The Kennedys News Archives

Watching the health care reform debate from the perspective of an interested citizen in Maine, I cannot help but mourn the absence of Ted Kennedy.

Only once in his nearly half-century as a United States senator did Ted Kennedy face a serious re-election challenge.

A month after taking office, Massachusetts Senator Paul G. Kirk Jr. delivered his first major floor speech yesterday, calling for bipartisan unity on health care legislation - a signature issue of the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy, the legendary lawmaker he replaced.

Yavapai County medical examiner Philip Keen shows defense attorney John Sears an autopsy photo in Yavapai County Superior Court Tuesday during an evidentiary hearing in the Carol Kennedy murder trial.

President Obama's to-do list today includes two ceremonies that add to the legacy of the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy.

The four Democrats running to succeed the late U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., are each playing to his liberal base, analysts say.

Source: Published: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Bishop Thomas J. Tobin of Providence and Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan of New York strongly criticized remarks by Rep.

AG Martha Coakley , the frontrunner to succeed the late Sen. Ted Kennedy , emerged last p.m. from the campaign's first televised debate not only unscathed, but curiously unchallenged by her three rivals.

Confusion over whether and how government health-care reform will or should deal with abortion has resulted in an equally confusing war of words between Rep.

Democratic lawmakers mourning Senator Edward Kennedy vowed yesterday to honour his memory by passing U. S. President Barack Obama's embattled health-care overhaul this year.

Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy has attacked the Catholic Church's opposition to abortion-related aspects of legislation to overhaul the nation's medical system, calling the church's position a "red herring'' that fans "the flames of dissent and discord.'' Kennedy's comment, made in a videotaped interview with Cybercast News Service , drew a sharp retort ...

Room 317 in the Russell Senate Office Building -- the office Ted Kennedy occupied longer than any other in his 47-year Senate career a ' will close Friday, two months after the Massachusetts Democrat died at the age of 77.

CAMPAIGNING broadcaster and author Sir Ludovic Kennedy has died, aged 89. His death at a Wiltshire nursing home on Sunday came after he contracted pneumonia following a fall last year.

He's not president, a Cabinet member or ambassador, but Sen. John Kerry has ascended to the unofficial role of President Barack Obama's global adviser on key issues that could reshape the nation's image around the world.

EDWARD KENNEDY'S legislative talent and family name weren't the only reasons why he was a national leader.

Kennedy's order, which reversed an order [text, PDF] issued last week by the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [official website], prohibits the publication of signers' names until the Court orders otherwise.

Distinguished broadcaster, author and campaigner Sir Ludovic Kennedy has died. Sir Ludovic, 89, is thought to have been in a frail condition for some time after developing pneumonia following a fall last year.

Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy has temporarily blocked Washington state officials from releasing the names of people who signed a ballot measure on gay rights.Kennedy's ruling Monday temporarily blocks a federal appeals court ruling last week that ordered the release of the names.

Subpoenaed cell phone records. Stolen keys. That's just some of the evidence Collier County sheriff's investigators say they had against Lonnie Kennedy, the former Naples police detective they accused of teaming with his confidential informant, Loyal Daily, to rob drug dealers, steal their drugs and burglarize their homes.

The Washington Post'sA Reliable Source gossipA column A reportedA on Friday that ABC anchor Charles Gibson was the emcee for a high-dollar fundraiser for the latest Boston building to honor the Kennedys, the so-called "royal family" of American politics: the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate.

It probably doesn't reflect glowingly on American expat Kennedy's native country that this watershed novel is the first to be published in the U.S. after a decade of acclaim abroad.

A house fire on Saturday night in Sherman left a family without a home. Korinia Kennedy said her and family went out on Saturday night to get a movie and before they came back, she got a call from police saying their house was fire.

At what cost has the U.S. acted as if the Israel lobby is not a foreign agent? David Ben-Gurion, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr., and Congressman John Kennedy.

Out of the spotlight since his second failed bid for a U.S. Senate seat, Louisiana Treasurer John Kennedy has seized an opportunity to regain center stage, and he's upstaging Gov.

Well, it didn't take long for the bloom to fall off the rose. After that emotional and beautiful vigil following Sen.

Les Leland was the grand jury foreman in the Chappaquiddick investigation. Les Leland says it's just a coincidence that his book about Chappaquiddick is coming out so soon after Senator Ted Kennedy 's death.

'If I am elected, this is going to be my job.' October 07, 2009 5:15 PM By Stephanie Snyder Special to AFN With the approaching Nov.

State Treasurer John Kennedy presents a convincing argument for how Louisiana could fairly easily avoid a fiscal meltdown in the very near future.

President Barack Obama told a fundraising lunch on Wednesday that he is committed to helping keep Democrats in governors' offices across the country and move their states forward, starting with changes to the health care system.

Crowds flocked Thursday to pay tearful last respects to late Democratic lion Edward Kennedy as his body lay in the oceanside library he built to honour his slain brother.

A lawsuit has been filed against Full Tilt Poker, claiming that they use bots to keep games running longer and to employ more luck than skill.

The Jefferson County Sheriff's Department is continuing its investigation of a late Friday double shooting which has been ruled as a murder/suicide. Upon arriving at the scene at around 10 p.m., two bodies were discovered lying in the driveway of a home on county Road 7, according to Jefferson County Sheriff Fred Abdalla.

Memories of the Kennedys in Palm Beach are vivid: trips to shops, hamburger stands, soda joints - places that tourists still visit solely to capture a little of that Kennedy mystique.

Gerard Kennedy is a man of good intentions but a new law he has proposed should be judged on its potential for unintended consequences, rather than its intent.

Paul G. Kirk Jr. stepped decisively into his four-month stint as Massachusetts' junior senator yesterday, intent on putting the controversy of his appointment behind him and taking on a new challenge: to continue the work of the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy.

The number of gay and bisexual characters on prime-time network TV is up slightly this season to 18 out of a total of 600 roles, according to the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.