Here’s Thursday’s dose of what the Senate campaigns are up to and how the media world is covering them.
A Game of Chicken

Matt Viser and Frank Phillips of the Boston Globe liken the Senate race to a game of chicken in an article that assesses the risks of Michael Capuano, Stephen Pagliuca or Alan Khazei going [...]

A brief look at what’s being said about the Senate race in the political and media world.

Michael Capuano’s campaign (apparently after staring into a crystal ball) began airing a new commercial on Wednesday in which the Senate candidate vows he would “never” send more American troops to war.

All four Democratic candidates running to fill Edward M. Kennedy’s Senate seat are now advertising on television. Look at some of the ads.

The Democratic debate was a chance for the Senate candidates to introduce their campaigns to some Massachusetts residents for the first time. Political observers who watched on Monday night generally agreed that no candidate emerged as the clear victor. Here are some reactions from analysts around the state.

UNDATED — A 6.6 magnitude earthquake rocked western Indonesia Thursday, following an offshore quake Wednesday that devastated the region and killed hundreds of people. Residents in Padang, the city that suffered the most damage, raced to rescue survivors from the rubble. View a slideshow.

BOSTON — For people in Massachusetts, the loss of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy is personal. We spoke a few of the thousands of mourners who gathered to pay respects at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Dorchester, where Sen. Kennedy’s body lay in repose Thursday.