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BOSTON (AP) — Sen. Elizabeth Warren has found an unusual ally in her criticism of Donald Trump's choice for education secretary. The Massachusetts Charter Public School Association sent a letter to the Massachusetts Democrat Monday raising concerns about Trump's nomination of Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is visiting the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to talk about climate change. A State Department news release says Kerry is scheduled to deliver a speech 10:30 a.m. on Monday on topics including "the global transition to a
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BOSTON (AP) — U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren says she's troubled by the record of Donald Trump's pick for education secretary. The Massachusetts Democrat said Betsy DeVos' advocacy for school choice and charter schools amounts to support for policies that would drain taxpayer dollars from public
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BOSTON (AP) — Tens of thousands of drivers for ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft will begin undergoing what Massachusetts officials are calling the most stringent background checks for the industry in the United States. The checks, set to launch Friday, are designed in part to make sure a driver isn'
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is traveling to the Capitol to give congressional Democrats advice on how to combat the Republican drive to dismantle his health care overhaul. Vice President-elect Mike Pence is meeting with GOP lawmakers to discuss the best way to send Obama's cherished law to
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BOSTON (AP) — As marijuana shops sprout in states that have legalized the drug, they face a critical stumbling block — lack of access to the kind of routine banking services other businesses take for granted. U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, is leading an effort to make sure vendors
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BOSTON (AP) — A self-driving car is hitting the streets of Boston for the first time. The state has given the green light to Cambridge-based company nuTonomy Inc. to start testing a self-driving car in a small section of the city beginning Tuesday.
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BOSTON (AP) — More than half of the adults entering state-licensed, residential addiction treatment centers in Massachusetts do not complete their treatment programs and one in eight are readmitted within a month of being discharged, according to a new state report. The findings from a special commission created to study the