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A leading Democratic candidate for an open Congressional seat in the Merrimack Valley is sponsoring a resolution calling on Congress to limit the president's authority to use nuclear weapons. State Senator Barbara L'Italien (D-Andover) is the lead sponsor of SD 248, a proposed Massachusetts Senate resolution
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Exit polls suggest that voters in the Republic of Ireland have voted about two-to-one to allow abortion. Abortion has been illegal in Ireland since long before most of the island achieved independence in 1922. A 1983 amendment to the republic's constitution guaranteed the right to life for unborn
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Abigail Johnson, president and chief executive officer of Fidelity Investments, is the richest person in Massachusetts, with a net worth of $16.9 billion, according to Forbes Magazine. Forbes released a list of the richest person in each state.
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Massachusetts governor Charlie Baker suffers from a lack of getup-and-go, one of his predecessors said. "Charlie's a nice guy. I just don't think he has that sense of urgency that I'd like to see in a governor," said former governor Michael Dukakis,
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Legal sports betting could be coming to Massachusetts, now that the U.S. Supreme Court has struck down a federal law banning states from allowing it. The federal Supreme Court issued a ruling Monday morning overturning the federal Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992 on a 7-2 vote,
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Republicans are turning children into Nazis, according to a Mother's Day video released by a left-wing political action committee funded by a San Francisco billionaire. The 56-second video depicts a mother describing her son going from stealing weaker kids' money in middle school to protesting against abortion
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Republican U.S. Senate candidate Geoff Diehl rode along with undercover state troopers in a gang unit and saw them arrest six suspected crack cocaine dealers, a campaign spokesman said. Diehl, a state representative from Whitman, said if he's elected he'll continue doing ride-alongs with law
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Private housing is too expensive in American cities, public housing is ailing, and the way to fix the problem is to spend $70 billion over the next five years to improve government housing developments, several prominent Democrats said Monday. Three members of Congress and Boston Mayor Marty Walsh made an