N.Y. State Senate Race Drags on in Court
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When a state Senate race just north of New York City wound up too close to call, each side accused the other of mischief &#151; like intimidating old ladies at the polls or importing voters from the Bronx &#151; and went to court. Three months later, it's still there.
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U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, dogged by criticism about being appointed to her job by her governor father, was leading the state's Republican primary on Tuesday, her first statewide election.
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The race to lead the Senate Republican campaign committee and step into senior party circles intensified Wednesday, with both sides claiming more than half of the votes needed to win the post.
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Vote effectively delays debate on whether to immunize telephone companies from lawsuits. But it's unclear whether the Senate will follow suit, and a veto threat is looming.
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Six years after Democrats backed him for vice president, Sen. Joe Lieberman struggled to overcome a tough challenge in Tuesday's primary and escape retribution from his own party for supporting the Iraq war.
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Eliot Spitzer, the iron-jawed state attorney general who rescued himself from political oblivion to take on the icons of Wall Street, is in a race for the New York governor's mansion that's turned into a cakewalk.
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Whether Democrats regain control of the Senate could hinge on whether Sen. Jon Corzine, D-N.J., ignores or embraces state-party calls for him to give up his seat and seek the job being vacated by embattled Gov. James McGreevey.
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Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, who is running for New York governor, has found himself on a collision course with Sheldon Silver, the State Assembly speaker.
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The hotly contested race to fill  Florida's open U.S. Senate seat has been dominated by someone  who is not running, an imprisoned former professor awaiting  trial on charges of raising funds for Palestinian suicide  bombers.
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Mayor Michael Bloombergâs last-minute lobbying for his ambitious toll plan to clear Manhattan traffic congestion failed to get necessary legislative approval Monday.
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As his critics see it, Hans A. von Spakovsky used every opportunity he had over four years in the Justice Department to make it difficult for voters -- poor, minority and Democratic -- to go to the polls. During his tenure, more than half of the career lawyers in the voting section left in protest.
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The judge gives the defense a tough time but that doesn't mean he thinks the case against the toilet-tapping senator is a slam-dunk
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Senator John McCain racked up victories in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, but he appears to be locked in a tight battle with Mitt Romney for California.
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The criminal investigation of New York's former police commissioner is on track to crash headlong into the GOP presidential race Â and Rudy Giuliani's final push for the nomination.
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A ruling by New York's highest court on the state's death penalty law has complicated the job of prosecutors and left the fate of inmates uncertain.
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Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani is trailing in the race for the Republican presidential nomination even on his home turf of New York state, a new poll showed on Monday.
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A law that aims to diminish the influence of special interests on city campaigns would make it more difficult for minority candidates to run, according to a lawsuit.