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U.S. Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) speaks to reporters as she arrives for the weekly Republican Party caucus luncheon at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., February 26, 2019. Photo by Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

Outside money flows into race for Susan Collins’ Senate seat

By David Sharp, Brian Slodysko, Associated Press

File photo of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., by James Lawler Duggan/Reuters

McConnell undergoes surgery to repair shoulder fracture

The sixth-term senator suffered a shoulder fracture in a fall earlier this month when he tripped on his outdoor patio at his Louisville home.

By Associated Press

Dayton Mayor Nannette Whaley speaks during a vigil at the scene of a mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio, U.S. August 4, 2019. Photo by REUTERS/Bryan Woolston

More than 200 mayors urge Senate to return to Washington for gun bill vote

The mayors urged the Senate to vote on two House-passed bills expanding background checks for gun sales that passed that chamber earlier this year.

By Matthew Daly, Lisa Mascaro, Associated Press

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and other Senate Republicans hold a news conference to discuss Senate policy at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, July 30, 2019. Photo by Mary F. Calvert/Reuters

Republicans face tough vote on budget bill Trump supports

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is confident the budget deal will pass despite the misgivings of many Republicans.

By Andrew Taylor, Associated Press

Democratic congressional candidate Amy McGrath thanks all her supporters after appearing at her election night party in Richmond, Kentucky, on November 6, 2018. Photo by John Sommers II/Reuters

Amy McGrath is running for Mitch McConnell’s Senate seat

McGrath is a Marine combat aviator who narrowly lost a House race to an incumbent Republican in Kentucky last year.

By Michael Tackett, Associated Press

Roy Moore runs for Senate despite discouragement from GOP

By Kim Chandler, Alan Fram, Associated Press

Republican Roy Moore is facing a wall of GOP opposition that includes President Donald Trump as he launches another U.S. Senate bid.

Former US Sen. Richard Lugar, foreign policy expert, dies

By Tom Davies, Associated Press

Former Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar, a Republican foreign policy sage known for leading efforts to help the former Soviet states dismantle and secure much of their nuclear arsenal, but whose reputation for working with Democrats cost him his final campaign,…

WATCH: Senate votes to block Trump’s emergency declaration

By Alan Fram, Lisa Mascaro, Catherine Lucey, Associated Press

Several Republicans have said they will join Democrats in voting to block the president's emergency declaration that would steer $3.6 billion to building border barriers.