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Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe has won an easy Republican primary victory over three little-known opponents.
State-by-state results from The Associated Press of Tuesday's primaries and caucuses. The number of delegates is in parentheses. In some states, only one party's election has been decided. Elections are primaries unless otherwise indicated.
Believing his political career was over long ago, Steve Beshear spent much of last year urging other prominent Democrats to run for governor. When they declined, he decided to run himself.
Cost-conscious voters rejected school vouchers for Utah students, state-sponsored stem cell research in New Jersey and higher cigarette taxes in Oregon to fund health care for uninsured children.
Cyclist Lance Armstrong and Kentucky's new governor were among the few people who could get voters to embrace change on a day they seemed inclined to re-elect incumbents and reject ballot measures calling for new proposals.
He mocked her as "a secret admirer" of tax cuts and an opponent of measures crucial to keeping Americans safe, warning that "terrorists win and America loses" if her Democrats prevailed on Election Day. She called him dangerous and in denial, an "emperor with no clothes" who has misled the country about Iraq and presided over an economy that still fails many. Now, President Bush and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi are making nice.
Democratic Gov. Tom Vilsack of Iowa took the initial step in his long-shot bid for the White House Thursday, establishing a presidential campaign committee and seeking an early jump on 2008.
He mocked her as "a secret admirer" of tax cuts and an opponent of measures crucial to keeping Americans safe, warning that "terrorists win and America loses" if her Democrats prevailed on Election Day. She called him dangerous and in denial, an "emperor with no clothes" who has misled the country about Iraq and presided over an economy that still fails many. Now, President Bush and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi are making nice.
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi — soon to be Madam Speaker — says she had something other than politics on her mind when her phone rang early Wednesday morning.
President Bush, waking up on Wednesday to a new balance of power in Washington, picked up the phone and invited House speaker-in-waiting Nancy Pelosi to lunch.
Control of Congress in sight, Democrats ousted Sen. Conrad Burns in Montana on Wednesday and led in winner-take-all Virginia. Late victories padded their day-old majority in the House.
Keith Ellison never ran on his religion — or away from it. Ellison, a state lawmaker and lawyer, has become the first Muslim elected to Congress, and the first nonwhite elected to Congress from Minnesota.
Democrat Claire McCaskill defeated incumbent Sen. Jim Talent early Wednesday in one of the nation's most closely contested races, a campaign that focused on McCaskill's support for a stem-cell research referendum.
The House became the engine of Democratic intentions to redirect the nation. In ending 12 years of Republican control of the lower chamber of Congress, voters ushered in an era of divided government, confrontation and less predictably conservative lawmaking.
Republican Bob Corker beat Democratic Rep. Harold Ford for departing Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's seat, giving the GOP a rare bit of good news after a tight race in which both candidates claimed the deeper Tennessee roots.
In a triple setback for conservatives, South Dakota rejected a law that would have banned virtually all abortions, Arizona became the first state to defeat an amendment to ban gay marriage and Missouri approved a measure backing stem cell research.
Two-term Republican Sen. Mike DeWine, undone by state and national scandals and a sour state economy, was trounced Tuesday by Rep. Sherrod Brown in a race long ago abandoned by the GOP.
Sen. Rick Santorum, a strong voice for conservatives who rose to be the No. 3 Senate Republican, was routed Tuesday by Bob Casey, the anti-abortion, anti-gun control son of a popular Pennsylvania governor.
The latest Senate and governor races called by the Associated Press include Senate seats in Arizona, California, Washington, Hawaii and Rhode Island, and governors in Maryland, Oregon, Arkansas, Maine, Vermont, and Colorado.
It turns out all politics isn't local. Voters angry at President Bush, peeved by Washington scandal and tired of the war in Iraq vented their frustration on Republican candidates across the country.
There is still some fine-tuning to be done, but electronic voting worked well in most of the midterm elections — even with one-third of American voters facing ballot machines they'd never used before.
The battle for the Senate stretched on Wednesday, long after polls closed in an election that swept Democrats into power in the House — and delivered a repudiation of GOP scandal, the war in Iraq and the course of a nation.
Colombia demobilization plan working: 773 guerrillas in three months. Saturday, April 4th 2009 - 11:26 pm UTCColombian guerrillas are turning in by the hundreds according to the latest report from the government. In March 237 guerrillas demobilized and turned in their weapons taking the total for the first quarter of the year to 773.
Al Jazeera News - Chavez Defends Colombia Rebels"The Farc uses violence against democratic government and civil populations. In the canon of international law, that makes them a terrorist group," he said. Carlos Holguin, Colombia's interior minister said Uribe's administration "cannot accept a request of this sort".
Colombia, ELN rebels agree to restart peace talksBOGOTA, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Colombia's government and the country's second-largest guerrilla group, ELN, have agreed to restart peace talks after meeting with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, the rebels said in a report published on Monday.
Colombians Sue Chiquita Brands for Making Payments to Terror GroupIt has emerged that Cincinnati-based Chiquita Brands paid death squads and violent extremists from Columbia "protection money." These groups included AUC, ELN and FARC.
Possible ELN Ceasefire, 11 FARC Hostages Killed in ColombiaWhile there appears to be progress in ongoing talks here towards a ceasefire between the Colombian government and the insurgent National Liberation Army (ELN), it was confirmed Thursday that 11 lawmakers taken hostage in 2002 by Colombia's largest guerrilla group, the Revolutiona …
Recent events in remote sections of Colombia's territory have brought focus back to the fringe rebel groups operating inside of Colombia.
Who really won the elections in Colombia?Despite Uribe's claim that he also opposes the right-wing paramilitaries, the Armed Self-Defense of Colombia (AUC) sent congratulations on his election. [...]
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