Attorney General Martha Coakley may be the front-runner in the race to fill the late Edward Kennedy's U.S. Senate seat, but she is crafting a campaign largely free of the Kennedy mystique.
A former office manager for the late Sen. Edward Kennedy has been charged with conspiring to defraud the Senate of more than $75,000 in pay and bonuses.
The e-book for Sen. Edward Kennedy's "True Compass" is coming out on Christmas Day, more than three months after the hardcover release. But the paperback, thanks in part to an Oprah-inspired surge in sales, will not appear until 2011.
Vicki Kennedy says her late husband never saw a completed copy of his memoir, but Sen. Edward M. Kennedy knew it by heart because "we had read the entire book aloud to each other."
Republican Scott Brown is hoping to ride a tide of voter anger at Wall Street bailouts and soaring national debt as he seeks to topple Democrat Martha Coakley in the race to fill the U.S. Senate seat held by the late Edward Kennedy.
Massachusetts Democratic Senate hopeful Stephen Pagliuca has spent $5.4 million of his own money in his bid for the seat once held by the late Edward Kennedy.
The widow of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy told Oprah Winfrey in an interview broadcast Wednesday that even as her husband knew he was dying of brain cancer he had been "in training" to make sure he had enough strength to attend President Barack Obama's inauguration.
The four Democratic candidates vying for the late Edward Kennedy's Senate seat have finally found something they can disagree on: casino gambling.
Former Democratic Party chairman Paul G. Kirk Jr. stepped in Friday as the temporary replacement in the Senate for his longtime friend, the late Edward Kennedy.
A Massachusetts judge on Friday rejected a Republican request to delay the swearing in of Edward Kennedy's temporary replacement in the Senate.
The man who was appointed to serve as the interim replacement for the late Sen. Edward Kennedy has also been named executor of his will, it was revealed Thursday.
President Barack Obama says the Democrat selected to temporarily replace the late Sen. Edward Kennedy is a "distinguished leader" and an excellent choice to carry on Kennedy's work.
If Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick wants the power to quickly name a temporary replacement for the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, it's going to be up to him to do it.
Candidates in the special election to fill the seat left vacant by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's death are scrambling to collect the cash, signatures and backing needed to mount a winning campaign in less than four months.
Boston Celtics co-owner Stephen Pagliuca said Thursday he wants to jump from the business world to the political arena because he has the background to help solve the nation's economic problems and lend expertise to the health care debate that was the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's passion.
Massachusetts could have a new U.S. senator by the end of the week.
Republican state Sen. Scott Brown says he's running for the late Edward Kennedy's Senate seat in Massachusetts.
A son of Sen. Edward Kennedy says he and his siblings grew up anxious about their father's safety and worried he'd meet the same fate as his slain brothers.
Sen. Edward Kennedy expressed confidence that a health care overhaul would pass this year in a letter delivered posthumously to President Barack Obama.
Former Bush White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card said Friday he will not seek the Senate seat left vacant last month by the death of Edward Kennedy.
Sen. Christopher Dodd has decided against succeeding his friend Edward Kennedy as chairman of the Senate panel focused on overhauling the nation's health care system, a Senate aide confirmed Tuesday.
The governor should be allowed to name an interim replacement to the late Edward Kennedy's vacant Senate seat because it would help ensure health care overhaul legislation gets passed, Democrats told a packed Statehouse public hearing Wednesday.
The son of the late Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy is thanking his Rhode Island constituents for their support and sympathy after his father's death.
Rep. Michael Capuano of Massachusetts says he's taken out nomination papers and will announce next week whether he'll join the race to succeed Edward Kennedy in the U.S. Senate.
Sen. John Kerry said Wednesday he would take up one of Sen. Edward Kennedy's key political fights, pledging to the thousands who attended his town hall meeting to push for the health care overhaul championed by his longtime Democratic colleague.
I don't know how many people get to say that... or when i will ever get the chance to meet even ONE other president, but the last two days have been amazing for someone like me who LOVES politics and who is such a big fan of Barack Obama!
Governor Deval Patrick basked in the Kennedy family aura yesterday as he announced Paul G. Kirk Jr. as interim senator to applause before a raft of television cameras at the State House.
The slight, bespectacled man has spent much of his life next to the spotlight, the aide standing in the background as a senator gripped the podium. But today, it was Paul G. Kirk Jr.
Stephen Pagliuca, managing director at Bain Capital Partners LP and co-owner of the Boston Celtics, announced his candidacy today as a Democrat for the U.S. Senate seat held by the late Edward Kennedy.
President Barack Obama, clearly moved and upset, gave a stirring eulogy at Senator Edward Kennedy's funeral. He gave some fascinating insights into the life of the Senator, especially regarding his sense of humour, his genuine care for others and his persuasive talent.
The American political establishment's love affair with illness-profit, treating health care as a commodity and health care access as a class-tiered privilege would be a rather vulgar anecdote, if it were not for the collateral damage.
This is a fine, year-old column by Sarah Vowell on what it means to be a Democrat, and what Ted Kennedy meant to the party and the country:
excerpt: ""The most moving part of the services for the late Sen. Edward Kennedy for me was when his son, Ted Kennedy, Jr., spoke.
President Barack Obama led the nation Saturday in paying final tribute to Edward M. Kennedy, praising him as the "greatest legislator of our time."
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21,000 mourners filed past Senator Kennedy's casket in Boston
I find it interesting that so little is being said good or bad of the passing of a man who had such an influence on our lives and times while Michael Jackson is still headlines weeks later.
From first Irish-Catholic president to one of the nation's longest - serving senators to
This is an email I received from our President today: Rusty -- Michelle and I were heartbroken to learn this morning of the death of our dear friend, Senator Ted Kennedy.
I'm not sure I can recall such vitriol within hours of the death of a notable politician as I've seen in the past few hours, regarding Senator Edward Kennedy's death and legacy. Chappaquiddick. Mary Jo Kopechne. Forty years ago.
Though the Left now mourns the loss of the Senate's Liberal Lion, politics must go on. Ted Kennedy died as he lived -- a political prizefighter and liberal champion to the end.
The Kennedy Clan may have been staunch Catholics but it never stopped them giving unstinting support to Israel. Read the words of the US Orthodox Jewish website, Vos Iz Neias (Yiddish- What's News):
Edward M. Kennedy's death marks the end not just of a political dynasty, but of America's Camelot myth. But though the senator never reached his Holy Grail - universal health care - he still attained personal redemption and respect.
It's the present law in Massachusetts, that the successor to Senator Edward M. Kennedy must be elected within 160 days, unless the law is changed.
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's affability and capability to span the partisan divide prompted an outpouring of condolences from those in the GOP as well as the Democratic Party following his death Tuesday.
US Senator Edward Kennedy, a towering figure in the Democratic Party who took the helm of one of America's most fabled political families after two older brothers were assassinated, has died at age 77, his family said today.
Reactions From The Family, President George H.W. Bush, Nancy Pelosi, Nancy Reagan, Orrin Hatch
A cancer-stricken Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has written a poignant letter to Massachusetts leaders asking that they change state law to allow a speedy replacement of him in Congress.