Illinois Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton is projected to win the heated and crowded Democratic primary race for the U.S. Senate seat that Dick Durbin has held for nearly 30 years, according to CBS News analysis.

The primary ballot is set for Iowa's first open U.S. Senate seat in a dozen years. Meet the candidates running to replace Joni Ernst.

By Nate Raymond March 17 (Reuters) - A conservative legal activist won U.S. Senate approval Tuesday to become a federal judge in Louisiana, despite objections by Democrats and a former Fox News host over testimony she gave five years ago opposing a ban on mandatory arbitration for workplace sexual assault or harassment claims.

But the big picture here is that the US Senate has put out one of its most important pieces of spaceflight legislation in decades: Senators have instructed Isaacman to go fly the Artemis program with all due speed, to do so as he deems best, and to focus on building a Moon base rather than a space station in lunar orbit.

Indiana senators led the tribute to the late Notre Dame football coach.

At least 73 of the 100 sitting U.S. senators have a median net worth of more than a million dollars, according to a NOTUS analysis of financial disclosures.

In Michigan's high-stakes US Senate race, candidates are clashing over immigration enforcement, health care, dark money and more.

This story was originally published by Bridge Michigan, a nonprofit and nonpartisan news organization. Visit the newsroom online: bridgemi.com. LANSING — Three leading Democrats attempting to succeed 67-year-old US Sen.

By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON, March 17 (Reuters) - Polls closed on Tuesday in Illinois' Democratic primary election that is seen testing progressives' power and giving voters an opportunity to elect a new generation of lawmakers,