News Coverage: Mark Kirk

Today is Thomson's day.

President Barack Obama has directed the federal government to buy the Thomson Correctional Center in a rural village of Iliinois, according to officials, and the administration is expected to announce today that it will be moving dozens of Guantanamo detainees to the site. Read more...

It has threatened to bring down newspaper empires and make books obsolete. And it has changed politics forever, with e-mail, blogs and viral video.

Yet there’s one thing the Internet hasn’t quite changed: direct mail. Read more...

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Patrick Hughes has seized on rival Mark Kirk's pledge to oppose taxes related to climate change, calling the move a "180-degree turnaround" from Kirk's support for a cap-and-trade bill earlier this summer.

In late June, Kirk was one of eight Republicans who voted for an emissions bill in the U.S. House that would enact the first national limit on greenhouse-gas emissions. The bill is still under consideration in the U.S. Senate. Read more...

Call it anything but slick.

David Hoffman's first television advertisement hit screens yesterday, and the 30-second spot lacks the quirks and attacks that have been part of the political season's most memorable ads thus far. Read more...

She came, she left, and Oprah Winfrey aired her show.

Yet nary a word did Sarah Palin speak of Mark Kirk.

Several weeks ago, the Republican Senate candidate wrote a letter to a Republican operative suggesting that Palin offer a few words of support to his campaign during her visit to Chicago. Read more...