Doctors for Senator Edward Kennedy tell the AP the 76-year-old has a malignant brain tumor. He had suffered a seizure on Saturday, and the tumor was discovered when the doctors performed tests and is believed to be the cause of the seizure. His family rushed to his side at the Massachusetts General over the weekend, including niece Caroline Kennedy. The Senator and Caroline Kennedy notably threw their support behind Barack Obama's presidential nomination bid in......

Photograph of President Bush, with Vice President Dick Cheney and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi in the background, delivering the State of the Union by Ron Edmonds/AP President George Bush gave his final State of the Union address, sounding positive about his leadership but also noting that there's still more to do: "From expanding opportunity to protecting our country, we have made good progress. Yet we have unfinished business before us, and the......

We tread on DCist's turf ever so lightly: Proving that even though war, disaster, and domestic issues are broiling, there's also time for cute animals, the President and First Lady introduced their new puppy, a Scottish terrier named Miss Beazley (after a character in The Enormous Egg), to the world. White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan announced the arrival during today's press briefing, saying, "Then, following [a meeting about class action lawsuits], the President and......

Brooklyn is buzzing over rumors that Caroline Kennedy, husband Edwin Schlossberg, and their kids are moving to Park Slope from the Upper East Side. While there's "no comment" from the family, Brooklyn's biggest booster, Borough President Marty Markowitz, had some:Brooklyn, home to everyone from everywhere, is proud to be the new home of the Kennedys. Park Slope: It ain't Cape Cod, but it's starting to look a lot like Camelot.Park Slope residents are used to......

The White House website is so smart: Since the most popular part of WhiteHouse.gov was the Barney cam that followed First Scottish Terrier Barney Bush around, the White House developed another Barney film, Barney Cam II: Barney Reloaded last week. While the White House, tongue–in–cheek, says it has a "more complicated plot," and the Times' Elizabeth Bumiller points out that the first video had no plot. It's certainly worth watching, if only to see Andy......

Everyone is excited, rightly so, about the donation from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to NYC public schools: $51.2 million to open 67 small high schools. Large failing high schools would be turned into smaller theme-based schools so students will get more personalized attention, an effort to curb the dropout rate as well as failures to meet the state's student standards. It seems some were more amused by other factors: - The sight of......