Former President Obama lavished praise on Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) on Wednesday, after the No. 2 Senate Democrat announced he will not seek reelection next year. Obama, in a post online ...

And in the Senate, the race to replace Durbin will set off a leadership scramble that won’t be formalized until after next year’s midterms and through a secret ballot of Democratic senators.

But in a state that has grown more solidly Democratic, the GOP has captured a Senate seat just twice for six-year terms since 1984.Durbin, who’s 80, was first elected to the U.S. House in 1982 ...

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the No. 2 Senate Democrat, announced Wednesday he will not seek reelection, capping off a decades-long Senate career. “The decision of whether to run for reelection ...

The South Carolina company behind a proposed mountain inn that faces community backlash plans to establish a fund to benefit ...

The senator served as the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations chairman when he was indicted.