Topic - John F. Kennedy

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  Coroner: RFK Jr.'s estranged wife died from hanging

  The estranged wife of Robert Kennedy Jr. died of asphyxiation due to hanging, a medical examiner in suburban New York said Thursday.

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  BOOK REVIEW: 'The Passage of Power'

  Robert A. Caro has spent much of his life writing about the political monument who was Lyndon Baines Johnson, a man of whom he is sharply criti- cal yet of whom he often stands in reluctant awe.

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  BOOK REVIEW: 'The Presidents Club'

  In this well-written and highly readable account of presidential interrelations, we're told by Time magazine veterans Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy that the idea for what they call "The Presidents Club" was born at the end of World War II, when Harry S. Truman tapped Herbert Hoover to lead the effort to stave off starvation in Europe.

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  Lawyer: Edwards knew money was for his benefit

  The lawyer for a wealthy heiress who provided secret payments intended to help John Edwards testified Friday that the former presidential candidate acknowledged the money had been given for his benefit.

• American Scene: Facebook makes it easier to become organ donor

  Facebook users in the United States and the United Kingdom can enroll as organ donors via links to official registries on the world's biggest social networking site, said CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

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  LAMBRO: Folly of finer slices to the economic pie

  Somewhere between the New Frontier and the Age of Obama, the Democrats turned fiercely anti-capitalism, anti-business, anti-wealth and anti-success.

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  Get Out: Playhouse Puppetry Slam

  When used as an adjective, the word "adult" often is synonymous with seedy. But put it in front of the word "puppetry," and the meaning changes.

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  PAUL: Dodging destructive union rules

  In June 2011, the National Labor Relations Board (NRLB) proposed new regulations that would do grave harm to small business, while simultaneously empowering organized labor unions. The regulations introduced by the Obama administration's NLRB would drastically shorten the union election process, encouraging one-sided campaigns.

• NYC photo exhibit captures Warhol as young artist

  Andy Warhol once predicted 15 minutes of fame for everyone.

• Kitty Kelley writes 'heartwarming' text on Kennedy

  Kitty Kelley's next book project will be "heartwarming." Promise.

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  PRUDEN: The big day for Swiss cheese, or the tax code

  Life is unfair, as John F. Kennedy famously observed. That might not have been the most memorable thing he ever said, but it's probably the most quoted, and when better to repeat it than on the last day for Americans to file their federal income tax returns.

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  BOOK REVIEW: 'Once Upon a Secret'

  Even if you have a low tolerance for kiss-and-tell books about famous people, as I do, you might want to take a look at this one. The story it tells is undeniably sensational and the facts tawdry. In the hands of a salacious writer trying to cash in on notoriety, it would be a most unsavory dish.

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  FIELDS: Santorum loses the conservative trail

  Rick Santorum is making social conservatives look bad. While President Obama sets off class warfare and exploits natural income inequality, Mr. Santorum appeals to the lowest common denominator of social values in reckless pursuit of a winning political formula.

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  PRUDEN: The ignorance of Rick Santorum

  There's a tiny priest living in Rick Santorum's trim, toned body, struggling to get out. The rogue priest escaped Sunday and said foolish things. The candidate most admired for plain speech made it plain and clear that he doesn't believe in the wall between church and state and doesn't think much of John F. Kennedy for saying he did.

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  Santorum benefits from mistaken religious identity

  Rick Santorum's political good fortune in the Republican presidential primaries has come about in large part because of his appeal to evangelicals. A Roman Catholic, he is a beneficiary of more than two decades of cooperation between conservative Protestants and Catholics who set aside theological differences for the common cause of the culture war.

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