(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.

Arlen Specter likes it when he’s described as the best lawyer in the Senate; there are a lot of lawyers in its chambers. Specter, 79, particularly enjoys his reputation as someone who will go wherever ...

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.

In wake of Specter's defection, Republican Party considers the size of its tent May 1, 2009— -- The defection of Arlen Specter from the GOP to the Democratic Party this week has revived a ...

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 ...

Plenty of people succeed in politics by being everyone’s friend. It takes a special talent to make it as a guy whom allies call “abrasive,” “brutal” and “prosecutorial.” Republican Arlen Specter of ...

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 ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Former Sen. Arlen Specter, who has already survived two bouts of Hodgkin’s disease, is now battling non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, according to his son’s law firm. A statement released ...

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 ...

As we listened to our recording of Pennsylvania's senior senator give his assessment of the State of the Union hours before President Bush is do the same, we half expected him to break out into the ...

When Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter announced on April 28 that he was switching to the Democratic Party after nearly four decades as an elected Republican, it marked a messy and shocking end to ...

Obama's nomination of Elena Kagan has left Senator Arlen Specter in quite a bind. When the Pennsylvania Democrat was a Republican, he opposed her nomination for solicitor general. This stance now ...