Reuters - The U.S. Senate Banking Committee approved legislation on Tuesday that could save a half million homeowners from foreclosure and help stabilize the nation's rattled housing market.

AP - Edward M. Kennedy, Robert Byrd, Arlen Specter — fighters and history-makers all. Their battles with age and illness are the hallmarks of the nation's oldest-ever Senate and reminders of the fragility of power.

AP - With the Democratic U.S. Senate nomination secure, the speaker of the Oregon House is turning his attention to defeating the sole GOP senator on the West Coast this fall.

AFP - Veteran US Senator Edward Kennedy left hospital Wednesday giving a thumbs up to waiting supporters a day after doctors announced he had a malignant brain tumor.

AFP - Veteran US Senator Edward Kennedy is "doing pretty well" in hospital after suffering a seizure this weekend but must still undergo some tests, one of his Democratic colleagues said Sunday.

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.

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.