Republican conservative Pat Toomey is virtually tied with Sen. Arlen Specter in the long run-up to Pennsylvania's 2010 Senate race, according to a poll released Wednesday. The statewide survey by Connecticut-based Quinnipiac University showed Democrat Specter favored by 45 percent of the respondents and Toomey ...

U.S. Senator Mike DeWine has formally announced that he's a candidate for Ohio attorney general. The 62-year-old Republican said Wednesday that he's running "because Ohio is in crisis" with streets in major cities where people are afraid to walk and gang problems throughout the ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Senator John McCain and his Republican Party publicly apologized to singer Jackson Browne on Tuesday for using his song "Running on Empty" without permission in a campaign advertisement last year. The apology came as Browne and McCain's Republican camp agreed on a settlement to the lawsuit that the singer filed in August, soon after the advertisement ...