BOSTON - Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the 86-year-old sister of President John F. Kennedy, who founded the Special Olympics and championed the rights of the mentally retarded, has been hospitalized.

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.

NEW YORK - Caroline Kennedy turned 50 Tuesday, becoming eligible for membership in AARP. But the nonprofit organization for people 50 and over has bigger plans for Kennedy, daughter of President John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jackie.

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.

BOSTON — Two veteran state politicians won their parties' nominations Tuesday amid light turnout that followed a low-key campaign to fill the high-profile Senate seat held by the late Edward M. Kennedy.

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.

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.

LOS ANGELES - Emilio Estevez's life has been repeatedly touched by Robert Kennedy. So there's symmetry in the fact that Estevez's rebirth in Hollywood should come with the saga "Bobby."

WASHINGTON - Jon Stewart, Bill Maher and Margaret Cho are among an all-star lineup of entertainers who will honor the late comedian George Carlin at this year's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.

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.

NEW YORK - Caroline Kennedy has avoided politics most of her life. She has yet to utter a word publicly about her interest in running for Hillary Rodham Clinton's Senate seat. But in a sign of the enduring power of the Kennedy mystique, even her secondhand statements of interest have spooked the rest of the crowded field.

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.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Saying he has "lived a blessed time," Sen. Edward Kennedy smiled broadly and flashed a thumbs up as he accepted an honorary degree Monday from his alma mater during a rare special convocation at Harvard University.

NEW YORK - If Caroline Kennedy had, you know, only known. Tracking the would-be New York senator's verbal tics has become a political parlor game in the days since she gave her first round of in-depth interviews, even spawning a hip-hop-style mash-up online blending her "you knows" with President-elect Barack Obama's "uhs."

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.

NEW YORK - Caroline Kennedy emerged from weeks of near-silence Friday about her bid for a Senate seat by saying that after a lifetime of closely guarded privacy, she felt compelled to answer the call to service issued by her father a generation ago.

The following is a list of how East Valley participants fared in the P.F. Chang's Rock 'n' Roll Arizona Marathon held Sunday:

NEW YORK — Officials are evacuating a terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City because of a security breach.

Bidders this month will have a chance to buy the ambulance that carried the body of President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963 after it arrived in the Washington area from Dallas.