WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans' plans to defend their Senate majority in 2016 just got a bit more complicated.
GOP Sen. David Vitter's loss in Louisiana's governor's race over the weekend, and his decision to leave theSenate next year rather than seek re-election, creates an open seat that Republicans will have to defend. It's a deep-red Southern state and the GOP will be heavily favored, but Democrats hope they might have a shot, especially with a newly elected Democratic governor, John Bel Edwards, as an unanticipated asset.
WASHINGTON – As states around the country consider legalizing physician-assisted suicide, "death with dignity" looks markedly different for patients under the care of the Little Sisters of the Poor.
In her 27 years with the order that cares for the "elderly poor," Sister Constance Veit, L.S.P. says she has never seen or heard a patient asking for a lethal prescription.
