CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Sen. Elizabeth Warren is quickly becoming a top Democratic fundraiser and campaign powerhouse, hitting the road on behalf of candidates in key races the party will need to win to retain control of the U.S. Senate in November. Sinc...

WASHINGTON - Their Senate majority in peril, anxious Democrats have seized the Supreme Court decision that some companies need not provide birth control to women as fresh evidence of the GOP's "war on women" - an argument they hope will energize fem...

As Republican state Sen. Kirk Dillard of Hinsdale steps aside, he says he's doing more looking forward than back. His appointment to lead the Regional Transportation Authority means he's stepping down from his seat in the Illinois Senate by the end ...

Measures that would allow Illinois voters to decide on lawmaker term limits and a new political redistricting process can't appear on November's ballot, a judge ruled Friday, in a decision that could be a setback for Republican gubernatorial candida...

WASHINGTON - Six-term Sen. Thad Cochran's Republican runoff against Mississippi state Sen. Chris McDaniel stands as a test of whether decades of delivering federal largesse trumps conservative demands to slash government spending. The 76-year-old Co...

First it was Chris Christie, humbled by members of his staff who impeded access to a bridge from New Jersey into Manhattan in an apparent act of political retribution. Now it's Scott Walker, who prosecutors in Wisconsin believe acted criminally by c...

RICHMOND, Va. — Dave Brat doesn't like being tagged a Tea Partyer, his dad says. “He doesn't like those labels,” said Paul Brat, who's been watching his son shoot to the top of American political news with his stunning primary defeat Tuesday of Hou...

Political Editor mriopell@dailyherald.com Congressman Peter Roskam of Wheaton plans to try to move up a spot on the House Republican leadership team in the wake of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's stunning primary loss Tuesday, sources close to h...

DuPage County's Democratic organization doesn't want to concede two high-profile countywide positions and several county board seats to the Republicans without a fight. To prevent that from happening, the party has picked candidates to run in the No...