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Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) has become such a perpetual figure in American politics that it's easy to think of him as more memorial than man, one of the capital's landmarks -- the Mall, the Smithsonian, the White House and Teddy Kennedy in the Senate. It is difficult to tell his life story without almost immediately running into a similar problem.

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, an icon of Democratic Party politics, plans to endorse Sen. Barack Obama today. Kennedy and his niece Caroline Kennedy are to appear with Obama at American University in Washington, according to the candidate's campaign schedule. Caroline Kennedy is the daughter of President Kennedy. Reports that Sen.

Declaring that "it is time for a new generation of leadership" in America, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy endorsed Sen. Barack Obama for president Monday, wrapping the young politician in the mantle of America's best-known political dynasty. He was joined in a cavernous gymnasium at American University here by his niece Caroline and his son, Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy of Rhode Island, both of whom also threw their support behind the youthful Illinois senator.

Fresh from his hospitalization for surgery to remove a malignant brain tumor, Democratic Sen. Edward M. Kennedy announced it was "good to be home" in Cape Cod on Monday and headed out for a sail. Kennedy left Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C., in the morning and arrived at his family's compound in Hyannis Port, Mass., just before noon. Within hours, he went sailing with his wife, Victoria Reggie Kennedy.

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, midway through six weeks of radiation and chemotherapy treatments for brain cancer, is doing well aside from some fatigue, his wife has told loved ones. In an e-mail to family and friends sent Wednesday, Victoria Reggie Kennedy said he had been exercising each morning before heading to Boston for treatment at Massachusetts General Hospital. By afternoon, he was back at his family's compound in Hyannis Port. The e-mail was obtained Monday from a Kennedy friend.

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y), considered a prominent contender to become secretary of State in the Obama administration, was offered an alternative Tuesday -- to be a senior member of the Senate team aiming to overhaul the nation's healthcare system. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), who has announced plans to craft sweeping healthcare legislation next year, asked the former presidential contender to head a working group focused on insurance coverage.

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) is being a homer for the Bay State. The New England politico wants the premiere of "The Simpsons Movie" in Springfield, Mass., as opposed to the namesake cities in Indiana, Missouri, Ohio and 10 other states. In the Fox network cartoon series, the Simpsons live in a place called Springfield, but exactly where that town is has always been purposefully vague. But not to Kennedy: "I know the answer -- it's undoubtedly Springfield, MA!"

washington -- Edward M. Kennedy, the senior Democratic senator from Massachusetts, underwent surgery Friday to clear a partially blocked artery in his neck. Kennedy, 75, had the hourlong procedure at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital, where surgeons removed a blockage from his left carotid artery, which supplies blood to the head and neck. Kennedy's doctors called the operation "routine" and "uneventful."

The memoirs of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the youngest and last surviving brother of the country's most famous political siblings and for decades an eminent liberal statesman and legislator, have been acquired by an imprint of the Hachette Book Group USA. Financial terms were not disclosed, but a publishing official with knowledge of the negotiations said the agreement was comparable to the $8 million that Sen.

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), who criticized Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr.'s past membership in a controversial Princeton University alumni club, severed his ties with a former Harvard college social club that bans women members. "He has decided to be taken off their rolls, believing that it is a mistake to continue to be affiliated," Kennedy spokeswoman Melissa Wagoner said in a statement.