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Louisiana Republican U.S. Sen. John Kennedy made the outrageous remark during a heated exchange.
September 18, 2024
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Louisiana Republican U.S. Sen. John Kennedy made the outrageous remark during a heated exchange.
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Senators Edward Kennedy and Barack Obama both included gays and lesbians in their speeches during the event Monday at which Kennedy endorsed Obama in his presidential bid. Obama's inclusion of LGBT people came while he was discussing the legacy of hope that both John and Robert Kennedy inspired in people: "And it lives on in those Americans -- young and old, rich and poor, black and white, Latino and Asian and Native American, gay and straight -- who are tired of a politics that divides us and want to recapture the sense of common purpose that we had when John Kennedy was president of the United States of America."
President John F. Kennedy was killed in Dallas 50 years ago, leaving behind a mourning nation and his gay best friend, Lem Billings.
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Sen. Edward M. Kennedy endorsed Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination on Monday as a "man with extraordinary gifts of leadership and character" and a worthy heir to his brother, John F. Kennedy, who is still revered among Democrats four decades after his assassination. "I feel change in the air," Kennedy said in prepared remarks salted with scarcely veiled criticism of Obama's chief rival for the nomination, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, as well as her husband, the former president.
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The author of a new book on the complicated and consequential Kennedy and his life's work on AIDS and marginalized communities, and how he always found a partner on the other side of the aisle.
Kennedy will also honor three Iowa supreme court justices who ruled in favor of same-sex marriage.
A cancerous brain tumor caused the seizure that Sen. Edward M. Kennedy suffered over the weekend, doctors said Tuesday in a grim diagnosis for one of American politics' most enduring figures. Doctors for the Massachusetts Democrat say tests conducted after Kennedy suffered a seizure this weekend show a tumor in his left parietal lobe. Preliminary results from a biopsy of the brain identified the cause of the seizure as a malignant glioma. His treatment will be decided after more tests, but the usual course includes combinations of radiation and chemotherapy.
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Michaela Kennedy Cuomo posted on Instagram for Pride Month, describing herself as bi and sending support "to the whole spectrum of sexualities."