July 26, 2010
Updated Jul 26, 2010 at 2:19 PM PDT
NBC News confirms that Sen. Ted Kennedy died shortly before midnight Tuesday at his home in Hyannis Port, Mass., at age 77.
The man known as the "liberal lion of the Senate" had fought a more than year-long battle with brain cancer, and according to his son, had lived longer with the disease than his doctors expected him to.
Sen. Kennedy, the youngest Kennedy brother who was left to head the family's political dynasty after his brothers President John F. Kennedy and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy were assassinated.
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