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Charles H. Percy, a brilliant businessman who represented Illinois for nearly 20 years in the U.S. Senate, once headed the chamber's powerful Foreign Relations Committee, and harbored unrealized ambitions to run for the presidency, died early Saturday.

Authorities linked Ryan Cleary, 19, to the group that has attacked the Web sites of the U.S. Senate, the Central Intelligence Agency, PBS and Sony.

A group of hackers has gained access to the websites of the U.S. Senate and video game company Bethesda Softworks, the latest in a series of cyberattacks plaguing a broad range of online victims.

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It's something that's been discussed before: am Internet "kill switch" to give the President power to reduce the impact of a cyber-attack.

While it passed a committee on Dec. 15, 2010, the full Senate did not act on the measure. Despite what may appear to be bad timing, based on the actions of Egypt, it appears the bill is set to return.

The commercial casino industry's top trade group says it supports efforts by U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to fully legalize Internet poker.

On November 18, 2010, Chief Counsel for Advocacy Winslow Sargeant, Ph.D., testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship hearing on “Assessing the Regulatory and Administrative Burdens on America’s Small Businesses.”

A U.S. Senate filibuster this summer caused a backlog of thousands of applications for unemployment benefits and extreme delays at a state call center, according to Kansas Department of Labor Secretary Jim Garner.

Remember Missouri's U.S. Senate candidate Glenn Miller ? A former KKK leader, Miller made a big splash this spring when he began airing his anti-Semitic campaign ads on radio stations across western Missouri.

A white separatist whose candidacy for the U.S. Senate is being challenged by Missouri's attorney general has been taking steps to prove that he is a legitimate candidate.