BOSTON (AP) — Harvard Law professor and consumer advocate Elizabeth Warren officially launched her Democratic campaign for U.S. Senate on Wednesday by greeting commuters at a rail station in Boston before embarking on a tour of the state. (more)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Kennedys have held congressional seats, the presidency and the public’s imagination for more than 60 years. That era ends when Patrick Kennedy of Rhode Island vacates his U.S. House seat next month, leaving a city council post in California as Camelot’s sole remaining political holding. (more)
HONOLULU (AP) — President Barack Obama has Hawaiian vacation plans for plenty of private time with his family, walks on the beach, rounds of golf and leisure reading. (more)
At a time when tensions between the Polisario and Morocco in their fight over Western Sahara, Africa’s last colony, are at the highest point since the 1991 ceasefire, WikiLeaks documents have enhanced the cause of the Polisario by revealing that the supporters of the Polisario are the good guys in this fight. (more)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Barack Obama’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year got off to a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad start. (more)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Whether it was advice about politics, clothes or boys, Elizabeth Edwards was always ready dispense her wisdom. (more)
Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele is taking steps to run for another two-year term and outlined his plan in a conference call last week to a handful of state GOP officials, three Republicans familiar with call tell CNN. (more)
Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) is not stumping for Republican candidates in his home state even though several of them have a chance to win Nov. 2. (more)
CLEVELAND (AP) — Former President Jimmy Carter was spending a second night in an Ohio hospital bed as a team of doctors monitored his recovery from a viral infection they say likely gave him stomach problems. (more)
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Linda McMahon, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Connecticut, is defending an online ad that uses footage of John F. Kennedy talking about the importance of tax cuts. (more)
Perception is often reality in politics. Just ask George H.W. Bush. Twenty-three years ago this October, when he was beginning his campaign to succeed Ronald Reagan as President, Newsweek ran a cover story on him bearing this headline: “Fighting the Wimp Factor.” (more)
HONOLULU (AP) — Republicans cited Rep.-elect Charles Djou’s victory for a seat long out of their reach as evidence of steadily increasing election-year strength, but Democrats said Sunday the winner’s 40-percent vote share portends a short stay in Congress for him and predicts nothing about the fall. (more)
LA JOLLA, Calif. – Perhaps it’s fitting that, days before President Obama signed into law his version of health care reform, former Massachusetts governor and 2008 presidential candidate Mitt Romney retook the lead in the early 2012 White House polls. (more)
Few Americans can imagine retiring at age 42, let alone receive a pension for doing so. But that’s what Democrat Patrick Kennedy of Rhode Island can look forward to when he completes his final term in the House of Representatives next January. (more)
Within 48 hours last week, two quick victories for individual freedom occurred. (more)
WRENTHAM, Mass. (AP) — Republican Scott Brown says if he wins the Massachusetts Senate special election, he hopes to be sworn in swiftly. (more)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats prepared for the worst and hoped for the best as the fate of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul hung on the outcome of a special Massachusetts election that was too close to call. (more)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Republican Chris Christie has been sworn in as New Jersey’s 55th governor. (more)
BOSTON (AP) — Voters thronged to the polls in Massachusetts Tuesday in a special election Republicans hope will be a national game-changer, slowing down President Barack Obama’s agenda and loosening the Democratic grip on the U.S. Senate. (more)
