Senator Trent Lott (R-Mississippi) shocked Capitol Hill with an announcement on November 26 that he will step down by the end of the session. The minority whip, and former majority leader, is one of ...

CRAWFORD, Texas (CNN) -- As a Florida circuit court heard arguments Saturday over 14,000 disputed U.S. presidential election ballots, Republican candidate George W. Bush met with two congressional ...

The number-two Republican in the Senate announced his early resignation today. Minority Leader Trent Lott will leave before the end of the year. Is it all about becoming a lobbyist? Is this about ...

The Lott family home in Pascagoula, Mississippi, was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Lott was originally a member of the Democratic Party but switched on the eve of his first campaign in 1972.

Midterm elections are over and Congress is out of session, but national politics keeps changing daily. Democratic Congressman and civil rights veteran John Lewis says Trent Lott should be given ...

Whether Trent Lott stays or goes, Democrats and civil rights groups see his apparent nostalgia for a segregated past as a golden opportunity to revive a hate crimes bill, push a minimum wage increase ...

My husband, for unfathomable reasons of his own, watches the evening news and he’s hated Trent Lott for years. I, having stopped watching the news somewhere mid-O.J., was barely aware of the uniquely ...

It's a good thing she apologized, because Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) was fixin' to give Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) a piece of his mind. Lott was on the cusp of issuing a serious condemnation ...

Maybe Trent Lott will survive the firestorm he ignited last week with remarks that were at the very least careless and, at worst, revealing. But with his ill-considered praise for Strom Thurmond's ...