John Kerry News

The White House announced Wednesday that President Barack Obama will attend U.N.-sponsored climate talks next month in Copenhagen and commit the United States to specific targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

After the U.S. House of Representatives passed cap-and-trade legislation earlier this year by a thin seven-vote margin earlier this year , the possibility that it could become law seemed like it was a real one.

Paul Kirk never figured to upstage the legend whose death paved his road to the Senate.

President Barack Obama will travel to Copenhagen for climate-change talks, where hea ll offer to cut U.S. emissions about 17 percent by 2020 in an effort to help break a deadlock between rich and poor nations.

The president is expected to travel to the United Nations summit on Dec. 9 before heading to Oslo to accept his Nobel Peace Prize.

U.S. senators are pressuring European antitrust regulators to hurry their investigation of Oracle Corp.'s proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems Inc., citing Sun's "precarious" financial condition and fears about more layoffs at the struggling computing company.

David McKean, a former chief of staff for Sen. John Kerry, has been named the new chief executive of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation.

Sen. Lindsey Graham , center, accompanied by Sen. John Kerry left, and Sen. Joe Lieberman gestures during a news conference to discuss climate change on Capitol Hil.

Prosecutors say John Kerry's eldest daughter won't be charged with drunken driving in Los Angeles.

Massachusetts voters will have to wait until Jan. 19 to elect a successor to Sen.

Word is leaking out from the Hill about the Senate's HCR bill. The bill will be posted sometime this evening online at democrats.senate.gov . In the meantime, these are the rough outlines that have appeared as various senators spoke with reporters after their caucus meeting this evening.

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U.S. Senator John Kerry's elder daughter, Alexandra, who made a red-carpet splash at the Cannes film festival five years ago in a see-through dress, was arrested in Hollywood on Thursday on suspicion of drunken driving.

The daughter of Sen. John Kerry has been arrested in Hollywood for allegedly driving drunk.

WASHINGTON a ' The international security company formerly called Blackwater Worldwide is facing large government fines for unlicensed arms shipments to Iraq, as a key congressional committee is asking for a separate investigation into whether the company bribed Iraqi officials.

U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham often receives verbal slaps from the more conservative voices in South Carolina's GOP, but a recent censure by the Charleston County Republican Party's executive committee is more like a slap in the face.

A bipartisan a oeframeworka to combat climate change may be reached in the U.S. Senate before global meetings in Copenhagen next month to craft a new treaty on global warming, Senator Joe Lieberman said.

Say what you will about the Tea Partiers, they know how to shake things up. Along with like-minded Republicans such as Sarah Palin, they drove GOP candidate Dede Scozzafava out of the race for New York's 23rd Congressional District because of her moderate views on abortion and gay marriage.

By teeing up a public battle over abortion in the health care bill now before the Senate, Congressional Democrats could be risking more than just the fate of the legislation.

When pastor Brandon T. Crowley talked politics during Sunday services after the local elections earlier this month at Myrtle Baptist Church, the congregation erupted in shouts of "hallelujah'' and exultant clapping as members of this predominantly African-American congregation considered their unusual political lineup: a newly elected black mayor, ...