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Turnout will be key for Tuesday's special election to fill the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's seat. Republican Scott Brown and Democrat Martha Coakley crisscross the state for support.

In the final moments of a U.S.

Paul G. Kirk Jr., the former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, will replace the late Ted Kennedy in the Senate until a special election is held in January, sources told FOX News.

Massachusetts could have a new U.S. senator by the end of the week.

As a soft twilight fell over the nation's capital, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy was laid to his final rest Saturday in a ceremony on a sloping site in Arlington National Cemetery.

Kennedy persevered through tragedy to become one of the country's great legislators and as the "rock" of an American dynasty.

Mourners for Senator Edward M. Kennedy gathered in long lines around the presidential library in Boston.

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the liberal lion of the Senate and haunted bearer of the Camelot torch after two of his brothers fell to assassins' bullets, has died at his home in Hyannis Port after battling a brain tumor. He was 77.

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has been released from the hospital after suffering a seizure during an inaugural luncheon.