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The Bay State's senior senator won't be on the presidential ballot this year, but on the Saturday before the Democratic National Convention she appeared with President Barack Obama for his weekly radio address. Obama and U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren praised one another's strength
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PHILADELPHIA — Before boarding an evening cruise on the Delaware River, Massachusetts Democrats praised their party chairwoman's decision to step aside, hoping the move would calm the faction of the party loyal to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz had been a target
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CLEVELAND — Calling GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump a "home run" and his wife Melania "an image of Jackie Kennedy," a friend and top advisor to the last Republican nominee for president said Thursday that any doubts over Trump's character or lingering worries about his
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STATE HOUSE — Attorney General Maura Healey's announcement Wednesday that she would step up enforcement of the state's assault weapons ban, focusing on what she described as "copycat" guns, swiftly generated backlash from gun owners, dealers and activists who are viewing the move as an
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STATE HOUSE — Presenting a broad reform agenda for the second year of the MBTA's Fiscal and Management Control Board's existence, Gov. Charlie Baker said the agency should shift its pension management to the state's fund managers and continue to look for opportunities to privatize
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Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth last month were awarded a patent for technology they say could reduce the costs of fishing vessel monitoring, a cost fisherman say threatens their livelihood, the school announced this week. Dr. Brian Rothschild, the retired founding head of the UMass-Dartmouth School of Marine
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STATE HOUSE — As the University of Massachusetts student swept the hallways of the Supreme Judicial Court during summer break in the early 1980s, he had no inkling that he would be angling to return to those hallways some three decades later. If David Lowy does work at Pemberton Square again,
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BEACHWOOD, OHIO — The Massachusetts delegation to the Republican National Convention needed little introduction to their guest on Tuesday morning. Everyone already knew his name. John Ratzenberger, better known as his mailman character Cliff Clavin from Cheers, has been a vocal proponent of vocational and technical education outside of his acting