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Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley (L) talks to campaign aides during a rehearsal in Boston, Massachusetts, December 8, 2009, for her Democratic primary election night event in the race for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the death of Edward Kennedy. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

Coakley wins primary for Kennedy's Senate seat

Reuters - Tue Dec 8, 10:50 PM

BOSTON (Reuters) - Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley on Tuesday won the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by the death Senator Edward Kennedy, who died in August of brain cancer.

  • President Barack Obama delivers remarks at Lehigh Carbon Community College in Allentown, Pennsylvania, December 4, 2009. REUTERS/Jim Young
    Obama pushes plans for more job creation Reuters - 1 hour, 5 minutes ago

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Tuesday offered modest steps to spur jobs and defended his push to get the U.S. economy growing, amid deep public dismay over double-digit unemployment that has eroded his popularity.

  • Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai (R) and US Defence Secretary Robert Gates at a joint press conference at the Presidential Palace in Kabul on December 8. Photo:Massoud Hossaini/AFP
    Gates tells troops in Afghanistan success in reach AFP - 1 hour, 24 minutes ago

    KABUL (AFP) - US Defence Secretary Robert Gates on Wednesday toured the nerve centre of NATO command in Afghanistan, telling soldiers that success was in reach, despite the worsening eight-year war with the Taliban.

  • Jody Thompson (L) and partner Jesse Adams listen to speakers at a rally in support of legalization of gay marriage at the Unitarian Church in Montclair, New Jersey, October 25, 2006. REUTERS/Jeff Zelevansky
    NJ vote on gay marriage could shape battles ahead Reuters - 1 hour, 26 minutes ago

    TRENTON (Reuters) - The legalization of same-sex marriage faces a critical test in New Jersey this week that advocates on each side of the controversial issue argue will shape the fate of gay-marriage battles across the nation.

  • Runoff set in Birmingham, Alabama, mayor race Reuters - 1 hour, 44 minutes ago

    BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - A race to elect a new mayor in Birmingham, Alabama, a U.S. city at the heart of a county troubled by a municipal debt crisis, went to a run-off on Tuesday.

  • A sign explains the procedure for going through the whole body scan machine, or millimeter wave machine as passengers wait in line at a security check point at the Salt Lake International Airport in Salt Lake City, Utah, March 10, 2009. REUTERS/George Frey
    U.S. airport screening secrets posted online Reuters - 1 hour, 47 minutes ago

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Transportation Security Administration accidentally posted a document online containing secrets related to airport passenger screening practices, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday.


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