Hatch announces he'll retire from Senate

SALT LAKE CITY — Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, announced Tuesday he is retiring at the end of this term, ending months of speculation this year about whether he would run again.
"I'm a fighter," Hatch said in a video announcement posted on Twitter shortly before noon. But the seven-term senator said a good fighter also knows when to hang up his gloves and that means he won't seek re-election.
Hatch was first elected to the Senate in 1976, after convincing voters the three-term Democratic incum