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On the surface, the Indiana Tea Party groups’ efforts to keep Republican Richard Lugar from a seventh term appear to be a David vs. Goliath scenario. First elected to the Senate in 1976, Lugar garnered 86 percent of the vote in 2006 to keep his seat for a sixth term. Come 2012, he is expected to have a challenger. Hoosiers for a Conservative Senate 2012 is galvanizing the support of Tea Party groups around the state to find that challenger. State Treasurer Richard Mourdock and State Sen. Mike Delph is already considering a run for the seat. On Jan.. 22...

WASHINGTON (AFP) – The time is right for reevaluating US sanctions on Cuba, the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee says in a new report, calling for allowing Cuba to buy US goods on credit, US media reported Sunday. Republican Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana's opinions are attached to a report due to be released Monday that could add fuel to momentum toward change in almost five decades of US policy seeking to isolate Cuba, the Americas' only communist country. The United States and Cuba do not have full diplomatic relations. And Washington has had a full economic...