(AP) – Reaction to the death of former U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, who died Sunday: “He was a mentor, colleague and a political institution, and on a personal level, he was my first boss.

Former Republican Senator Arlen Specter passed away on Sunday morning at the age of 82. His son said he lost his battle with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Living up to his reputation as a hard guy to keep ...

Arlen Specter, the former senator from Pennsylvania who stunned both parties on Capitol Hill in 2009 when he announced he would switch his party allegiance to Democrat after 42 years as a Republican, ...

Senate Democratic primary is a test of the anti-Washington sentiment. May 18, 2010— -- Voters across Pennsylvania today started casting their votes in the Senate primary race that could become a ...

If you're a Pats fan, and you were hoping that the closer we got to the Super Bowl, the more we'd forget about SpyGate, then you'd probably like to throw something heavy at Senator Arlen Specter right ...

RACHEL MARTIN, BYLINE: This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Rachel Martin. Longtime Republican Senator Arlen Specter has died. The GOP firebrand made headlines in 2009 when he switched parties.

Tuesday’s primary election results will only serve to reinforce the anti-incumbency narrative that has overlaid much of the media coverage of this election season thus far. According to the polls and ...

Sen. Arlen Specter, the canny old fox of Pennsylvania politics, got carried away last Wednesday in the flush of an easy fifth-term victory and revealed too much of what he really thinks. He clearly ...

WASHINGTON ? Veteran Republican Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania abruptly switched parties Tuesday, a move intended to boost his re-election chances that also pushed Democrats within one seat of a ...

CNN is reporting that former Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter is gravely ill and suffering from a "serious" form of cancer that "flared up" on Monday night. The news comes from unnamed sources and ...