Kennedy is seeking to lead a $1.7 trillion agency that will oversee vaccine recommendations as well as food inspections and health insurance.
Kennedy had been hospitalized after suffering a stroke in her sleep on Oct. 3, her family said.
Maryland police have recovered the body of eight-year-old Gideon McKean, the great-grandson of Robert F. Kennedy.
Authorities are searching for the daughter and a grandson of former Maryland Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend after a canoe they were paddling in the Chesapeake Bay didn’t return to shore.
Sirhan Sirhan, imprisoned for more than 50 years for the 1968 assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, is back inside a California prison about a day after being attacked by another inmate and hospitalized.
Robert F. Kennedy's granddaughter, Saoirse (SUR'-shuh) Kennedy Hill, has died at 22.
The Connecticut Supreme Court has vacated Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel's murder conviction and ordered a new trial in connection with a 1975 killing in wealthy Greenwich.