In a new oral history compiled from interviews recorded in 1964, a year after her husband’s assassination, former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy reveals an opinionated side that differs from her discreet, soft-spoken public image.
One year after he was elected president, Barack Obama is reeling under a flurry of blows at home and abroad. Tuesday's humiliating defeat in the contest for the US Senate seat in Massachusetts, confirms that Obama's honeymoon with the American electorate is truly over. What has gone wrong for him and why?
In this edition: A final goodbye to the lion of the Senate, Edward Kennedy; kidnapped Jaycee Lee Dugard, free after 18 years, reveals the grim details of her ordeal; a report on Ciudad Juarez in Mexico, the world's most dangerous city.
The death of Senator Edward Kennedy has added new urgency to controversial US healthcare reform efforts, bringing into focus various ways in which stalemate-locked Democrats and Republicans might proceed.
The Massachusetts legislature said on Monday that on September 9 it would "conduct a public hearing dealing with the interim filling" of the Senate seat left vacant by the death of Democratic Senator Edward M. Kennedy on August 25.
Democratic Senator Edward M. Kennedy was laid to rest Saturday at Arlington National Cemetery. The senator's grave lies beside his slain brothers on a Virginia hillside overlooking the US capital.
President Barack Obama said Edward M. Kennedy had been a "champion for those who have none; the soul of the Democratic Party" during a eulogy offered at the late Massachusetts senator's funeral Mass.
Former US presidents George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, and many other Washington notables, joined President Barack Obama and the Kennedy family at the funeral Mass of the late Massachusetts senator Edward Kennedy.
The president of the United States will deliver a eulogy at a funeral mass for Senator Edward M. Kennedy in Boston, a day after an emotional "Celebration of Life" memorial service was held at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.
The body of deceased Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy was brought to the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston on Friday. He will be laid to rest Saturday in the city's Our Lady of Perpetual Help Basilica.
