Orrin Hatch ends 4-decade Senate run as unique GOP voice

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Orrin Hatch is ending his tenure as the longest-serving Republican senator in history, capping a unique career that positioned him as one of the most prominent conservatives in the United States.
The departure Thursday of the vocal supporter of President Donald Trump ushers in another outsized Utah voice with a different take on the president: Mitt Romney, whose criticism of Trump is already making waves.
Romney has been sworn in to the seat from which Hatch is retiri