London, Dec 30 : Caroline Kennedy's bid to claim Hillary Clinton''s Senate seat suffered a blow when she stumbled and repeated ''you know'' 142 times during an interview.

The 51-year-old daughter of the assassinated John F. Kennedy stumbled badly, fuelling comparisons to Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's disastrous interview with Katie Couric of CBS News.

Washington, December 30 : Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's teenage daughter Bristol has given birth to a son.

This comes months after the announcement of 18-year-old's pregnancy became one of the first dark clouds to swirl over Palin's 2008 Republican vice-presidential candidacy.

Bristol gave birth to Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston on Sunday. The baby 7 pounds, 4 ounces.

New York, Dec 19 : Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's first grandchild is a boy, her father Chuck Heath has revealed.

Bristol Palin, 18, has a due date of December 20, Heath told Grandparents. com about his pregnant granddaughter.

The grandfather was asked what name Bristol and the child's father, Levi Johnston, had decided upon.

"Oscar . . . No, I''m just kidding. They don''t have a name for it yet," the New York Post quoted him as saying.

Juneau (Alaska, US), Dec. 16 : Alaska Governor Sarah Palin said Monday that she is "suspicious" of a fire that destroyed her church over the weekend in her hometown Wasilla.

"It became pretty obvious near the very beginning of this whole episode that this was suspicious because there were just too many things taking place that evening," Palin told Fox News host Greta Van Susteren on her show "On the Record."

Wasilla (Alaska, US), Dec. 16 : A member of Sarah Palin''s church in he hometown Wasilla has aid that the spirits of its congregants has lifted in the wake of it being destroyed by a fire.

Though Palin was not at the Wasilla Bible Church when the fire broke out last Friday, but she visited it the day after.

Wasilla (Alaska, US), Dec. 15 : A church that was once visited vy Alaska Governor and 2008 Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin was badly damaged by a fire late Friday night and early Saturday morning.

According to the local television station 2News KTUU, the blaze at the Wasilla Bible Church broke out as a group of women were making crafts inside.

Palin''s spokesperson, Bill McAllister, issued a statement on her behalf after she visited the church on Saturday.