RFK's son considering Senate bid from Illinois

A son of the late Robert F. Kennedy is considering a run for the U.S. Senate seat once held by President Barack Obama, the latest member of his family dynasty to take a stab at politics.

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NYC bridge renamed for Robert F. Kennedy

Several generations of Robert F. Kennedy's family gathered Wednesday for a ceremony renaming one of the city's major bridges in honor of the slain senator and U.S. attorney general.

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LA park to stand as tribute to Robert F. Kennedy

With a band of traditional Korean drummers, a Latin dance group and a martial arts exhibition, city officials broke ground Wednesday on a small urban pocket park at the site where Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated 40 years ago.

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RFK's oldest child discusses legacy 40 years later

Kathleen Kennedy Townsend still doesn't like to talk publicly about her memories of the June 6, 1968, death of her father, Robert F. Kennedy.

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African Doctor Wins RFK Award

A doctor who treats victims of torture and sexual violence in Sudan's Darfur region received the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award on Friday.

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US broadcaster Dr Hesham Tillawi: "No doubt in my mind that JFK, RFK efforts to force the American Zionist Council to register as an agent of a foreign country was the reason for the killing of both JFK and RFK."

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With a sign from Dunganstown, Ireland, hanging in his U.S. Capitol office, a reminder of the famine-ravished farm where his ancestors began, Sen.

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From first Irish-Catholic president to one of the nation's longest - serving senators to

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The dream shall never die - Ted Kennedy

What an eventful morning already.....and it is just 5:22 AM as I start to type this. With Ramadan going on right now us Muslims wake up long before sunrise (the time for this morning was around 4:50 AM) and eat in the morning before fasting until sunset.

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"A row has erupted over a book by a bestselling biographer that alleges president John F Kennedy's widow, Jackie, began a four-year affair with her brother-in-law, Robert, within months of her husband's assassination.

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The headline and caption used by ABC were a deliberate attempt to mislead readers. This misinformation is especially dangerous because it is inevitably seized on by sites like Hot Air who will use it to whip their gullible readers into an Obama-Kennedy hate phrenzy.

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Have we lost the rights our parents fought for?

"It is not our fault that the people drawing Social Security did not choose to save money. We should not have to pay for their Social Security." From viewer comments to CNN's Jack Cafferty's blog posts.

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No one is sure how interested Caroline Kennedy really is in becoming a U.S. senator the way her father was, and her two celebrated uncles, (Robert was actually a Senator from New York when he was assassinated in 1968 during a run for the Presidency).

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a cousin of Caroline Kennedy, confirmed to the Associated Press late Friday that she was "interested" in the seat, but national party operatives cautioned that the process of picking a replacement for Clinton remains in its early stages.

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Sometimes life takes a creative leap that's almost miraculous. Nobody knows how this happens, and it can never be predicted. You'd never know, looking at a reptile's round, hard, shiny scales, that they could genetically morph into feathers.

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One of the aspects of the Barack Obama candidacy that raised my hopes and those of so many of my fellow ScienceBloggers, as well as scientists tired of the crass politicization of science under the Bush administration, was the prospect of an Administration in which science and re …

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An interesting video from Ed Driscoll examines the art and culture of the 1960s radical chic through the examination of the movie "Bonnie and Clyde"

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Comparing him to her late husband Robert F. Kennedy, Ethel Kennedy stumped for Barack Obama in New Hampshire with grandson Matt Kennedy who has been campaigning for Obama full-time for months now.

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Orange County GOP congressman suspects conspiracy in RFK assassination while high-profile lawyer for convicted killer Sirhan Sirhan seeks a new trial. Pasadena's Sirhan Sirhan has lived the past 40 years in state prison insisting he is innocent of murdering Robert F.

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All around me, a million cops in their absurd post-9/11 space-combat get-ups stand guard as @!$%#s in papier-mache puppet heads scramble around for one last moment of network face time before the coverage goes dark.

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Edwin O. Guthman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper reporter and editor and an aide to Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy during the civil rights struggles of the early 1960s, died Sunday in Los Angeles. He was 89.

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This article is also posted at mybarackobama website here:

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A courageous and exceptional investigation of the facts surrounding the assassination of RFK. The connections contained within are shocking and disturbingly real.

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Kennedy's assassin was a Palestinian resident of Silwan in East Jerusalem, Sirhan Bishara Sirhan. He chose to kill Kennedy on that exact date because it coincided with the first anniversary of Israel's stunning victory during the Six-Day War.

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How to mark the fortieth anniversary of Bobby Kennedy's death?

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Forty years ago today, on June 5, 1968, Robert F. Kennedy had just won the California Democratic primary, a major boost in his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.

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Thought-provoking essay which considers Obama's candidacy in context.

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Barack Obama denounces remark, then says to "put it behind us" Hillary Clinton's camp says Obama intentionally stoking controversy Clinton says in editorial she knows the odds are against her getting nomination

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Hillary continues to stumble. Her latest mistake is pointing to RFK's assasination in June as the resaon why she won't drop out of the race.

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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign accused Sen. Barack Obama's campaign of fanning a controversy over her describing the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy late in the 1968 Democratic primary as one reason she is continuing to run for the presidency.

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