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Gardner's recent decision to challenge Mark Udall , above, likely altered the Democratic Party's estimates of how much money it would be forced to spend there this fall.

When Idaho Gov. Butch Otter portrayed a corrupt sheriff in a low-budget Western movie that was later edited and rereleased as a soft-core pornographic film, he kept his clothes on.

Sen. Mitch McConnell's campaign launched a new radio ad that calls attacks from his primary challenger Matt Bevin "absurd, wrong and ridiculous."

European shares slipped in early trade on Friday as investors trod a cautious path in case of another escalation in tensions between Russia and Ukraine over the weekend.

Customs officials refuse to disclose names, criminal histories and whereabouts on more than 2,200 detainees released a year ago.

In an interview with his local newspaper, Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa said he has apologized to Rep. Elijah E. Cummings for cutting off his microphone at a Wednesday hearing - although in a separate interview he told Fox News that Cummings had a "hissy fit" and "broke the decorum of the House."

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky. walks onto the stage holding a rifle before speaking at the Conservative Political Action Committee annual conference at National Harbor, Md., Thursday, March 6, 2014.

The acting head of the U.S. derivatives regulator pleaded with federal lawmakers on Thursday to give his agency more funding, saying a tight budget has prevented staff from completing compliance exams and threatens to hobble enforcement.

The race to succeed the late C.W. "Bill" Young has stunned voters here accustomed to sleepy campaigns over the genteel congressman's popular four-decade tenure.

The Senate will hold long-awaited votes Thursday on proposals to help curb the rise of sexual assaults and rape in the U.S. military, capping almost a year of emotionally-charged debate led by the chamber's growing number of women.

The United States sought on Thursday to rebuild rocky ties with India, while stressing it would tackle differences "head on" in pursuit of its drive to quintuple bilateral trade in a decade.

The investigative arm of Congress on Wednesday agreed to look into problems with state health exchange websites around the country.

For months it has been clear that Democrats have a red-state problem in the Senate midterm elections: Seven Democratic seats are up for grabs in states Mitt Romney carried in 2012, three of them opened by retirements.

U.S. lawmakers could vote within days on legislation to aid the government of Ukraine as it seeks to rebuild the country and struggles to halt Russian military incursions, but they are still undecided as to how Washington should best deal with Moscow.

The Senate is heading for a showdown over contentious legislation to curb sexual assaults in the military by taking away the authority of senior commanders to prosecute rapes and other serious offenses.

Rep. Dave Camp vigorously defended his proposal to overhaul the federal tax code Wednesday, saying he can't wait until after November's congressional elections to work on simplifying the tax code.

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Former secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday compared Russian President Vladimir Putin's aggression in Ukraine to actions taken by Nazi leader Adolf Hitler outside Germany in the run-up to World War II.

Russia is unlikely to pull back its military forces in Ukraine's Crimean peninsula, analysts and former Obama administration officials say, forcing the United States and Europe into a more limited strategy of trying to prevent President Vladimir Putin from making advances elsewhere in the former Soviet republic.

Texas's most high-profile Tea Party challengers flamed out in Tuesday's primaries, falling far short of their goals to knock off powerful incumbents.