Pennsylvania senator Arlen Specter, one of the few true moderate Republicans in the Senate, has announced that he will switch to the Democratic Party and run for reelection as a Democrat in 2010. This ...

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., says he will ask Supreme Court justice nominee John Roberts dignified, appropriate and probing questions about such topics as the role of ...

Former U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, the outspoken Pennsylvania centrist whose switch from Republican to Democrat ended a 30-year career in which he played a pivotal role in several Supreme Court ...

Former Sen. Arlen Specter, the longest serving senator in Pennsylvania history, died on Sunday from complications of non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. The 82-year-old legislator, whose career took him from the ...

Former U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, a Philadelphian who played a key role in many Supreme Court nominations, has died. He was 82. Son Shanin Specter said his father died Sunday morning at ...

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Former Senator Arlen Specter, a major political figure in Pennsylvania and Washington for more than four decades, is once again fighting cancer, his office said Tuesday. A ...

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.

Former Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter, who died Sunday of cancer at age 82, leaves a complex political legacy behind – one that has flummoxed both parties in a career that spanned nearly 50 years.

Even after nearly two decades in the Senate, Specter hadn’t lost any of his ability to confound — or court controversy. In 1998, he voted “not proven” rather than “not guilty” in the impeachment trial ...

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., announced Wednesday that he has Hodgkin’s disease but expects to continue to work in the Senate while being treated. Subscribe to read this ...

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-PA) will head that panel's hearings on the nomination of John Roberts to the Supreme Court. A moderate Republican, Specter often finds himself at ...

A week after switching parties, Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter is still trying to fit in as a Democrat. He has moved his desk in the Senate chamber across the aisle. He has gone from ranking ...