AP – Unlike his brothers, Edward M. Kennedy has grown old in public, his victories, defeats and human contradictions played out across the decades in the public glare.
A report describes clashes between F.B.I. agents and their C.I.A. and military counterparts over tactics.
AP – The House voted Tuesday to let the Justice Department pursue energy antitrust and price fixing cases against members of the OPEC oil cartel, although critics said such attempts would likely be fruitless and could prompt a backlash from oil producers.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Barack Obama will take a major step toward the Democratic presidential nomination when Oregon and Kentucky vote on Tuesday, but rival Hillary Clinton still hopes to spoil the party.
AP – Republican John McCain, speaking to a raucous crowd on Cuba’s independence day, hammered Democrat Barack Obama for saying he would meet with President Raul Castro and called Obama a “tool of organized labor” for opposing a Latin American trade deal.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Rep. Vito Fossella of New York, under pressure from fellow Republicans to step aside after two headline-grabbing scandals, announced on Tuesday he will not seek re-election in November.
AP – They were a sailor, a bookkeeper and a factory worker, men of humble roots and distant times whose kin would run for president in 2008.
AP – A malignant glioma the diagnosis doctors gave Sen. Edward M. Kennedy is the worst kind of brain cancer. Malignant gliomas strike almost 9,000 Americans a year.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. officials said on Tuesday they aim to address economic roadblocks in the Palestinian territories — including actual Israeli roadblocks and security risks — at an investment conference in Bethlehem this week.