Articles
The Battle Over Gun Control Follows Key Senators Back Home
There's no place like home for Senators Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.), Max Baucus (D-Mont.), and Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) after they voted to kill the bill expanding gun...
Montana Democrat Baucus Rules Out 7th Senate term
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus of Montana announced plans Tuesday to retire at the end of his term after a career of enormous...
Retirements Boost Republican Hopes of Retaking Senate in 2014
A wave of Democratic stalwarts are leaving the Senate next year, but there is no guarantee Republicans can capitalize on the opportunity
Feds Halt Funding for $361M Pipeline
(BOX ELDER, Mont.) — Federal officials temporarily stopped funding a $361 million water pipeline for a Native American reservation in Montana after learning that...
Officials: Democratic Sen. Max Baucus to Retire
(WASHINGTON) — Democratic officials say Sen. Max Baucus of Montana, the chairman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee, plans to retire. The 72-year-old...
Photo Essays
LIFE at West Point, 1936
The first issue of a magazine — especially a magazine that hopes to help define the era in which it lives — the first issue is always a big deal. It sets the...
Hard Days, Wild Nights: Building the Fort Peck Dam, 1936
“If any Charter Subscriber is surprised by what turned out to be the first story in this first issue of LIFE,” the magazine’s editors wrote in the Nov. 23, 1936,...
