During his 30-plus years in the Senate, Arlen Specter earned a reputation as a tough guy. But I got a rare glimpse of his kinder, gentler side. As a journalist who covered him over the years, I did my ...

He switched from Republican to Democrat in 2009. Oct. 14, 2012— -- Arlen Specter, the former senator from Pennsylvania who stunned both parties on Capitol Hill in 2009 when he announced he would ...

PENN VALLEY, Pa. – Arlen Specter was remembered Tuesday as a fiercely determined fighter who stared down corruption as a Philadelphia prosecutor, battled both parties during 30 tumultuous years in the ...

Former U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, who embodied a vanishing breed of liberal Republicanism before switching to the Democratic Party at the twilight of his political career, died Sunday after a long ...

The bike we have here is called the Specter 1, and it’s classified as a speed pedelec, which upon doing some digging, I discovered means that it’s capable of hitting speeds up to 28 miles per hour, ...

For years, Senator Arlen Specter, Republican from Pennsylvania, has been a moderate in a right-moving party. A relationship that came under considerable strain during the Bush years may have finally ...

Former Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter — who served as a Republican in the Senate from 1980 until he switched allegiance to the Democratic Party in 2009 and lost his primary the following year — died ...

Arlen Specter, reviled by the right, mistrusted by the left and ever unpredictable, was nonetheless a major force in the U.S. Senate for three decades. He cast what were often crucial votes on ...

Some ebikes look very much like regular bikes, and offer regular-bike-like motor-assisted top speeds. Others, however, really lean into the whole high-tech, high-performance, "transportation of the ...

Former Sen. Arlen Specter (Pa.) writes in a new book that President Obama ditched him in the 2010 election after he helped Obama win the biggest legislative victory of his term by passing healthcare ...