Sen. Ted Kennedy pitched his fellow Massachusetts senator’s presidential campaign Friday in Phoenix, telling seniors Sen. John Kerry will protect Social Security and promising high school students Kerry will fight for better schools.

Our View: Edward Kennedy began his political career in the shadow of his older siblings, John and Robert. But he rose to surpass both of their concrete contributions and the cultural ripples cast by their assassinations. Frequently called the “lion of the Senate,” Kennedy became a towering liberal icon whose causes and oratory shaped the outlook of the modern Democratic Party much in the same way that Ronald Reagan so heavily influenced the Republican Party.

Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, the daughter of former president John F. Kennedy, will speak Wednesday in support of Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama during a political rally in Phoenix.

HYANNIS PORT, Massachusetts — Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the liberal lion of the Senate and haunted bearer of the Camelot torch after two of his brothers fell to assassins' bullets, has died at his home in Hyannis Port after battling a brain tumor. He was 77.

BOSTON - Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, Democratic titan and patriarch of the country's most enduring political dynasty, told the party faithful Tuesday night that America can only reclaim its greatness by denying President Bush a second term.

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., delivered remarks remembering his Senate comrade Edward Kennedy at a bipartisan memorial service Friday.

Sen. Ted Kennedy pitched his fellow Massachusetts senator’s presidential campaign Friday in Phoenix, telling seniors Sen. John Kerry will protect Social Security and promising high school students Kerry will fight for better schools.

BOSTON - Out of immediate danger, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy remained hospitalized as doctors worked to determine what caused one of the nation's best-known senators to suffer a seizure in his Cape Cod home.

ALBANY, N.Y. - Caroline Kennedy's mysteriously abrupt decision to abandon her Senate bid gave rise to an ugly swirl of accusations Thursday and feverish speculation over whether she jumped or was pushed.

CHICAGO — Their bullpen fried after their previous two starters failed to last three innings, the Arizona Diamondbacks needed a long, effective outing from Ian Kennedy — who hadn't won a major league game in 2½ years.

Arizona Sen. John McCain's office says he is canceling a Friday visit to Flagstaff because of the death of Massachusetts Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.

“Ted Kennedy had the ability to rise above his peers. In Bernard Goldberg’s book

Long-time Arizona State University professor and award-winning correspondent for CBS News, Ben Silver, died Wednesday from complications of Parkinson’s disease. He was 85.

A few things to consider for those who plan to vote for Mitt Romney concerning his service to his country:

Two points about that disclosure by the Government Accountability Office that the government’s terrorist watch list has more than 755,000 names and is growing by 200,000 names a year.

BRICKS to political candidates and their supporters who put up campaign signs in places that block clear views by motorists, especially near intersections and driveways, thus compromising public safety and forcing tax-paid city crews to take them down.

Even for Washington, D.C., the speed with which the two sides swapped positions on failed Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers and the newest nominee, Samuel Alito, was neck-snapping.

We just celebrated 225 years of the ratification of the US Constitution. This written document contains many wise provisions such as: 1. The Bill of Rights’ guarantee of freedom of speech, press and religion. 2. Equality of all men and women before the law. 3. The principle of popular sovereignty, where the PEOPLE are the source of government, not the other way around. 4. The federal system, with a division of powers between the nation as a whole and the states. 5. The Separation of Powers into three separate branches of government.

"Regarding the article on the ferret that attacked the baby: It makes me angry that this poor baby has to live the rest of his life with only a few fingers. If you can't take responsibility for your child then you should not be a parent. I think they should have their child taken away from them because they were not there to protect their 4-month-old baby."

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Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid and other prominent Democrats Ted Kennedy and John Kerry have announced that they will vote against John Roberts’ nomination to be U.S. chief justice when it comes to the full Senate next week.

The Transportation Security Administration has had to abandon one passenger screening program, CAPPS II, because of privacy and accuracy questions; now its successor, Secure Flight, is in trouble for the same reasons.