Sen. Arlen Specter’s independence elevated him to history-maker — and ultimately ended his career. WASHINGTON (JTA) — During his 30 years in the clubby confines of the U.S. Senate ...

Arlen Specter, the longtime moderate Jewish Republican senator from Pennsylvania whose surprise party switch helped pass President Obama’s health-care reforms, has died. WASHINGTON (JTA ...

There were few places Arlen Specter couldn’t go in the summer of ... wedged against the curb,” Allen wrote in Crash, the 1989 book he co-authored about his life. “To move it, I had to ...