WASHINGTON, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., was released from a Washington-area hospital Thursday where he was admitted after falling in his home, his office said.

MCLEAN, Va., Sept. 22 (UPI) -- Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., the longest-serving senator in U.S. history, was taken by ambulance to the hospital after falling down Tuesday, his spokesman said.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy suffered a seizure brought on by fatigue during a luncheon honoring newly installed President Barack Obama, doctors said.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- Robert Byrd, the longest-serving senator in U.S. history, voluntarily gave up his chairmanship of the Senate Appropriations Committee Friday.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 (UPI) -- U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., is moving to ease 90-year-old Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., out of a top Senate leadership position, sources say.

WASHINGTON, July 23 (UPI) -- Billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars have been lost or wasted in Afghanistan and Iraq, the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee said.

WASHINGTON, July 10 (UPI) -- The U.S. Senate voted Thursday to confirm Gen. David Petraeus as head of Central Command and Gen. Ray Odierno to Petraeus's former post in Iraq.

WASHINGTON, May 20 (UPI) -- Senate colleagues extended their support and well-wishes to Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., who has been diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor.

WASHINGTON, May 12 (UPI) -- This week the continuing saga of the Democratic primaries means that presidential politics is likely to dominate the news agenda again. But there are some issues and events on the homeland and national security issue list that might make the inside pages.