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- AP IMPACT: Lobbyists, health care heavyweights visited White House early and often for revamp
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Vicki Kennedy describes husband's cancer battle
- 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 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.
Capuano combines street smarts, Ivy League degree
- Rep. Michael Capuano boasts street smarts and blue-collar roots - and an Ivy League pedigree.
Winfrey to interview widow of Ted Kennedy
- Another interview coup for Oprah Winfrey: Vicki Kennedy, wife of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy. In her first interview since her husband's death, Vicki Kennedy will appear on Winfrey's television talk show Wednesday, along with her stepson, Ted Kennedy Jr., and her two children from a previous marriage, Caroline and Curran.
- Another interview coup for Oprah Winfrey: Vicki Kennedy, wife of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy. In her first interview since her husband's death, Vicki Kennedy will appear on Winfrey's television talk show Wednesday, along with her stepson, Ted Kennedy Jr., and her two children from a previous marriage, Caroline and Curran.
Sizing up the Kennedy dynasty's next generation
- Sen. Edward M. Kennedy will be a tough act to follow, even for the Kennedys. His death, coupled with the decision by family members not to seek the seat he held for nearly five decades, has prompted predictions that the family's long-running political dynasty is over.
- Sen. Edward M. Kennedy will be a tough act to follow, even for the Kennedys. His death, coupled with the decision by family members not to seek the seat he held for nearly five decades, has prompted predictions that the family's long-running political dynasty is over.
Pagliuca: Kennedy would be with me on health care
- Democrat Stephen Pagliuca said Thursday the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy would side with him and not political rivals Martha Coakley and Michael Capuano in the nation's health care debate.
Pagliuca: Kennedy aired 'inaccurate' ads in 1994
- Stephen Pagliuca, running as a liberal Democrat to succeed the late Edward M. Kennedy in the Senate, said Monday that Kennedy aired "inaccurate" ads in 1994 as his fellow Democrat fended off a re-election challenge from Pagliuca's boss at Bain Capital, Republican Mitt Romney.
Is Fenty our Obama?
- When Adrian Fenty endorsed little-known Barack Obama for president last summer, a handful of reporters and 50 or so supporters came more as courtesy to the Washington mayor than to meet the first-term Illinois senator.
Kennedy loudly cheered by peers on return to Senate
- Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., made a surprise return to the Senate on Wednesday to a thunderous standing ovation in the chamber as he helped Democrats pass a long-stalled Medicare bill.
- Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., made a surprise return to the Senate on Wednesday to a thunderous standing ovation in the chamber as he helped Democrats pass a long-stalled Medicare bill.
Mourning 'the explainer in chief'
- The nation’s leaders -- and the journalists who cover them -- reacted with shock and sadness to the death of NBC's Tim Russert on Friday.
Jules Witcover: RFK 40 years later
- The 40th anniversary of the death of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy has come at a time many Americans see in the nomination of Sen. Barack Obama a revival of RFK’s charismatic call to service as a presidential candidate in 1968.
Kennedy surgery ‘successful’ — chemo, radiation up next
- Sen. Edward Kennedy faces chemotherapy and radiation treatment after undergoing a “successful” three-hour surgery Monday aimed at shrinking the size of a malignant brain tumor.
- Sen. Edward Kennedy faces chemotherapy and radiation treatment after undergoing a “successful” three-hour surgery Monday aimed at shrinking the size of a malignant brain tumor.
Senator’s operation not intended to cure malignant brain tumor
- The brain surgery Sen. Edward Kennedy underwent Monday was not intended to cure the senator’s malignant brain tumor, area doctors said.
