Denver mayor John Hickenlooper's chief of staff Michael Bennet in 2003. A graduate of Wesleyan University and Yale Law School has been picked by the governor of Colorado to replace U.S. Sen.

The Senate has adjourned for the year at last. But a new Senate will be back on Tuesday.

For the past several years, as this Army installation in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains became a busy way station for soldiers cycling in and out of Iraq, the number of servicemen implicated in violent ...

U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, says he helped John Forte earn his freedom from prison because of the rapper's plans for a new life.

Claiborne Pell, the quirky blueblood who represented blue-collar Rhode Island in the U.S. Senate for 36 years and was the force behind a grant program that has helped tens of millions of Americans attend college, died Thursday after a long battle with Parkinson's disease. He was 90.

Pell, a Democrat, died at his Newport home just after midnight, according to his former assistant, Jan Demers.

Pell was first elected to the Senate in 1960. The skinny son of a New York congressman, Pell spoke with an aristocratic tone but was an unabashed liberal who spent his political career championing causes to help the less fortunate.

This Oct. 30 file photo shows the public housing complex in South Boston where president-elect Barack Obama's aunt Zeituni Onyango once lived.