The Democratic pursuit of 60 Senate seats received new life Tuesday night after Alaska Democrat Mark Begich was declared the winner against Ted Stevens, the longest-serving Republican in the Senate.

Begich defeated the Senate giant by a 3,724-vote …

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Buzz continued Tuesday about the possibility that Hillary Rodham Clinton will be Barack Obama’s secretary of state — though Clinton insiders also told Politico that the New York senator might reject the job. 

There are …

Ted Stevens’ 40-year career in the Senate has ended on his 85th birthday.

After a two-week-long process of counting nearly 90,000 absentee and early votes from across Alaska, Democrat Mark Begich has defeated one of the giants in the …

If Hillary Rodham Clinton becomes Barack Obama’s secretary of state, she could wipe away her lingering $7.6 million presidential campaign debt.

As the nation’s top diplomat, she would be barred by tradition and ethics rules from partisan political …

The man who would have been president returned to his old job in the Senate on Tuesday.

Hardly anyone noticed.

As reporters flocked to 85-year-old convicted felon Ted Stevens on one side of the chamber and …

Breaking with other environmental groups, Friends of the Earth criticized the climate agenda unveiled by Barack Obama Tuesday, calling it “welcomed” but not aggressive enough.

The majority of environmental groups, though, offered rousting praise for the president-elect’s plan, …

Less than a week after Newt Gingrich counted himself out of the race for chairman of the Republican National Committee, the former House speaker was pulled back into the contest as one contender claimed Gingrich was backing his candidacy. …

Eric Holder, a deputy attorney general in the Clinton administration and longtime ally to Barack Obama, is under “strong consideration” to be Obama’s attorney general, a Democratic official said Tuesday.

Newsweek reported Tuesday that Obama had decided to …

The progressive netroots is expressing outrage Tuesday over the 42-12 Democratic Senate caucus vote allowing Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) to remain chairman of the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee.

“I think we’ve now learned that Joe Lieberman …

Before tackling any of their party’s broad, long-term legislative priorities, President-elect Obama and Democratic leaders in Congress should focus on rebuilding Americans’ basic trust in government, according to a new report by the centrist Democratic group Third Way. …