Carper has long been a train travel evangelist, much like President Biden. Now the Newark Regional Transportation Center near the University of Delaware will bear his name. Senator Tom Carper and ...

Sen. Thomas R. Carper (D-Del.) said Monday that he will not seek reelection to a fifth term next year, ending a political career that has spanned nearly a half-century and opening a seat in a ...

Corrected 12:12 p.m. | Delaware Democratic Sen. Thomas R. Carper announced Monday he won’t seek a fifth term, creating a rare vacancy in the Blue Hen State. Carper said he’d been discussing whether to ...

The fourth-term senator said he would do everything he could to ensure that Representative Lisa Blunt Rochester, the state’s lone congresswoman and his former intern, won the race to succeed him. By ...

Sen. Tom Carper is being recognized for his years of service to Delaware and the nation with not one, but two buildings named in his honor, both representing programs he championed. The Newark Train ...

The longest moment of stillness in U.S. Sen. Tom Carper’s day may have come around 100 mph. Early light washed the mostly empty dining car. A folder of paperwork, white-corded earbuds and bundled ...

The retirement of Senate Environment and Public Works Chairman Thomas R. Carper, D-Del., will leave a vacancy on the committee where he shepherded laws to address greenhouse gas emissions. Carper, 76, ...

Lisa Blunt Rochester, the handpicked successor to retiring Senator Thomas R. Carper, would be the third Black woman in history to win a Senate seat. By Luke Broadwater The fourth-term senator said he ...

WASHINGTON – It’s been 50 years since U.S. soldiers and prisoners of war left Vietnam in 1973 to return to the United States. But Sen. Thomas R. Carper (D-Del.) said he remembered their arrival all ...

The Senate easily passed a major water infrastructure bill Wednesday that could help address flooding and extreme weather, improve navigation, and restore wetlands. The “Thomas R. Carper Water ...