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An amendment to the Public Health Service Act that will provide support and resources for parents whose children have been pre-natally or post-natally diagnosed with Down syndrome or other genetic conditions ...

Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley, the Roman Catholic archbishop of Boston, this afternoon addressed hundreds of anti-abortion activists who gathered on Boston Common before marching through the Back Bay as part of the ...

One blogger at MyDD has done just that, offering this speculative list of nine possible female candidates for president, four years hence.

Veteran Senator Pat Roberts, in Washington waiting for tonight's vote on the market rescue bill, told listeners of 580's "On the Other Hand" that the bill, as written now, won't get the job done.

As the Roman Catholic Church observes its annual "respect life" Sunday in this heated presidential election season, the unusually pitched competition for Catholic voters is setting off a round of skirmishes ...

The heaviest of Kansas' political heavyweights emerged Thursday to support candidates in the Shawnee County district attorney's race.

The political strategy behind the Senate’s bailout/rescue bill Wednesday was to pile on enough pork to sway reluctant House members who are voting on it today.In fact, some critics complain that it has ...

Rep. Dennis Moore is the only member of the state's congressional delegation to have voted for a financial industry bailout, and it's become an issue as the Democrat seeks re-election in the 3rd District.

The final tally was 74 to 25. Kansas Senators Pat Roberts and Sam Brownback both voted against it.

By Jim Kuhnhenn One talks too much. The other hasn't talked enough. For voters, Thursday's vice-presidential debate promises a transfixing match between the loquacious veteran Sen.

Sen. Pat Roberts will vote against a revised bill to rescue the nation's financial industry.

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One talks too much. The other hasn't talked enough.For voters, Thursday's vice presidential debate promises a transfixing match between the loquacious veteran Sen.

Prominent Democrats don't expect Barack Obama to carry Kansas in the presidential race, but they hope he'll do relatively well in this reliably Republican state, winning 40 percent or more of the vote.

Melgren's confirmation comes just three days after the state's top federal prosecutor breezed through a confirmation hearing and just one day after he was voted out of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Kansas' top federal prosecutor got a warm reception Tuesday from a Senate panel considering him for a seat on the federal bench in Wichita.

Sen. Sam Brownback has introduced legislation that would create a new tool for U.S. diplomacy.Brownback, a Kansas Republican, proposed the bill Tuesday that would create the National Center for Strategic ...

Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke warned Wednesday that the current Wall Street crisis could drag the U.S. economy into a deeper downturn and urged Congress to take action on a proposed bailout package.

Long-stalled legislation making it easier to prosecute those engaged in child pornography cleared the Senate Tuesday.

Kansas' top federal prosecutor will face Senate lawmakers on Tuesday at a hearing on his nomination to the federal bench in Wichita.