Less than two months after President Donald Trump pardoned Rod Blagojevich ... including trying to sell President Barack Obama’s vacated Senate seat. Trump commuted his 14-year sentence in ...

Dick Durbin, 80, served five terms in the Senate, and his announcement was met with celebration among some in the Republican ...

If U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet wants to show voters that he truly cares about Colorado, he should resign now to run for governor ...

Rod Blagojevich has a new job: representing the interests of an ultranationalist politician known as the “Bosnian Bear" who has ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The former Illinois ...

Chicago Democrat Emil Jones III, a sitting state senator, will face a federal jury that could end his political career and make him a convicted felon.

Jones, 46, whose father, Emil Jones Jr., led the state Senate for years before orchestrating having his son replace him, goes on trial Monday on bribery charges alleging he agreed to help a red-light ...

Chicago Democrat Emil Jones III was made a state senator in 2008 in a classic Illinois way, on a path paved by his powerful father that left little to chance. Now, Jones is rolling the dice with a ...

The elder Jones served as Senate president from 2003 to 2009, a period where he became known as the political “godfather” to a young Democratic state legislator named Barack Obama. He also was ...

Rod Blagojevich received a presidential pardon. Blagojevich had served eight years in prison after he was convicted of attempting to sell the Senate seat vacated by Barack Obama, after the first ...