AP - Rep. Howard Berman keeps a big Thermos behind his desk. That way, he never has to ask anyone to fetch coffee for him.

AP - As head of the deep-pocketed Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, New York Sen. Charles Schumer hand-picked his party's nominee to take on Oregon Sen. Gordon Smith, the last Republican standing on the West Coast.

AP - Source says Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts hospitalized with apparent stroke-like symptoms.

AFP - US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Saturday promised Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki renewed US support as his troops pressed a major crackdown on Al-Qaeda jihadists, officials said.

AFP - US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi discussed Iraq's upcoming provincial elections and security issues during a flying visit to Baghdad, officials said Sunday.

AFP - US Senator Edward Kennedy, a Democratic Party icon and scion of a powerful political dynasty, was in hospital Sunday undergoing a series of tests after suffering a seizure.

AFP - The powerful US gun lobby has painted the 2008 presidential race as a showdown over the right to bear arms, but the election could also prove to be a key test of its political firepower.

AP - 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.

AP - The political fortunes of Democrats down South once were so bad that people openly joked even Jesus Christ would lose by a double-digit margin if he ran for office on the party's ticket.

AP - Being dead since 1940 hasn't kept Idaho U.S. Sen. William Borah from being inserted squarely into 2008 presidential politics after Democratic candidate Barack Obama took issue with President Bush's borrowing of a quote from Borah.