case.

The Senate passed a major change to its filibuster rules Thursday. Now, the minority party can no longer easily block nominees, except for those to the Supreme Court.

Last week Raytheon Co. announced a 150-job expansion at their plant in Forest, Mississippi.

Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana led a bipartisan group of senators Tuesday in a colloquy on the Senate floor urging colleagues to support legislation to delay increases in federal flood insurance premiums.

Sure, the bicameral panel could throw its hands up at any point before the Dec. 13 deadline to reach agreement on new spending levels for the government and declare itself unable to compromise.

This year, Americans celebrated the 23rd anniversary of the passage of The Americans with Disabilities Act, which prohibits the discrimination of individuals with disabilities, granting them equal rights.