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Richard Lugar had it all -- a sterling global reputation, bipartisan respect, a fat campaign bank account and 36 years of Senate experience.

James Carville says Democrats who think they can score an easy victory this year are fooling themselves

A John Edwards donor testified Tuesday during the corruption trial of the former presidential candidate that he told the Barack Obama campaign to believe rumors of Edwards' affair as early as June 2008.

Sen. Dick Lugar, the longest-serving Republican in the Senate, talks to Soledad O'Brien about his re-election campaign.

The Senate's longest-serving Republican became the latest casualty of the struggle between the GOP's conservatives and moderates as a tea party-backed challenger beat Indiana Sen. Dick Lugar in Tuesday's primary.

LZ Granderson says the blame for the mixed signals on gay marriage policy rests with the president, not with Joe Biden

Rep. Peter King (R-NY) says foiled terror plot shows a 'new level of sophistication' in Al Qaeda terror plans.

Douglass Cassel: Why not try them before the same civilian courts that try homegrown terrorists like Timothy McVeigh?

The latest foiled bomb plot targeting an airliner is an indication that, while the device did not ultimately pose a threat, terrorists remain determined, U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton said Tuesday.

After cabinet members express support for same- sex marriage, the White House looks to clarify the president's position.

The fight over a potential doubling of student loan interest rates this summer hits the Senate floor Tuesday with Republicans promising to block a White House-backed plan unless Democrats allow a vote on a GOP alternative.

A referendum that would constitutionally ban same-sex marriages in North Carolina is in the spotlight Tuesday, a long-time senator could go down to defeat to a fellow Republican and Wisconsin voters pick their recalled governor's opponent.

Senate Republicans will block Democrats from taking up a White House-backed bill to cap rates on some student loans unless Democrats allow a vote on a GOP alternative, the second-ranking Senate Republican said Monday.

Eric Fehrnstrom, an advisor to Mitt Romney, says the campaign was disappointed by the resignation of a spokesman.

David Frum says that, through six years of campaigning for the presidency, presumptive GOP nominee and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has allowed himself to be remade and redefined by his worst enemies.

Chris Lawrence and Nic Robertson describe the kind of bomb involved in a foiled plot to blow up a U.S.-bound jet.

National security analyst Peter Bergen talks to CNN's Wolf Blitzer about a foiled plot to blow up a U.S.-bound jet.

U.S., Yemeni and other intelligence agencies broke up a plot to bomb a U.S. airliner around the anniversary of the raid that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, a U.S. counterrrorism official said Monday.

The attorney for a 101-year-old billionaire donor whose money is at the center of John Edwards' corruption trial told jurors Monday that his client knew the hundreds of thousands of dollars she gave the former U.S. presidential candidate was not a campaign contribution.

The temptations to pound on the foreign policy theme should not obscure the serious challenges the president faces in taking this path, writes Julian Zelizer.